Michael Meier und Marius Hug Architekten

Description

The Klopstockwiese features a mighty stand of trees. To the west of the meadow, the Sihl flows past, and to the east, ash trees as tall as a house grow along Klopstockstrasse. Thanks to a study contract won in 2018, a new building with 25 flats and a café, ready for occupancy in 2024, has been built here. A hundred years earlier, simple buildings for a construction business were erected on the same site, which was rezoned in 2016. These have now been replaced by a residential building that follows complex building lines and whose typology is oriented towards its surroundings. Two entrance halls connect the neighbourhood street with the courtyard and lead to the stairwells. On the ground floor, a level jump within the flats creates a mezzanine with living space facing the park and a high-ceilinged dining room facing the private garden courtyard. On the standard floors, three apartments are served by the staircase on each floor and a polygonal loggia opens out towards the ash trees along the street. Floor-to-ceiling windows bring a view of the greenery into the daytime area of the flats. Bathrooms, lifts and entrances are located in the centre as the small-scale backbone of the building. Further rooms are located on the courtyard side, which can also be ventilated via a loggia due to the street noise. These create exciting spatial relationships within the flat and emphasise the contrast between the urban courtyard side and the privileged park side.