Chair of / Cátedra de /
Lehrstuhl für

Archi-
tecture
&
Urban
Design

Prof. Hubert Klumpner

 

Chair of Architecture and
Urban Design /  
Institute of Landscape- and
Urban Studies / LUS
Member of Network City and Landscape / NSL
Co-Director of ETH Wohnforum,
Centre for Architecture
Society and Environment / ETH Wohnforum / ETH CASE
Co-Founder and Members
of Institute of Science
Technology and Policy / ISTP
Member of the ETH Sustainability
Steering Committee
Informal Urbanism Regional
Hub of UN-Habitat Universities

 

DARCH

Mino Sommer

MADE IN STREET
Chair of Architecture and Urban Design
Prof. Hubert Klumpner

Around the perimeter, Zurich North is growing, fueled by an ongoing gentrification and displacement in the historical city center.

The aim of this project is, to transform Thurgauerstrasse radically, make it home and workplace for a marginalized and gentrified generation and create a new quality centrality in the urban setting of Zurich north.

Please explore the project on this public Miro board:

miro.com/app/board/o9J_lca4ms4=/

  • Professor
    Hubert Klumpner
  • Assistants
    Anne Graupner, Diogo Figueiredo
  • Details
    The transformation process consists of three strategies, being realized sequentially:

    1. The existing buildings are brought together as one entity

    2. Spacial reorganization of the site and the introduction of urban production. The Baulandreserve is being left as a common public green space, the ground floor of the existing office buildings serves productive uses and the upper floors are programmed with a hybrid setting of public and residential uses (immediate realization)

    3. Once the site is established and has gained attraction, a radical densification can take place