Location | Seestrasse 12, Silbergasse 5, Oberägeri ZG |
Client | ALLGEMEINE WOHNBAUGENOSSENSCHAFT ZUG |
Commission | Study competition on invitation 2009 |
Planning | 2009–2010 |
Construction | 2010–2011 |
Architects | Graber & Steiger Architekten, Project Architect: Josef Stadelmann |
Consultants | Construction manager: Widmer Partner, Structural engineer: Pirmin Jung Consulting, Landscape architect: koepflipartner |
Photographer | D.M. Wehrli |
The placement of two compact buildings along the streets towards the lake achieves the natural continuation of the morphology and rhythm of the location. The conglomerate of existing and new buildings spans a permeable garden courtyard that decisively enhances the location’s living quality. Due to the slightly staggered arrangement of the buildings, appropriate distances are maintained between the houses as well as interesting visual relationships with the village, lake and landscape. A sustainable system was chosen for the mainly wooden constructions, while simultaneously picking up on the local building tradition in a contemporary form, as can be seen in the still existent shingled buildings in the central area. The finely structured façade envelope of varnished wooden shingles picks up on the atmosphere of the town. The façade band, which creates depth, additionally highlights the theme of shingles.
As a part of “Adda Collective” we are selected to participate in the „Korail Residency 2024“, which is embedded in the “Korail City of Culture” initiative in Dhaka/Bangladsh.
The project „Korail City of Culture“, which focuses on Dhaka's largest informal settlement, is a sustainable urban development initiative supported by the Creative Economy Programme of the Federal Foreign Office in Germany, in collaboration with Goethe-Institut Bangladesh and its local counterpart, Paraa, and international partner, Floating e.V.. The project aims to support cultural practitioners and producers living, working, and playing in Korail in establishing sustainable cultural practices, and to feed this knowledge back into processes of global and local learning and teaching on sustainable urban development.
The projects and works that are developed during the Korail residency program shall be part of the „Maja-Kori“ Design Festival in and around Korail Basti in December 2024.
Adda Collective is a multidisciplinary and mutinational team formed around „Adda Space“ Dhaka/Bangladesh and Graber & Steiger Architects, Lucerne/Switzerland. For further information you may also check Instagram @grabersteiger @adda.dhaka.
Image: Goethe Institute Bangladesh