Housing Tower Winterthur, Switzerland Wild Bar Heule Architekten

摘要

Rental housing in Switzerland can be bleak. "Often you have a developer and he says it has to be like this, the color like this, the material like this, and at the end everything looks the same," says Ivar Heule, partner with the Zurich-based architecture firm Wild Bar Heule Architekten. "We wanted to show how you could live if there is no developer saying how it should be." So in 2011, Heule and partners Thomas Wild and Sabine Bar bought a small property with an existing house in the town of Winterthur, a few miles northeast of Zurich, and designed a four-unit rental apartment building for the site where the house stood, usurping the role of the developer to build something more ambitious.