Every apartment in this house occupies one entire platform of the house. All functions, which are shared by several apartments like staircase and elevator installation shafts stay in front of the facades. They build the load-bearing structure of this house.

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Architects: Christian Kerez

Location: Zürich, Switzerland

Project Architects: Werner Schührer, Hannes Oswald

Project Team: Lukas Ingold, Raphael Jans, Marc Leschelier, Hermes Killer, Oliver Dubuis, Angela Schütz, Nathanael Weiss, Lau Hing Ching

Project Year: 2014

Photographs: Georg Aerni, Milan Rohrer

Structural Engineer: Dr. Schwartz Consulting AG, Zug, Joseph Schwartz, Neven Kostic
Building Physics: BAKUS, Zurich, Michael Herrmann, Clemens Moser

Mechanical Engineer: WL Partner AG, Rapperswil, Fabrizio Macari

Building Management: Caretta + Weidmann, Zurich, Nicolas Dassler, Sandro Wölfli

© Georg Aerni

Text description provided by the architects. Every apartment in this house occupies one entire platform of the house. All functions, which are shared by several apartments like staircase and elevator installation shafts stay in front of the facades. They build the load-bearing structure of this house.

© Georg Aerni

Their position as additional building parts has to closely follow the restriction of the building code. Regular structural arrangement becomes impossible; ...