time: 2024
type: open competition, cantonal school building
location: Zürich, CH
client: Stadt Zürich
status: competition
with taktyk, Marleen Clara Bauer, Schnetzer Puskas, ffbk, Wirkungsgrad Ingenieure, Boess Ingenieure
A market square in the middle of a historic town center characterized by half-timbered façades and red sandstone has lost its spatial definition due to war damage and subsequent demolition, but nevertheless enjoys constant use. The proposed market roof mediates between the two levels of the market square and the church forecourt. It also provides shade, weather protection for the market and for people to gather, as well as serving as a collector for rainwater. Based on the concept of the sponge city collected water can drain away into an unsealed square and serve as the basis for a tree canopy, which in turn protects the urban space from overheating. The new sandstone pillars are milled in the shape of tree trunks, the copper roof resembles the roof covering of the church, a simple wooden construction in between is linked to the immediacy of the half-timbered façades.
time: 2024
type: open competition
location: Bensheim, DE
client: public
status: competition
with GRIEGERHARZERDVORAK Landschaftsarchitekt*innen
Soil and water are fundamental resources of the city that need to be protected. Both are present on the site, but are hidden under asphalt. The project proposes to unseal the site over a large area and to seal less area than before with the construction of the new building. The result of ths idea is a timber construction that is almost completely elevated above the ground, rising from the terrain, with only the shelters required by building regulations in the ground. The small, naturally formed body of water is preserved and maintained as a retention and climatic area. It may not always be obvious, but even in the unused and unmanaged spaces of cities, there are complex relationships that are worth protecting.