CCP / A CONNECTOR BETWEEN CITIES
Last September 22nd Mathias Heinz (Pool Architekten) made the opening lecture for the exhibition Import ZURICH_Cooperative Housing: new ways of inhabiting in pavillion SICLI Geneva.
photos by: CCP
Photo: Dmitry Stepanov.
CCP_team, with the support of USM modular furniture, organized a summer cocktail last July 29th in Pavillion Mies van der Rohe, and presented Open Space Connection. The new exhibition will take place in l’Orangerie Spadom (Lausanne, October 6th) and will show 32 projects of public space from Àrea Metropolitana Barcelona and Arc Lémanique.
Photo: Dmitry Stepanov.
Daniel Kurz. Photo: Dmitry Stepanov
Daniel Kurz, Editor-in-chief of werk, bauen + wohnen, and president of premisFAD 2016 International Jury talked about “Swiss tendencies in architecture and the exchange with the Iberic peninsula”, and debated with the other two members of the Jury, Belén Moneo and Xavier Bustos about the influences between catalan, spanish and swiss architects.
Daniel Kurz, Belén Moneo and Xavier Bustos. Photo: Dmitry Stepanov
Mehr Als Wohnen Zürich. Photo: CCP
About 40 people (architects, sponsors, students…) travelled from Barcelona to Zurich and could enjoy guided visits to some of the cooperative housing buildings during two days. We visited Mehr als Wohnen with Pool Architekten and Duplex, Zwicky Süd with Schneider Studer Primas, Kraftwerk 1 with Andreas Hofer and Kalkbreite with Müller Sigrist.
Architekturforum Zürich. Photo: Kaj Blattner
Great succesful in the openning of the Cities Connection Project in Architekturforum Zürich with the exhibitions “Export BARCELONA. Social Housing in Urban Context” and “Import ZURICH_Cooperative housing: New Ways of Inhabiting” with more than 300 people that assisted to the event.
About 40 people (architects, sponsors, students…) travelled from Barcelona to Zurich and could enjoy guided visits to some of the cooperative housing buildings.
Architekturforum Zürich. Photo: Ruedi Walti
Next stop Zurich. This year’s event of the Cities Connection Project connects Zurich and Barcelona. After the celebration of the first encounter in Barcelona in October 2015, now is the turn of Zurich where the exhibitions “_Export BARCELONA. Social Housing in Urban Context” and “_Import ZURICH_Cooperative housing: New Ways of Inhabiting” will open on May 11th at 19h at Architekturforum Zürich.
Each year, the Cities Connection Project (CCP) chooses two European cities to be connected by landmark architecture projects in a dual encounter. The Swiss city of Zurich, with its strong tradition of new models of cooperative housing, and Barcelona have been chosen for this year’s event. The selection of 20+20 works will be exhibited at Architekturforum Zürich and enriched with visits to highlighted housing buildings and other activities open to the general public.
El pasado 20 de abril nos reunimos en bulthaup · bach 7 con algunos de los arquitectos catalanes, para ultimar los detalles del viaje a Zurich. En tres semanas inauguramos las exposiciones “_Export Barcelona. Social Housing in Urban Context + _Import Zurich. Cooperative housing: New Ways of Inhabiting en Architektur Forum Zürich. Os esperamos el 11 de mayo a las 19:00h en el Architekturforum Zürich, Zúrich.
Cities Connection Project no sería posible sin el apoyo de instituciones públicas, fundaciones, universidades así como el patrocinio de empresas privadas. Muchas gracias Gines Gorriz por acogernos un año más.
Kreis 5
The city of Zurich officially has 12 urban districts, called Stadtkreis. They are simply numbered from 1 to 12. District 5, known as “Industriequartier”, between the Limmat River and the train tracks leaving Zurich train mainstation hauptbanhof, it contains the former industrial area of Zurich which has gone under a large-scale rezoning to create upscale modern housing, retail and commercial.
District 5 has been undergoing an urban planning process that is transforming it from a monofunctional industrial zone into a mixed function urban district.
Compartimos el artículo publicado en la revista Habitat Futura (2016 vol.60, pág. 22-31), que incluye el proyecto BADENERSTRASSE 380 de Pool Architekten y que forma parte de la selección Import Zurich_Cooperative housing: New Ways of Inhabiting.
“El interés de Zurich por tener un desarrollo sostenible es uno de los ejes principales de su política. El proyecto “Zúrich sostenible” entre 1998 y 2002 puso el punto de partida, que continuó del 2006 al 2010 con el “Ciudad sostenible Zúrich, en el camino a la socidad de los 2000W” y que tiene su horizonte a largo plazo en el 2025. Fruto de esta apuesta de ciudad en ella han surgido en los últimos años brillantes proyectos, tanto de planeamiento como de edificación.”
BADENERSTRASSE 380. Habitat Futura. 2016, vol.60, pág. 22-31.
Más información sobre el proyecto aquí.