E2A Eckert Eckert Architekten . photos: © Rasmus Norlander
The Broëlberg housing complex was programmatically formulated to suit a total of 1% of the overall rental market. The client’s program defined an explicit type, with equality among the users as a requirement – a high-end housing for foreigners and expatriates unable to find residential conditions to match their expectations. The context for once was unique, virginal and untouched, in a private park – one of the last remaining protected retreats close to Zurich, with two designated areas in which the housing projects were to be built as two separate islands. The design provided a rigorous location for democratic divisions with vertical layering, ensuring that everyone would have an equal relation to the park. The vertical stacking expresses a menu, with superimposed living models, one on top of the other; a sunken infrastructure, an open-plan, a chamber work of individual rooms and a summerhouse on the roof.
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Invited competition 2001, 1st prize
Address:
Broëlberg, Kilchberg, Switzerland
Client:
privat
Realization:
2001 – 2003
Team:
Wim Eckert, Piet Eckert with Nicole Manser and Pascal Mumprecht, Laurent Brunier, Britta Knobel, Chris Thüer, Olaf Schmidt, Udo Schaumburg, Mark Michaeli, Stefan Bernoulli, Antje Machold
Collaboration:
General Contractor Zschokke: Generalunternehmung AG, Zurich
Structural Engineer: Dr. Lüchinger + Meyer Bauingenieure AG, Zurich
Landscape Architect: Vogt Landschaftsarchitekten AG, Zurich
Façade Engineer: Feroplan Engineering AG, Zurich
Mechanical/Plumbing: Widmer + Co. AG, Adliswil; Baltensperger AG, Zurich
Electrical Engineer: Appenzeller AG, Zurich
Photographs: Andreas Rubin, Michael Freisager
