IHD+ Grand Forms Scenarios Zurich West

IHD+ Grand Form Scenarios Zurich West Atelier E2A / Fall semester 2015

Accademia di Architettura di Mendrisio UniversitĂ della Svizzera italiana

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DENKEN ERWÜNSCHT Aktuelle Zahlen zeigen, dass das Bevölkerungswachstum in Zürich ungebrochen anhält. Raum zu schaffen für mehr als 80’000 neue Einwohnerinnen und Einwohner in einer Stadt, in der Neueinzonungen kein Thema, die Industriebrachen vollständig umgenutzt und die Stadtgrenzen gegeben sind, in der die unüberbauten Landreserven dramatisch zur Neige gehen und die letzten Arbeitsplatzgebiete auch aus politischen Gründen erhalten bleiben müssen, ist eine grosse Herausforderung, gleichzeitig aber auch eine riesige Chance. Nicht zu vergessen sind zudem die Sicherung und die Schaffung von zusätzlichen Arbeitsplätzen, die im Verhältnis von etwa 1:1 zur Einwohnerzahl stehen.

Zürich kann nur noch nach innen, also innerhalb des bestehenden Siedlungsgebiets, wachsen – «Verdichtung nach innen» heisst denn auch der strategische Lösungsansatz. Dies bedeutet, Potenziale, die in den bestehenden Bauzonen gemäss der Bauund Zonenordnung der Stadt Zürich liegen, auszuschöpfen oder die Dichte an dafür geeigneten Lagen zu erhöhen. Der Stadtrat hält gleichzeitig in seinen Strategien Zürich 2035 fest, dass die Verdichtung qualitätsvoll und räumlich differenziert erfolgen, die gewachsene Individualität der Stadtquartiere erhalten bleiben und die Stadt Wohnraum für alle bieten soll.

«Wachsen, aber richtig», so lautet das Losungswort.

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Architektur und Städtebau sind in diesem Kontext längst keine solistischen Disziplinen mehr. In einer sich nach innen verdichtenden Stadt sowieso nicht. Sie sind Teil eines grossen Orchesters und bewegen sich in einem engen Korsett von gesetzlichen, strategischen, politischen, gesellschaftlichen sowie ökonomischen Vorgaben. Dazu kommen die individuellen Interessen einer Grundeigentümerin oder eines Grundeigentümers, einer Bauherrin oder eines Bauherren, eines Grossinvestors. Helmut Schmidt, der grosse Deutsche Realpolitiker, meinte einmal: „Wer eine Vision hat, sollte zum Arzt gehen.“ Architekt Marcel Meili spricht sogar von einem „Verhandlungsurbanismus“. Und doch sind Visionen vor dem Hintergrund der Verdichtung nach innen wichtiger denn je.

In diesem übergeordneten Kontext bewegte sich die Aufgabenstellung, die Piet und Wim Eckert an der Accademia in Mendrisio für die Studierenden konzipierten und in Zusammenarbeit mit dem Amt für Städtebau der Stadt Zürich im Herbst 2015 zusammenstellte.

Während die städtische Verwaltung schon längst ihre Unschuld verloren hat und aufgrund der vielen Vorgaben, Regeln und Interessen zu oft nicht mehr in Visionen denkt, ergab sich zusammen mit den Studierenden die riesige Chance, das Gebiet zwischen

Preface THOUGHT REQUESTED Current statistics show that the population growth of Zurich continues without pause. Creating space for more than 80’000 new residents is a significant challenge; yet, it is also a tremendous opportunity in a city where land annexing is not under discussion, industrial brownfields have been completely converted, the boundaries of urban development have been clearly mandated, undeveloped land reserves are disappearing dramatically, and where the remaining employment zones must be preserved for political reasons. Last but not least, existing jobs must be secured and additional employment created in a ratio of approximately 1:1 with the number of inhabitants.

Architecture and urban planning, in this context, have not performed as solo acts for quite some time — especially in a city becoming more inwardly dense. They are instruments of a greater orchestra and are constrained by a tight-fitting corset of legal, strategic, political, socio-cultural, as well as economic parameters. This is exacerbated by the independent interests of property owners, clients, and major investors. Helmut Schmidt, the German politician famous for his theory of realpolitik, once noted: “If you have visions, go see a doctor.” Architect Marcel Meili even refers to a “urbanism of negotiation.” Nevertheless, the visions that lie behind inner densification remain more important than ever.

Zurich can only continue to grow internally, from within the existing urban fabric — «Inner Densification» is the name of the city’s strategic approach.

This means that the potentials of existing buildable land, as defined by the City of Zurich’s building codes and zoning plans, must be fully exploited or, where appropriate, permissible densities increased. Concurrently, the city council continues to adhere to its Zurich 2035 strategy: density should be carried out in a high-quality and spatially differentiated manner, the unique nature of the city’s districts preserved, and living space provided for all of the city’s manifold residents.

«Growth, but appropriately» is the credo.

It is within this overarching context that Piet and Wim Eckert, in close collaboration with the Department of Urban Planning at the City of Zurich, conceived the project brief for their students’ Fall 2015 studio designs at the Academy of Architecture in Mendrisio.

While the city administration shed its naiveté long ago and, due to the restrictions of parameters, codes, and interests often lacks a concentrated vision today, working with students created a unique opportunity to analyze the territory between Toniareal and Westlink — to think the impossible and experiment both with pronounced density as well as innovative programmatic combinations.

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Toniareal und Westlink zu untersuchen, das Unmögliche zu denken und mit ausgesprochen hohen Dichten, aber auch neuen Nutzungskombinationen zu experimentieren.

Die Resultate, die zusammengesetzt eine umfassenden Gebietsplanung ergeben und sich auf faszinierende Art und Weise zu einem grossen Ganzen zusammenfügen, überzeugen. Sie leisten wichtige Denkanstösse zur weiteren möglichen Entwicklung von Zürich West. Dank den teilweise raffinierten städtebaulichen Setzungen gelingt es zudem, dieses Quartier mit dem Bahnhof Altstetten zu verbinden. Auch über mögliche (gross)städtische Dichten wird schlüssig nachgedacht.

Wenn Zürich wachsen will, wird es nämlich nicht darum herumkommen, sich auch damit auseinanderzusetzen.

Nicht überall machen zwar solche hohen Dichten Sinn, aber in diesem Gebiet, das von grossvolumigen Bauten wie das Toniareal oder das Hochhaus

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Hard Turm Park geprägt wird, ist es richtig und wichtig, darüber nachzudenken. Auch mit unkonventionellen Kombinationen von Wohnen und Industriebauten wird experimentiert.

Den Arbeiten fehlt, gerade was die Kosten oder die gesetzlichen, strategischen und politischen Vorgaben angeht, der Realitätscheck. Doch genau dies ist das Bestechende. Wenn nicht an einer Hochschule, wo dann sollen Experimente stattfinden und Visionen entwickelt und diskutiert werden? Das Spannende und Faszinierende unseres Studiums kumuliert in diesem Punkt, der gleichzeitig unsere Herausforderung ist: Alles ist noch möglich und nichts unmöglich!

Patrick Gmür Direktor des Amt für Städtebau Stadt Zürich

The results are compelling: together, their composite yields a comprehensive urban plan for the area, and represents a fascinating means of achieving a whole. They generated important and thought-provoking impulses for the further development of ZurichWest. Moreover, the sophistication of certain urban interventions even suggested the possibility of connecting the district to the Altstetten train station.

Conclusive reflection also targeted potential (mega)city densities.

If Zurich is to grow, it will be impossible to avoid to engaging with this topic in the future. While such densities would not be appropriate everywhere, these sites, characterized by the massive volumes of Toniareal and the high-rise tower of Hard Turm Park, are well-suited for such investigations. Students also experimented with unconventional combinations of living and industrial building typologies. The projects have a lack of realism, particularly in regard to costs, as

well as legal, strategic, and political requirements. However, therein lies the basis of the appeal. If not at a university, then where can such experiments be conducted — and such visions be developed and debated? The excitement and fascination of our education culminates in the very point that also symbolizes our greatest challenge: everything remains possible and nothing is impossible!

Patrick GmĂźr Director of the Department of Urban Planning City of Zurich

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Index Introduction...................................................................9 Mosaic of Episodes.....................................................11 Inventory......................................................................17 Sites..............................................................................19 Methodology................................................................29 Combining Singularities.............................................31 Dual Object..................................................................33 Architectural Body......................................................37 Implementation - A Synopsis.....................................45 Track Triangle.............................................................47 Foodmarket.................................................................53 Congrexpo....................................................................59 Grand Hotel.................................................................67 Train Park...................................................................75 Superblock...................................................................85 Bus Terminal...............................................................95 Acknowledgment.......................................................107 Imprint.......................................................................108

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Introduction The population of Switzerland is expected to reach nine million inhabitants by the year 2025. The projected growth of between 800’000 and one million people per decade represents a conservative estimate, considering the current immigration level of 40’000 people per year.

For the first time in history, the Canton of Zurich has requested an interim master plan to accommodate 80’000 additional inhabitants within the boundaries of the City of Zurich.

“Rather than a unified concept, the city is now a structure made up of ‘complementary places.’ The many contrasting areas, areas of recreation, culture, commerce, residence and work, together form a loose urban association, … a kind of federation.” 1 The cantonal requirement clearly states that future population growth should primarily occur in cities. Territorial expansion as well as increased density are both necessary in order to absorb the approximately 10% of predicted overall growth this entails.

Current studies by the city planning department show that, for example, an increase of 15’000 people in Alt-

stetten, which is the district of the city with the largest footprint, would cause a massive change in the existing urban fabric, and also that development would be extremely complex due to the highly heterogeneous configuration of property lines.

In order to prevent an equal increase of density over the entire footprint of the city, new “compensation” areas must be defined, which will operate in an innovative new context including concepts for density, proximity, building heights, and programmatic combination.

Our studio continues its exploration of islands. In conjunction with Michel Foucault’s2 concept of heterotopias defined as the “foreign,” the “special,” and the “other” as a self-inscription into the context of a prevailing norm, the overwhelming influence of infrastructure along the Western corridor through the City of Zurich will act as a basis for combining complementary programs.

The present territory calls for an “essence of difference” – a conception of concentrated identity and coherent location. A sequence of islands will arise as a fragmented, dialectic urban element and as a representation of the discontinuity inherent to contemporary existence.

Piet Eckert and Wim Eckert Guest professors at AAM

1 Oswald Matthias Ungers, The Dialectic City, Milan 1997 2

Michel Foucault, “Of Other Spaces, Heterotopias” (original title: “Des Espaces Autres”, lecture 1967), in Architecture, Mouvement, Continuité, No. 5, Oct. 1984, pp. 46-49

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“In order to prevent an equal increase of density over the entire footprint of the city, new ‘compensation’ areas must be defined, which will operate in an innovative new context including a new relation of density, proximity and community.” Piet Eckert

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Mosaic of Episodes The western corridor from Zurich University of Arts to the Westlink represents one of the last underdeveloped industrial areas of the city. The greater the capacity to integrate new housing adjacent to existing infrastructure, the less significantly development will impact other neighborhoods of the city.

Recently implemented projects in Zurich West (its closest neighbor) has already revealed new combinations of thematic program: an association of previously unimaginable hybrids. The Escher Terrace apartment building combines the industrial and artistic workshops of the Zurich Opera house with housing; the Toni Areal transformed a milk and yogurt factory into the Zurich University of Arts, including approximately 100 housing units; the upcoming Hard Depot development will combine tram parking facilities with nearly 300 apartments.

The combination of infrastructurerelated programs with housing and a public agenda will be a key driver in transforming the remaining logistical supply-grounds of the city.

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Co-authored with his assistants and first released by Ungers’ own “Studioverlag für Architektur”: Oswald Mathias Ungers, Rem Koolhaas, Peter Riemann, Hans Kollhoff, Arthur Ovaska, Die Stadt in der Stadt. Berlin, das grüne Stadtarchipel. Ein stadträumliches Planungskonzept für die zukünftige Entwicklung Berlins, Cologne 1977, subsequently as: Cities within the City: Proposals by the Summer Academy for Berlin, Lotus, no.19, 1978. Co-hosted by the West Berlin International Centre for Design, the Cornell Summer Academies enabled on-site research for Ungers and his group of teaching assistants and students. “The Urban Villa” was followed by “The Urban Garden” in 1978; a third academy, dealing with the topic of public art and the city, did not take place.

4 André Bideau, Identity Markers. The Question of Authoring Space in Post-Fordism, Lecture delivered on July 30, 2012 at the International Summer Academy Zurich

A spatial sequence of specific sites will serve as the basis of our work on architectural typologies. The planned implementation of large triangular railway junction, a workshop area on land belonging to Zurich’s electrical power supplier, a food market and distribution center, a football stadium, a telecommunication center, a new concert hall, and a new central bus station require large public agendas to be combined with housing units; these aim to explore the concept of dwelling by addressing issues such as dimension, typology, form, and architectonic quality.

The overwhelming presence of infrastructure is striking along the city’s western corridor. The European city has always been centered on infrastructure as a basis for expanding its territory; however, while all infrastructural elements are now available here, neither urbanity nor expansion of the city has occurred. An array of infrastructural and technological fragments has been reserved as an operative space to distribute and serve the entire territory of the city.

The studio will call this exclusive spatial premise into question, engaging this infrastructural zone with a typological cross-section of large public and private programs. Similar to Unger’s work on the Green Archipelago3 in Berlin, the studio attempts to author disjointed episodes in order to infuse individual territories with a relational systematic form. Although fragmented, it should be read as a composition, as an urban and typological artifact, as André Bideau has outlined in his convincing analysis of Zurich’s urban development entitled “Identity Markers”.4 The site will have to be reconsidered as a collection of islands within one large, contained territory. Essential to the island metaphor is the idea that the isolation of distinctive elements (alienation factor) would be capable of articulating specific urban qualities in a condensed form. The program to be implemented on each site will have to consider its overall scale in order to support the idea of a “city within a city.” Identities must emerge despite a proliferation of independent and disconnected perceptions of morphology, community, and use. On the contrary, these three aspects will lead to the specificity of a typological discovery; this is the ambition of this studio.

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Workshop Schlagenhauf (painters’ studio) Workshop Stadtpolizei Zurich (City of Zurich police department) Workshop EWZ (power supplier for City of Zurich) EWZ track triangle (brownfield conversion area) Zurich University of Arts (Toni Areal) Hardturm West (private real estate development)

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Food market (wholesale food market) 9.

Football Stadium (ongoing project) 10.

Otto Fischer (distribution center) 11. Swisscom

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The western corridor contains an inventory of supply and distribution functions. The main stakeholders are well known logistics suppliers in Switzerland: SBB (Swiss Railways), Migros (food and grocery supply), EWZ (Zurich’s electricity supplier), Swisscom (telecommunications) and private developers such as Hardturm West, a spinoff of the Halter Real Estate Group.

Here, the City and Canton of Zurich can considerably expand their influence on planning, targeting the increased implementation of housing units through an engagement with existing logistical and infrastructural sites. In fact, the city and canton will have to reprogram these areas in order to create a vision for new, high-value urban spaces.

Neuco Lights (showroom) Workshop EWZ (power supplier for City of Zurich) SBB (temporary train parking) Westlink Tower (Migros Club School) Vulkanplatz (public space) Secondhand car dealership GGA West

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Track Triangle industrial renewal zone, coil factory, offices for 600 working spaces Plot size: 6’550 m2 High rise lot (> 80 m tall)

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Foodmarket wholesale food market Plot size: 11’000 m2

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Congrexpo, Palais Xtra convention center & concert hall Plot size: 11’500 m2

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Grand Hotel: the market’s gate Plot size: 14’550 m2

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Superblock, Redlight district Plot size: 26’150 m2

Train park, cleaning infrastructure Plot size: 23’600 m2

Bus terminal, traffic hub Plot size: 20’700 m2

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Sites The site plan defines a basic programmatic combination per plot. This combination of functions allows new concepts of “community� and morphology to take place, creating a new type of urbanity.

This collective character addresses both the issue of much-needed public agendas for the public sphere as well as the pressing issue of housing.

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Methodology The development of an ambiguous body (volume) produces an imagination of hybridity, of a mutated state.

maintain a singular sense of cohesion.

The contradictory has become the contemporary program of our discipline.

The concentration of various activities into one structure generates pressure on the platonistic aspect of form and has the capacity to distend and warp pureness.

Hybridity exerts an impact on architectural form and allows the coexistence of diversity.

“If there is to be a ‘new urbanism’ it will not be based on the twin fantasies of order and omnipotence; it will be the staging of uncertainty ... it will no longer be about meticulous definition, the imposition of limits, but about expanding notions, denying boundaries, not about separating and defining entities, but about discovering un-nameable hybrids; it will no longer be obsessed with the city but with the manipulation of infrastructure for endless intensifications and diversifications, shortcuts and redistributions – the reinvention of psychological space.” 5 Hybridity contextualizes an individual piece of program with others and overlaps intensities. Its parts are causally related but its result should be more than the sum of all parts (mixed uses).

5 Rem Koolhaas, “Whatever Happened to Urbanism”, in OMA, Rem Koolhaas and Bruce Mau, S,M,L,XL, New York 1995, pp 959-971

right: Hans Kollhoff, competition project for atlanpole, Nantes, France, 1988 left: The Bank of Toronto Building would eventually be demolished for the TD Centre Toronto dominion Centre (1967-1991)

by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Hybridity may react to a context that is increasingly driven by the massive impact of social, political, economic and ecological factors, attempting to

It could be seen as a tool to elaborate a specific combination of program, structure, or typologies in order to deal with discrepancies – or in other words, to systemize found incoherencies.

A hybrid organization is one that mixes elements, value systems, and action logics of various sectors of society.

As hybrid organizations combine essentially incongruous elements, tensions can arise. Hybrid structures manage the coexistence of conflicting values.

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Combining Singularities It is the intention of this studio to investigate the formal and spatial generative possibilities when the notion of hybridization is applied to existing infrastructure and the unsolved residual spaces of the city, at both the architectural and the urban scale.

The combination of multiple architectural programs, functions, and urban components within a single system inherently challenges the conventional view of building identity and our notion and understanding of autonomous types.

Mixing, assembling, arranging, and composing diverse identities in order to obtain a new singularity, in which the parts are recognizable but no longer restorable – because hybridization is an irreversible process – is the prime field of investigation we will tackle.

We could identify, among others, the following means of combining architectural typologies: By collecting or stratifying more examples or variations of the same typology, we obtain a type’s encyclopedic collection – its hyper-type.

Superimposing one type of building on top of another is the most obvious way to assemble typologies, but in order to become a hybrid, this accumulation must work as a system with directly related interdependencies.

right: E2A; Heinrich Böll Foundation Berlin, 2006-2008 left: Hugh Ferriss, Maximum Mass, permitted by the 1916 New York Zoning Law, Stage 2 (published in The New York Times Magazine, No. 19, March 1922, p. 9)

The monster is the union of two (or more) separate, very well-known entities which, in merging together, produce an uncanny outcome – the inhabited bridge is an example of a typological monster, merging the architecture of dwelling with infrastructure.

When different types of buildings are

contained within a mega-structure, gathered under a common roof, those buildings almost become the elements of a new interior architecture.

The mere connecting of independent units in a specific manner, rendering them no longer independent, is a way to create a new organism with a minimum effort, like Frankenstein – puzzled, yet conscious.

In the superblock, different typologies compressed together can coexist, inscribed into a new generic form.

By shifting a portion of city from a horizontal to a vertical palimpsest, streets and buildings merge together into a new vertical unity.

By reproducing a city made of singular entities through a solidary act of simulation, the singularities melt together under the control of a unitary project – Gotham is like New York, but represents one programmatic concept instead.

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Dual Object The merging of two different systems, which seemingly would not belong together, creates a dual form. They appear in unity rather than in multiplicity, and therefore become more like one form than two forms fused together.

The ambition of a dual form is to merge oppositions into one dependent system. The form, then, is the logical consequence resulting from the merging of two formerly opposing conditions.

For the first exercise, each student must supply an emblematic example of the means through which two objects can establish a symbiotic relationship with one another – a meaningful form of proximity that results in one singularity.

By producing a conceptual model made of plaster as instrument of investigation, each student will try to exemplify a specific condition of hybridity and interdependency.

right: Haris Jusovic, pipe in the form of a shoe left: Exercise 1, Student: Pedro Rodriguez-Parets Maleras, AAM

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Architectural Body As a natural extension of the first exercise, the second assignment requires the translation of the concept of duality into an architectonic form.

but the merging, the coming together and overlapping of forms, a process that makes its components indispensable.

Every student must focus on the production of a volumetric model, which is to emerge from the combination of different architectural typologies. This is not the simple juxtaposition of a variety of shapes, or a clash of forms –

A white-colored volumetric model will be accompanied by a set of drawings to represent it in plan and section. The introduction of an architectural scale will lead towards a plausible architectural proposal.

right: Exercise 2, Student: Benjamin Barrera, AAM left: Exercise 2, Student: Tomas Prendeville, AAM

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Exercise 2, Student: Pedro Rodriguez-Parets, AAM

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Exercise 2, Student: Oliver Cretton, AAM

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Exercise 2, Student: Lei Zheng, AAM

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Implementation - A Synopsis Projects along the Zurich-West corridor support the notion that a vision for future urban configurations need not be impeded by a reliance on existing public services and infrastructure.

The densification of such sites makes it possible to develop a de facto urban fabric of the future out of a terrain vague, to create a neighborhood that, through growth and convergence, effectively manages a population of approximately 10’000.

Noteworthy is that this sort of evolution is no longer based on the “redundancy” scenarios of functions past, though this has often remained the case with large development projects in Zurich. The capacity of existing functions should be retainable — and expandable. Service and infrastructure spaces become highly attractive sites to adequately and rapidly capture growth, due to their simple ownership structure and significant size.

The combination of infrastructural, public-service oriented, and residential uses provides governmental authorities with a surprising amount of latitude to use their property as leverage to pursue their interests in public works, urban development, and housing policy.

These projects demonstrate how preservation, addition, and expansion of functions can coexist as a typological combination. One combines, to a certain extent, elements that were not previously related to one another and, in the process, releases a high potential for change as well as densification.

The goal is not just to condense these spaces into residential developments, but rather to create urban environments that have access to a re-made infrastructure. The significant potential for density along the western corridor can therefore compensate for great expanses of the city.

Densification measures often constrain the need for open space in this neighborhood. In re-envisioning Pfingstweidstrasse and Aargauerstrasse, spaces that are, today, already highly infrastructural are not just “urbanized,” but also allow underutilized existing places like Hardhof to become part of a new context. Here, the enterprise of development can — almost inimitably — access a “predisposed” supply.

Piet Eckert Guest professor at AAM

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Track Triangle Students: Benjamin Barrera, Pedro Rodriguez-Parets, Cristiana Vega

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Atelier Piet Eckert and Wim Eckert

Accademia di Architettura Mendrisio Final review Fall semester 2015-2016

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Atelier Piet Eckert and Wim Eckert

Accademia di Architettura Mendrisio Final review Fall semester 2015-2016

Oliver Cretton, Eleonora Sbrissa, Monica Vassallo December 16th 2015

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Acknowledgment This documentation would not be possible without the support of the Department of Urban Planning, City of Zurich (Amt f체r St채dtebau, Z체rich).

The involvement of Partick Gm체r, Pascal Hunkeler and David Ganzoni was substantial for our preparation and the following discussions in Mendrisio. The expertise and critical discourse of Juan Herreros, guest critique of our atelier, produced a wonderful inspiration for next steps.

Further we like to thank Marc Collomb and Marco Della Torre for their continuous support of our studio.

Piet Eckert and Wim Eckert with Michelle Badrutt and Andrea Faraguna

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Imprint Photographs: if not noted otherwise: Atelier E2A Accademia di Architettura di Mendrisio, Università della Svizzera italiana

Edited by Atelier E2A Accademia di Architettura di Mendrisio, Università della Svizzera italiana

Michelle Badrutt page 10, 20-27, 32, 34/35, 36, 37, 38 /39, 40/41, 42/43, 106

Managing Editors Piet Eckert, Wim Eckert, Pia Simmendinger, Monika Annen

Alberto Canepa page 44, 46, 48, 52, 54/55, 58, 60/61, 64/65, 68/69, 72/73, 74, 82/83, 86/87, 92-93, 96-97

Proofreading Pia Simmendinger, Lindsay Howe

Jon Naiman page 31, 102/103, 104/105 Image Source www: page 12/13 (google earth), 28 Plans, Collages: if not noted otherwise: Atelier E2A Texts: if not noted otherwise: Atelier E2A

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Translations Lindsay Howe © 2016 Atelier E2A Accademia di Architettura di Mendrisio, Università della Svizzera italiana Preface © 2016 Patrick Gmür Director of the Department of Urban Planning City of Zurich