Forestry Installation Building in Biel, Switzerland by bauzeit

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Sumit Singhal
Sumit Singhal loves modern architecture. He comes from a family of builders who have built more than 20 projects in the last ten years near Delhi in India. He has recently started writing about the architectural projects that catch his imagination.

Forestry Installation Building in Biel, Switzerland by bauzeit architekten

September 4th, 2014 by Sumit Singhal

Article source: bauzeit architekten

The site of the forestry center extends on both sides of the ‘Reuchenette’ road. To facilitate it’s function, the program’s content focused on only one side. Following the topography of the land, two buildings form an elongated space ending with a court for the maneuvers. The single level building dominates the main street façade and differs, both in form and aspect, from the urban architecture. Its envelope is made of rough and untreated strips of wood. It generates a oriented vertically texture, that dialogues with the forest structure and filters the light and the external views.

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Architects: bauzeit architekten
Project: Forestry Installation Building
Location: Biel, Switzerland
Software used: AutoCad 2015

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This building serves as a shelter for vehicles and machines, also serving as depository for wood material that has been extracted from the forest. Its east front marks the entrance to the warehouse and houses the retail space. The second building, on two levels, is positioned behind the first. It is covered with a simple wooden cladding, pierced with large windows.

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The ground floor houses the changing rooms, the carpentry workshop and the technical rooms, while upstairs, the administration. Located on the edge of the urban fabric between the city and the forest, the project -through its form and materiality- gives visibility to this singular institution.

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Tags: Biel, Switzerland

Categories: Autocad, Building, Office Building

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