09.12.2013 - Concepts, administrative and commercial buildings, residential buildings

ETH Science City

ETH Science City Students Housing, Competition 2012 ETH 398 Science City Students Housing uses the building site on the southern edge of the Hönggerberg as a lively interplay of "inside-outside", public, semi-public and private zones. The range of housing types on offer meets the need for different forms of student living and working as well as social interaction, communal facilities and individual retreats. The type of dissolved block as [...]

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09.12.2013 - Concepts, special buildings, administrative and commercial buildings

Aldi facade study

Façade study Aldi, 2012 Banal ? Aldi, known as a grocery chain in the low-cost segment, invites entries for a competition for the façade design of a main store with administration and parking garage in Munich. The leitmotif for the "cladding" of the existing building is the extension of the corporate identity (CI) to the corporate architecture (CA), through the transformation of the Aldi logo onto a vertical slatted façade, which [...]

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09.12.2013 - Concepts, administrative and commercial buildings

Garmisch-Partenkirchen tax office

Garmisch-Partenkirchen tax office, competition 2007 The conceptual approach lies in the balance between a rational administrative building and a satire on the complex tax system in our country. An economic and functional "tax office building" is given its own identity, its regional reference and a friendly, citizen-oriented aura through the treatment of light, its materiality (wood) and an overall graphic concept. We [...]

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09.12.2013 - Concepts, special buildings

Kindergarten and youth center, Göggingen

Kindergarten and youth center, Göggingen, competition, 2011 In the immediate vicinity of the office, there is an opportunity to construct a building for children. A social task with a limited budget requires a focus on a pragmatic, human-centered yet atmospheric approach. A single-storey compact structure, completely timber construction, large south-facing windows to the [...]

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