Esch Sintzel . photos: © Paola Corsini . + domusweb
The mighty existing columns of the former Coop wine storage in Basel’s Lysbüchel neighborhood tell the story of the building’s history in an impressive way. Continue reading Esch Sintzel
Esch.Sintzel . photos: © Philip Heckhausen
The Trift settlement on the edge of Horgen-Oberdorf is intended to show what sustainable planning can look like when it is thought of comprehensively: economically, energy-efficiently, socially networked. Four teams of architects are designing four construction sites that are still undeveloped today. Continue reading Esch.Sintzel
Esch Sintzel Architekten . photos: © Philip Heckhausen
Concept. Politically, Sennhof belongs to the city of Winterthur, but geographically the suburb is clearly separated from the city area and forms a village exclave in the valley of the Töss. The river not only shapes the topography, it also aligns the elements of the settlement in the direction of flow: Buildings, road, railway line, forest edges. This also applies to the buildings and open spaces of the new Oberzelg settlement, which is squeezed between the cantonal road and the railway line. Continue reading Esch Sintzel
In the 17th century wealthy citizens began building summer residences with extensive gardens outside the Zurich city walls, most of which today, however, have been subject to dense development.
Expansive gardens and compact neighbourhoods – these poles characterize the concept for two apartment buildings to be erected in one of the last open gardens. The new buildings recede far from the older ones, and are articulated as light pavilions. In order to create less of an obstruction to the natural slope of the terrain and in order to create wide intermediate spaces, the buildings are positioned obliquely to the hillside on rhombic footprints. Continue reading Esch Sintzel
The urbanisation of the boundaries of the railway lines at Zurich main station has parallels to the cultivation of the lakeshore in the nineteenth century. Just as in the latter case harbours, quaysides and fallow marshes were transformed into promenades and squares, so the railway tracks have now become recognised as a prestigious site – centrally located, clearly visible from numerous other locations and itself profiting from the uninterrupted view over what is (next to the lake) the largest open space in the city. The rear side of the city is transformed into a frontage. Continue reading Esch Sintzel
