City hub Transformation Densification
The Swiss Federal Railways (SBB) plans to transform one of its inner city workshops into an urban manufacturing hub. The Werkstadt Zürich project offers the opportunity to establish a sustainable mix of traditional and innovative business, services and leisure facilities centrally located in Zurich. The plan concerns one of the last major inner city areas and is developed in close cooperation with the City of Zurich. The city government is committed to creating good conditions for the 'urban workplace of the future'.
The architecture of the workshop buildings and their location on Hohlstrasse and the track area offer good opportunities for the gradual opening and conversion of the site. An important componen...
- Location
- Zurich, Switzerland
- Client
- Swiss National Railways (SBB)
- Year
- 2016 - Ongoing
- Status
- Ongoing
- Disciplines
- Urban Design
- Collaborators
- Tenants: denkstatt sarl
- Landscape: Studio Vulkan Landschaftsarchitektur
- Energy: KEOTO
- Engineering: BAKUS
- Traffic: IBV Hüsler
- Architecture and reuse: Baubüro in situ
- Developer: SBB Immobilien
- Process consultation: Planwerkstatt