Location | Gotthardstrasse 14, Altdorf UR |
Client | HEILPÄDAGOGISCHES ZENTRUM URI |
Competition | Competition on invitation 2008 |
Planning | 2008–2010 |
Construction | 2010–2011 |
Architects | Graber & Steiger Architekten, Project Architect: Doris Wyss |
Consultants | Construction manager: CAS Architekten, Structural engineer: Pirmin Jung, Landscape architect: koepflipartner, Artist: Beat Streuli |
Photographer | D.M. Wehrli |
The building ensemble of the Uri curative educational centre was completed with the new ring-shaped therapy section near the wall enclosure that is typical of the location. The building volume, which is structured by recesses and projections, thereby subtly reacts to the surrounding buildings and exterior spaces both within and outside its grounds. The simple principle of perpendicular stacked room groups creates an exciting spatial principle that achieves clarity and orientation with surprising simplicity, while also revealing panorama views of the village and landscape. The building erected using a wooden element construction method receives a dark wooden façade as its envelope. The interior rooms clad in light wood radiate a studio-like atmosphere that can encourage children to participate in different activities.
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