Schulanlage Im Birch, Zurich, 2000, Competition 2nd Prize
Multivalent reliefs
In the transforming industrial estate, the project proposes two large, low building complexes that avoid regular eaves heights as a reference to the existing industrial buildings. Instead, an expression of the public facility is achieved using multivalent reliefs, while building volumes are graduated towards the open spaces and the adjoining F.T.Wahlen-Park.
The allocation of the upper- and lower-grade institutions to two separate building complexes remember industrial estates that have developed over time. Each complex has three buildings: a school building with classrooms, a hall building with large spaces such as sports halls, a canteen and a singing hall, and an infrastructural building with an entrance lobby, inner courtyard and special rooms.
The façade walls and the perimeter walls of the open areas are made of clinker brick and merge smoothly into each other. Inside them, the different buildings have varying load-bearing structures. The flooring and interior spaces are differentiated by varying pastel tones.
Address
Margrit-Rainer-Strasse 5, 8050 Zurich
Commission
School building
Procedure
Competition 2000, 2. Prize
Team
Andreas Derrer, Lorenzo Giuliani, Christian Hönger