Freilager Complex Zurich - Student housing

From an urban-planning point of view, the students’ hall on the Freilager site inserts itself as the fourth longhouse into the parataxis of Part A by Rolf Mühletaler. The Perret-type aspect of the projecting balcony is taken up again, and adopted on all sides, it corresponds to the genuine isotropy of the slab structure. The colour gradations and delicate profiling of the pre-fabricated balcony ceiling faces emphasizes the superimposed expression of the building volume. The recessed wooden façade panels show oscillating colours with the change of light.

The complex floor organization strives to offer a structure of the greatest possible advantage, which is ideally suited to the demands of an unconventional form of housing. All flats follow the same principle: the large and flowing living and dining areas will each have a large number of defined individual rooms attached to them. The structure responds to the density of the immediate free spaces with duplex flats in the middle and a link of all flats to two cardinal directions.

LOCATION: Zurich

PROJECT: 2010-2016

CLIENT: Freilager AG, Zurich

MEILI & PETER ARCHITEKTEN AG

MEILI, PETER ARCHITEKTEN AG:

Marcel Meili, Markus Peter

Roman Pfister, Elke Eichmann, Roland Siegel; Andreas Alber, Laura Kübler, Katja Lässer, Frauke Ries

EXECUTION IN CO-OPERATION WITH:

Plan | Werk GmbH, Laufen

MAIN CONTRACTOR: Allreal Generalunternehmung AG, Zurich

OWNER’S REPRESENTATIVE: Brandenberger + Ruosch AG, Dietlikon

STRUCTURAL ENGINEER: Basler & Hofmann, Zurich

BUILDING EQUIPMENT AND APPLIANCES, ELECTRICAL
ENGINEERING, BUILDING PHYSICS, ACOUSTICS: Amstein+Walthert AG, Zurich

LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE: Vogt Landschaftsarchitekten, Zurich

publications

«FREILAGER ABCD»

Park Books, 2012

Design plan: Freilager Albisrieden 2010 with the WOKO building on construction site A4

ground plan second floor

Floor plan of a duplex students’ flat with seven bedrooms and a generously dimensioned living-room

ground plan third floor

longitudinal section

Part A: front façades looking on the inside promenande. Leftmost: the students’ dormitory (WOKO) by Marcel Meili, Markus Peter Architekten, Zurich, adjacent to the three longhouses and the three towers by Rolf Mühletaler Architekt, Bern

façade and cross section

Stirnfassade

Modell Stirnfassade

Fassade

Modell Balkon

Re-development plan, Freilager Albisrieden 2010

Sample corner of the façade cladding: Swiss White Fir, pressure impregnated, oiled