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Urban planning Kalkbreite, Zurich

Part 2 Project 2004
Christof Helbling
Andrew McBride
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich | Switzerland
Planning area covers a triangular property in Zurich district of Wiedikon. Side limitations: two important district roads, railway tracks are on a lower level. Ground level to be used as tram parking area of the public transport service. Project reacts to the side peculiarity by defining the adequate architecture, the building programm and the free space architecture.


Top roof living is the main project’s idea. Composition makes a harmonious and local ensemble through transformation of existing fragments as a new unity. Ensemble: a powerful spatial configuration unifying contrasts, adapting facades, volumes, colours and textures into a painterly style or counterpoint.

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