Portfolio Laura Haenni February 2014
CV Laura Haenni
Master of Science ETH in Architecture
fall 2013
Diploma at ETH Zürich under Professor Tom Emerson
spring 2013
semester under Professor Peter Märkli
fall 2012
semester under Professor Adam Caruso
spring 2012
practical experience post BSc at 6a architects in London for 6 months
fall 2011
semester under Professor Tom Emerson
Bachelor of Science ETH in Architecture
spring 2011
semester under Professors Buchner Bründler
fall 2010
semester under Professor Tony Fretton
spring 2010
practical experience pre BSc at huggenbergerfries architekten in Zürich for 6 months
2008
second year course under professor Wolfgang Schett
2007
academic studies of architecture at the ETH Zürich first year course under Professors Marc Angélil and Annette Spiro
2002 - 2006
grammar school in Zürich with the emphasis on modern languages German, English, French, Italian
1999 - 2002
secondary school in Zürich
1993 - 1999
primary school in Zürich
December 1986
born in Zürich Switzerland
Kluspark Gardens fall semester 2013 Professor: Tom Emerson
bird’s view of the site
The Site of Kluspark is the aggregate result of a series of adjacent gardens enclosing an open and uninterrupted verdant landscape. Each garden is carefully manicured and has a distinct character that reflects its use and ownership. These include a care home for the elderly, a home for sisters of the former catholic hospital, the sculpture garden, and a number of private residences. For the most part, the subdivision of Kluspark is carefully choreographed and demarcated using a variety of
current view into the park from Streulistrasse
different soft edges and textures. The surrounding buildings provide a hard edge, which is vital in forming this diverse array of heterogeneous gardens and open green space into a single civic park. However, on Kluspark’s southern edge the open field bleeds abruptly onto Streulistrasse. A few mature trees along the park’s perimeter hint at an enclosure, but fail to adequately define the park’s edge. This represents a radical and incongruous departure from the design of the rest of the park.
the garden of the care home
the sister’s garden
the sculpture garden
the garden of the private residences
A linear building and four gardens simultaneously describe a new hard edge to the southern boundary and a soft transition into the open field. Each of the gardens is given a unique character and use as either a place for relaxation, contemplation, public events or play.
neutral backdrop to the park and to highlight the new gateways into the park. This enforces a complementary and multivalent understanding of the parks different interdependent green spaces, and ensures that the park remains the focus of the whole scheme.
Four gateways announce the public entrances to the park and present carefully composed views into the gardens. The 130m long building is treated with a uniform material to both provide a serene and
A colonnade at ground level dissolves the mass of the building and helps retain the sense of a permeable ground plane. It also provides sheltered access to the dwellings, laundry, bin and bike store, and garden storage.
event garden
flower garden
water garden
play garden
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plan of the apartments 2: 4.5 room apartments of each 107 sqm + 16 sqm private outdoor space 2: 3.5 room apartments of each 80 sqm + 16 sqm private outdoor space 2: 2.5 room apartments of each 63 sqm + 16 sqm private outdoor space
The building is only one room deep. This ensures that every room enjoys spectacular dual aspect views over the park and to the south. The extreme thinness of the building coupled with the proximity of the surrounding trees and vegetation on both sides, creates the surreal experience of living embedded within the park, rather than at its edge. Cross ventilation will not only help passively cool the building during the summer months, but will subtly reinforce this experience for all the residents.
detail cross section
Large openings in the faรงade allow sunlight to penetrate the full depth of the plan and on occasion through into the gardens. Strategic planting ensures that, despite the size of these openings, the privacy of the residents is always maintained.
dining and living with a series of rooms
private outdoor space
A new housing typology for Gockhausen spring semester 2013 Professor: Peter Märkli
Between 1920 and 1970 the population of Gockhausen has increased by 13 people per year. Today this number is significantly higher - from 2004 to 2007 an average of 112 residents per year have been added to Gockhausens population. The majority of the new gained residents live in multi-family houses. From this research I am assuming an increase of at least 100 inhabitants a year over the next three years.
The strong increase shows that Gockhausen is a preferred place to live in. The combination of living in the countryside, in nature, and also close to the city center draws a large number of people to this village. But, with this growing concentration of people in Gockhausen, the very reason why it was attractive to move to is being compromised.
first idea: to build a thin ring around Gockhausen to stop expansion
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When I was growing up in Gockhausen, there were still many open fields scattered across the village. The former pastures where horses would graze have been turned into ground for new dwellings, which borrowed a typology from the city to create denser living space. Gockhausen is surrounded by forest. It forms a natural recreational area and buffer to the city.
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village square
different types of recreational areas in Gockhausen
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A thin building at the edge of the forest marks the boundary of in-
habitance and nature. Compared to neighbouring buildings the footprint of the building is kept to a minimum, and the openness of the ground floor allows for the background of the forest to still be visible at ones approach.
The southern faรงade towards the forest is very open with big loggias. Every apartment has a long row of windows accompanying a library and sitting space in front of the private bedrooms. A sequence of public to private spaces is described on the northern faรงade. From external staircases, generating a dialogue to the neighbors, one enters the apartment into an open dining / living area, which
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is shown to the outside with a big opening. The private rooms then follow in a regular rhythm. The building is constructed from columns and slabs and clad in reclaimed timber panels of different sizes depending on their availability.
plan of the apartments
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internal elevation detail
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Kunsthaus Glarus fall semester 2012 Professor: Adam Caruso team with: Meret Studer
The art museum in Glarus, a city in east central Switzerland, was built in 1952. The existing museum is made up of two buildings, where one consists of two stories of exhibition space and the other of one storey. The two spaces underneath the pitched roofs are quite similar in proportion and light. The glass roof construction provides a filter for the sunlight. Only the ground floor room provides a different type of natural lit gallery space, with its openings to either side.
We are adding a new building to this conglommerate of different spaces. While the lighting “machines� above the two almost identical existing exhibition spaces are not seen by the visitors, the new space exposes the roof structure and uses it as a hint for subdivision. Our extension should feel comfortable and appropriate in this complex but also recognizable as a new addition.
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new exhibition hall
Forst fall semester 2011 Professor: Tom Emerson assistant: Nicholas Lobo Brennan team with: Philippe Grossenbacher
Forst is a town formerly known for its manufacturing of textile goods. Today it suffers from great unemployment as all of the plants and factories have been shut down. After identifying areas of different use classes, we zoomed in to a strip between two main roads. Our site stretches from the south to the north, starting at the town church in the center and following a sequence of commercial, industrial and residential areas. We thought about our site as the conglomerate of layers, existing and to be introduced.
Existing are: streets, buildings and wasteland. Proposed are: gardens, connections and boundaries. We are suggesting a public path through the city made up of a sequence of different rooms in between our interventions. These link up to a chain of gardens with different atmospheres and dimensions.
highways and byways Paul Klee 1929
site analysis
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boundaries
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section through a flowerbed and benches
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section through a channel and a row of trees
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Los Angeles spring semester 2011 Professors: Buchner Br端ndler team with: Meret Studer
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Given the clash of social groupings on site - from the wealthy employees who work downtown, to the young families and students, and finally even the homeless - we wanted to bring these groupings together, but also give them their specific home.
The park proposes a semi-public area above ground level. To a certain extent, it connects the different groupings to a common ground, whereas the entrances to the apartments are always separated from the public.
By keeping and extending the existing market on the ground floor, we are allowing for a continued public flow through the block. Big staircases hint at a continuation of the public on an upper level.
Different typologies house different users: The tower is made up of generous one bedroom apartments with a flexible dining / living / working area, the former fire station is extended to flat shares, in the deep slab there are family homes and shelter and a bed for the homeless is provided in the last building.
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SKVR Rotterdam fall semester 2010 Professor: Tony Fretton
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The new building for the arts foundation of Rotterdam, which provides classes in dance, music and other arts for children and the amateur public, is set close to an arm of the river neue Maas. The site is adjacent to a big open playfield to the west, an eye hospital to the north, a narrow street to the east and a church to its south. As a reaction to the different situations of its direct surrounding the building develops in a continuous stepping from a lower two storey building facing the playfield, to four storeys towards the church, marking its prescence and growing into
the scale of the builngs on the back street as well as the eye hospital. The ground floor is a public area housing the cafĂŠ, the library, the shop, the auditorium and offices for staff. Two staircases lead up onto the first floor, where the circulation path is used for exhibitions and as an area for sitting and meeting visitors and fellow students. Metal lamellae provide privacy as well as protection from sunlight for the course rooms on top levels. At the meeting / exhibition areas there is a break in the lamellae pattern, suggesting a more public function.
a new building for SKVR fall semester 2010 Laura Hänni
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aging fall semester 2007 Professor: Marc AngĂŠlil assistant: Dirk Hebel team with: Lena Steiner
Our project consists of two housing units, which are fully functional on their own as well as connected together. In the area where the two units overlap, the everyday facilities are organized, such as bathrooms and the kitchen. The size of living space can therefore be adjusted to the current needs and family situations.
the dwelling becomes part of the life cycle of its inhabitants. We developped the project outside an existing context. It could be imagined to serve as a prototype, which would be adapted to local conditions.
By reacting to different situations
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floor plans
2007 childless couple sublets mobile annexe as an additional source of income
2008 birth of their first child joining of the two housing units
childrend move out separation of the two housing units
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birth of their second child
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2030 divorce of the parents
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2058 death of the parents grown up child moves in with own family
library fall semester 2007 Professor: Annette Spiro assistant: Kasia Jackowska team with: Laura Zachmann
To begin to understand the given site on campus of the ETH Zürich, we used the method of “frottage”, grinding a piece of coal on different surfaces, which had the desired structure in a 1:1 scale. The different surfaces of water, soil and trees, as well as our objet trouvé, served as inspirational sources to our library. We wanted to give the visitor the experience of a sequence of diving into
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the water, being underneath water level and arising above level again. The library becomes part of the surrounding by reflecting the water surface on its glass front. It is a small, sheltered place, where you can escape to from the busyness of everyday life.
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