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Our remix of a straightforward seventies social housing estate creates surprising living scenarios and color combinations. A new interpretation of financial and constructive restrictions allows us to create two new apartment types in the tower: house-like maisonette apartments with double-story loggias; and two-sided apartments facing west and south, where a glazed “bathing loggia” can be created. All buildings are cladded with shimmering, bronze-colored corrugated aluminum, contrasting with the bright insets of the balconies and loggias. In their new outfit, the long, the short and the tall house join to form a recognizable gang of buildings in the almost rural environment of Seebach.

 

Task: Renovation and recombination of apartments in Heumatt, a 1970-ies social housing project in Seebach, Zurich.
Size: 142 apartments, cost EUR 14 000 000.-
Status: Invited competition with 5 participants, 1st price, 2002/03; realization 2003-05.
Team: Collaboration with Proplaning AG, Basel; Execution by Batigroup AG, total services contractor, Zurich.
Collaborators: Franziska Schneider (project architect), Johannes Schele (competition), Jeanette Kuo.
Client: City of Zurich (Liegenschaftenverwaltung / Amt für Hochbauten).

Batigroup AG:
http://www.batigroup.com

Proplaning AG:
http://www.proplaning.net

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Recombination of apartments in the tower  
Recombination of apartments in the tower  
   
New cladding for the Short House  
New cladding for the Short House  
   
Bathing loggias in the upper part of the tower

Bathing loggias in the upper part of the tower