Mehr als Wohnen, Zurich - From cooperative to community

摘要

Can an urban development pro-ject depict an entire society and be "more than housing"? On the Hunziker site in Zurich a large and complex project offers evidence that this is possible. Urban microcosm Within the space of a few years the Zurich building cooperatives have again become indispensable protagonists, not just in the field of housing but in the area of architecture in general. Several remarkable projects from recent years offer proof of this. But the completion of the ensemble of 450 apartments on the Hunziker site on the northern edge of the city reveals more ambitious goals: here the concern is the urban dimension of this ensemble.