Certainly the place. It was the Falls of the Rhine was a must for all tourists, for each class or a Sunday outing to the Swiss family, grew this in itself as an impressive natural phenomenon in recent years widespread competition from the new - Animation - e interactive. The initiates of the building to carry the plants a little dust affected the environment in general and the implementation of a visitor center before the castle of execution in particular.
To be an integrated infrastructure consisted of a souvenir shop, restaurant and public toilet rooms, and later became a multipurpose room. The visitor center is only a third of its size, a new building. The place was already busy with the house staff, we have expanded and the transformation into a public building with a representative character doomed.
The solution to this difficult task, we could make our contribution to increasing the attractiveness of this important post.
Location
The city has influenced the design.
In our work we give the general debate of urban primacy. In the specific case of the solution should be running and not to mention a less interesting composition values. The historic castle, the Church as sacred and secular construction of the visitor center are alone in a triangular relationship and focus on the tower door. The company achieved through the establishment of the new visitor center as a primary way to organize small public space in preparation for the new palace and guide the flow of visitors from space.
The centrifugal forces with such diverse interests are always great. Meant simply work hard to meet all legitimate needs of both and the unity of the architectural work can be realized. So the basic argument of the draft competition proved to be robust, with only the gift shop gave way to a duplex apartment and released an additional volume of a multipurpose room. A stroke of luck, and we all appreciate today.
Floor
What is the project's relationship with the age structure? Were there any major change project or changes in a learning process, the purpose of architecture?
Even in the competition program for the visitor center, a seasonal planned. We have developed this idea for folding marquees, so that when closed should reinforce the impression of a body at rest. The extension was requested for the building owner to operate all year, and considerable technical demands on mobile devices in public places, eventually led to solid shelters, which are derived from its realization, but the original idea.
Already in the design competition was the idea of enclosing a metal mesh design element of training. The development was that the current solution may react better with perforated steel weatherproof plates for different needs and perspectives, as well as strength.
Average
How is the building with his designs of others and incorporates it into the number of your works?
As architects, we are often entrusted with modifications and improvements. The visitor center shows once again that we give to our individual work, or the integration of different applications in the roof preferences through an addition of different volumes. Maybe this is our modest contribution to keeping the world.
Laufen Castle Visitor Centre
2010
Badgers ZH
Building Owner
Property Office of the Canton of Zurich, represented by the Building Department Zurich
Orders
Invited competition
Architecture
Leupold & Schafroth Architekten AG, Zurich
R. Matthias Leupold, Stephanie M. Bee, Jenny Thekla Leitz, Caroline Bock, Fortune Head
Planners
Static: Walt + Galmarini AG, Zurich
Electrical: A. stone columns, Kloten
HVAC: Home 3-Plan Automation AG, Winterthur
Construction Management
Schmid Architekten, Zurich
Significantly involved with business
Metal facade Aepli Metal AG, Gossau SG
Interior Shopfitting: AG Robert Fehr, Andelfingen
BCC construction costs 2
Millions of CHF 4:57
Construction volume
4'355 m3 (SIA 416)
Price per cubic meter
CHF/m3 1050
