Brüggliäcker housing estate
Zürich-Schwamendingen, Switzerland
- Architects
- Baumberger & Stegmeier AG
- Location
- Zürich-Schwamendingen, Switzerland
- Year
- 2014
- Client
- BAHOGE Wohnbaugenossenschaft
- Team
- BS+EMI Architektenpartner
The Brüggliäcker Housing Estate is located in the area between Oerlikon and Schwamendingen where a small-scale district of single-family homes meets the housing rows of Albert Steiner’s garden city. The three-story buildings adopt the height of their neighbors, and their staggered outdoor spaces interweave the new buildings with the green space of the surroundings. The full dimensions of the buildings’ overall figure cannot be grasped from any one position, helping to create a scale and intimacy appropriate to the neighborhood.
The apartment layouts are developed from alternating relationships to the exterior. With their open-plan living and dining rooms, the elongated apartments stretch between the two garden spaces and have exposures on at least two – or in the case of the end units, three – sides. Continuous outdoor rooms set in front of the east and west facades heighten the porosity between indoor and outdoor space. The usable floor area of the apartments is determined to a minimal degree, thus enabling a variety of living situations.
in cooperation with
Edelaar Mosayebi Inderbitzin Architekten
Project competition in 2009, 1. prize
Construction
2009–2014
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