Mixed Use Transformation Silhouette
With the ‘Quarter of the Dancing Couples’ KCAP (urban design and architecture), Studio Vulkan (landscape) and Raumanzug (sustainability) win the competition for a new residential neighbourhood with 279 apartments in the vicinity of Zurich. Wangen-Brüttisellen is a fast-growing municipality which is planning to densify. One of the plots designated for redevelopment is the Erni-Areal, a former industrial estate located close to the railway station. The aim was to create a dense and liveable neighbourhood in a contrasting, almost cacophonous context.
Mobimo, one of the leading real estate companies in Switzerland, invited five teams to redevelop the former Erni-Areal in Wangen-Brüttisellen. This partially built up site is to be transformed i...
- Location
- Zurich, Switzerland
- Client
- Mobimo AG
- Year
- 2022 - Ongoing
- Status
- Ongoing
- Program
- 36.000 m2 (GFA) Transformation of an industrial area into mixed use neighbourhood with 279 apartments, office and commercial programme
- Disciplines
- Architecture
- Urban Design
- Urban Planning
- Credits
- Renders: Filippo Bolognese
- Collaborators
- Landscape Architect: Studio Vulkan
- Sustainability Consultant: Raumanzug