Article source: LOCALARCHITECTURE
Context & Situation
The project consists of 220 apartments, shops, workshops and an underground car park, divided across five blocks arranged like a hand opening towards the River Glatt. This was the last plot to be built in the new Zwicky Areal district and also the one with the most complex location, nested between the motorway, a main road, the S.Bahn elevated railway and the river.
Resolving the project’s placement within this environment required arranging the five blocks precisely so that they are defined by the empty spaces separating them. The interplay of the internal courtyards sculpts the space so that all the apartments open towards the river and the centre of Zwicky Areal. Defined in this way by their external spaces, the buildings form a noise barrier for the entire neighbourhood. The semi-private courtyards are raised relative to the public space, permitting the incorporation of an underground car park that links the ensemble together.
Image Courtesy © Sereina Wirz
- Architects: LOCALARCHITECTURE
- Project: Zwicky Areal
- Location: Dubendorf, Switzerland
- Photography: Sereina Wirz, Niklaus Spoerri, Roger Rechsteiner
- Landscape architect: Haag Landschaftsarchitektur GmbH, Zürich
- Civil engineer: wlw Bauingenieure, Zürich
- Construction management: Gross AG, Grugg
- Built area – footprint (SIA 416): 35’504 m²
- Volume (SIA 416): 111’848 m³
- Conception: 2013–2016
- Realization: 2017–2020
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