Studio Eva Prats, Building Communities - ETH Zürich 2020 (HS20) ♦ Flores i Prats

Carole von Ziegler, Hannes Lukesch, Florina Asfour_Urban response, masterplan model

Carole von Ziegler_The house and its aggregation, section

Carole von Ziegler_The house and its aggregation, axonometric drawing

Carole von Ziegler, Hannes Lukesch, Florina Asfour_Observation of the Site. The spaces in between still belong to the city

Florina Asfour_Balconies Stories. Intermediate space. Axonometric drawing

Florina Asfour_A new ending for the VIaduktbogen, now ending at the corner of the newly formed square

Florina Asfour_Domestic Fragment_The triangular bay windows next to the balconies stand out

Moritz Schmidlin_The house and its aggregation_ground floor

Moritz Schmidlin_Domestic fragment model

Chiara Gloor_Axonometric. The story of a busy lunch in summer

Chiara Gloor_Four levels of the collective housing building. Scale 1.200

Chiara Gloor_Section-perspective through glass houses and skylights. The ateliers on the roof level dive up and down the waterline

Chiara Gloor_Shared terraces organizing an in between space for the cluster apartments

Chiara Gloor_Observation Cartography. The access to the lake in 1800 and the acces to the train tracks nowadays

Céline Berberat_Axonometric of intermediate spaces

Céline Berberat_The former Lokomotivdepot is a passage towards the new housing units

Céline Berberat_Domestic Qualities. 1.50 scale axonometric

Céline Berberat_Domestic fragment. The vestibule as a portico in front of the facade helps to create an atmospheric little outdoor space

Céline Berberat, Moritz Schmidlin, Chiara Gloor_Observation Drawings of the site

Nicola Moss, Blanca Bosshard, Laura Oberholzer_Streetsection Ottostrasse. how neighbors get in touch with the vis a vis

Nicola Moss_Living area, with terrace and bay window-like situations that open the view along the tracks

Nicola Moss_Living floor with community circulation, a meeting point for exchange and activities

Blanca Bosshard_Domestic fragment, Corner Room

Blanca Bosshard_Domestic fragment, model

Laura Oberholzer_The floor material is connecting inside to the shared room outside

Laura Oberholzer_A common room among neighbours

Joel Vetter_domestic fragment, monumentality

Illenia Buzzi, Christelle Paroz, Joel Vetter_observation drawings, two kinds of intimacy

Illenia Buzzi_Observational Cartography. State of 1913 Green Spots

Illenia Buzzi_Community around the Stage

Illenia Buzzi_The House and its Aggregation

Christelle Paroz_Intermediate Space. Living by the Train Tracks

Christelle Paroz_Corner appartment. The strong diagonal is broken bringing different moments with the help of furnitures

Christelle Paroz_Living above the Gleisfeld

Charlotte Neyenhuys_Intermediate space, Axonometric drawing

Laura Imperiali_Domestic fragment, model

Laura Imperiali, Salim Umar, Senia Mischler_model

Senia Mischler, Laura Imperiali, Salim Umar_Bridging Communities. Masterplan

Salim Umar_The House and its Aggregation. Bridge Level

Salim Umar_The House and its Aggregation. Ground Floor

Salim Umar_Observational Cartography, Zürich letting down its guard

Elena Geser_Enjoying your private Realm in the Density of Kreis 5, Kitchen

Elena Geser_Enjoying your private Realm in the Density of Kreis 5, Living Room

Gabriel Eggenschwyler_Observational Cartography

Gabriel Eggenschwyler_In love with Sugus, Two partners on eye level

Liuba Kharisova_The house and its aggregation

Selina Frauenfelder_Roof Terraces, Community spaces, Grill, Ping pong, Gardens

Selina Frauenfelder_The House and its Aggregation. Collage

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Studio Eva Prats, Building Communities – ETH Zürich
Autumn semester 2020 (HS20)

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Visiting Professor: Eva Prats
Adviser: Ricardo Flores
Teaching Assistants: Annina Meier & Guillaume Guisan

Students:
Florina Asfour
Carole von Ziegler
Hannes Lukesch
Céline Berberat
Chiara Gloor
Moritz Schmidlin
Blanca Bosshard
Nicola Moos
Laura Oberholzer
Joel Vetter
Ilenia Buzzi
Christelle Paroz
Miro Frei
Miriam Kreysel
Charlotte Neyenhuys
Laura Imperiali
Salim Umar
S.Mischler
Gabriel Eggenschwyler
Elena Geser
Robin Staubli
Liuba Kharisova
Morris Widmer
Selina Frauenfelder
Rosanna Novo
Pedro Tosatto Siedel

The Studio
Building communities implies creating relationships that hold together people and things from different backgrounds and different times, a community between new and old neighbours, between new and old fragments of a built city in which, in the end, everyone, people and things, live in a new unity.

We understand urban rehabilitation as the balance between the recovery of a physical fabric and a social fabric: both complement each other and work at the same time. To read the memory contained in buildings and in people is to think about a future that counts on that past.

The ‘Building Communities’ Studio works with two parallel objectives:

The recovery of a fragmented urban fabric, studying the possibilities of rehabilitation from the insertion of new programs, where housing will be the main but not the only one. The concrete tests of physical transformation of existing structures for the incorporation of houses or other complementary programs, within criteria of sustainability from the rehabilitation of obsolete architectures, is the main working material of the studio.

The definition of the typology of the house and its grouping -the community adapting it each time to the area of the city where it is located.

HS20
The studio worked in Neugasse, a very central neighbourhood of the city of Zurich, an area of discontinuities between urban fabrics, strong changes of scales and programs that coexist connected to each other: the infrastructure, present in the train industry linked to the nearby Hauptbahnhof or in the Viadukt, an elevated line for trains and pedestrians with shops and cafes under it; the housing program, visible in the numerous cooperative buildings which define entire city blocks along Josefstrasse, Heinrichstrasse or Limmatstrasse; and the public spaces, represented here mainly in the beautiful Josefsweise, which occupies the centre of the neighbourhood and is intensively used by locals or passersbies. This park is defined in part by its perimeter vegetation and in part by the high presence of the Viadukt, which becomes an active limit that allows many of the activities taking place in the park to rely on it. The back side of this Viadukt used to be a large industrial area, still present in some huge urban infrastructures such as the Waste Incinerator, still in use and very present in the place.

In the middle of all these urban elements stands the Lokomotivdepot, a valuable historic building of which the scale and structure is guided by what is contained inside: an accumulation of powerful locomotives and long trains behind them brought here to be repaired, cleaned, checked and to get ready to ride again. The scale of the inner spaces and the span of the structure that covers them are defined by the geometry of long movements of these enormous machines, by its turns and manoeuvres, which has nothing to do with the scale of the movements of the humans that live around it.