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Apartment Building Manegg
Maneggstrasse 147 - 157, Zürich
2011 - 2017
The elongated plot A
forms the start to the new urban district
GreenCity.Zürich and is strongly influenced by the
neighbouring street and railway. We used this
essentially ʻimpossible situationʼ as the impulse to
develop a narrow, elongated building with an
expressive character that can develop a sense of
identity. The geometry of the site leads to mostly
east-west facing apartments which are all connected
by means of a ʻstreet in the airʼ to the communal
room and the shared roof garden. The building is
massively constructed using a wall and slab system.
The gridded façade helps contain the long volume of
the building and emphasizes its sculptural quality.
The motif of interwoven vertical and horizontal
bands produces depth and a feeling of volume. In
combination with windows of different sizes this
leads to a facade composition that is richly varied,
yet also calm. The ground floor is used for
commercial functions. It takes up the robust nature
of the street and the railway line and is made as a
concrete plinth. The passageways leading through the
building and the entrances located in them are
announced by metal framing. The communal space and
the street in the air can be read in the façade
through their generously sized window openings.
(Text by EM2N)