Schlagwort: terraced hill housing

  • book: concrete in switzerland. histories from the rencent past

    book: concrete in switzerland. histories from the rencent past

    Book contribution on terraced hill houses published in this EPFL press release from 2021. A groundbreaking work resulting from the collaboration between the three major Swiss Architectural Archives and the Swiss Architecture Museum in Basel. A historical assessment of the most controversial building material of our time, concrete, made by addressing a number of issues…

  • exhibition: gebäude.grün – vom blumenfenster zum bosco verticale

    exhibition: gebäude.grün – vom blumenfenster zum bosco verticale

    Contribution to the gebäude.grün exhibition at Architekturforum Zurich 21.3-17.05.2019. Terraced housing: stacked gardens in the Bühnenberg quarter in Oftringen. The photos of the model (unfortunately lost) show it impressively: the harmony of landscape and architecture. This is not unusual, since many architects focus on the mural rather than the floral terrace form. In Atelier 5’s…