Nichtoffener Wettbewerb | 10/2019
Ein neuer Begegnungsort in der AIRPORT CITY ZÜRICH (CH)
Visualisation Urban Climate Jungle
Preisgruppe
Architektur, Stadtplanung / Städtebau
Landschaftsarchitektur
Öffentlichkeitsarbeit / Marketing, Stadtforschung, Szenographie
Energieplanung
Visualisierung
Erläuterungstext
Two major recreational systems meet and intersect at the Coop MFK Meet site - the Fil Bleu recreational paths and nature reserve along the river Glatt and the educational and recreational paths leading around the Zurich airport, offering great plane spotting opportunities. Meet is located on a strategic position within the Zürich urban region, thanks to its great accessibility by public transport, cars and bikes makes the local area an attractive destination for numerous companies and employees. The site is also located on the intersection of several important infrastructures and has the potential to serve as an entry point on to these networks from the city center and from the airport.
Looking at the area today, we highlight the fact that curves characterize the current infrastructural condition of the site and becomes threefold design principle for buildings, open space and landscape elements.
Pebbles
The landscape around Kloten is shaped by vectors and forces that are made visible through the design, resulting in buildings lying there like boulders, left behind and laid down for a future in which virtual and digital vectors play.
Deck
The large pebbles are connected by an elevated public level: the deck, a flat surface capable of supporting multipurpose uses depending on the moment of the day, week or season. The users will feel like on a ship bridging the infrastructure and overlooking a sea of existing and created landscapes.
Jungle
Instead of fighting against the infrastructure and current area division, we framed it into a “climate change jungle”, the heart of the project being therefore a green urban theater that could digest other time an ever shrinking motorized infrastructure.
By focusing on these aspects and opening the program up with generous open space, we challenge the typical shopping centers with their internal dominance and covered walkways. In this way Meet offers something distinct to the nearby airport amenities and the coming Circle and target the local community for its daily needs, as well as a broader public. The deck offers an outdoor multipurpose platform through the site.
Looking at the area today, we highlight the fact that curves characterize the current infrastructural condition of the site and becomes threefold design principle for buildings, open space and landscape elements.
Pebbles
The landscape around Kloten is shaped by vectors and forces that are made visible through the design, resulting in buildings lying there like boulders, left behind and laid down for a future in which virtual and digital vectors play.
Deck
The large pebbles are connected by an elevated public level: the deck, a flat surface capable of supporting multipurpose uses depending on the moment of the day, week or season. The users will feel like on a ship bridging the infrastructure and overlooking a sea of existing and created landscapes.
Jungle
Instead of fighting against the infrastructure and current area division, we framed it into a “climate change jungle”, the heart of the project being therefore a green urban theater that could digest other time an ever shrinking motorized infrastructure.
By focusing on these aspects and opening the program up with generous open space, we challenge the typical shopping centers with their internal dominance and covered walkways. In this way Meet offers something distinct to the nearby airport amenities and the coming Circle and target the local community for its daily needs, as well as a broader public. The deck offers an outdoor multipurpose platform through the site.
Visualisation of the deck
Masterplan with Ground Floors