The existing apartment and commercial building dating from 1900 was part of a protected building ensemble situated in the city center. The task was to converse this building. During an extensive analysis of said building?s structure, planners determined that the historical structure was in a poor state.

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Architects: Gautschi Lenzin Schenker Architects

Location: Bahnhofstrasse, 5000 Aarau, Switzerland

Project Year: 2017

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Text description provided by the architects. The existing apartment and commercial building dating from 1900 was part of a protected building ensemble situated in the city center. The task was to converse this building. During an extensive analysis of said building?s structure, planners determined that the historical structure was in a poor state.
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The committee for urban design and the committee of preservation of historical buildings in the county agreed that a new building is the appropriate solution.The design was based on the idea that the new building should continue to be part of the existing ensemble, which was a set of three attached houses.

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The characteristics of the ensemble is the horizontal arrangement, the sectioning into three parts; base, middle and roof section and the ...