Zurich 10.21.07

Santiago Calatrava's Stadelhofen Bahnhof

details

bridge over tracks

below in the Bat Cave

Le Corbusier's Heidi Weber Pavillion




Schiffbau Redevelopment. Several old industrial buildings renovated with mixed-use. This project chose to cover the entire existing building with a modern facade, adding program elements around, over, and beyond. I wonder if the shops on the interior warehouse space suffer from this, as they get little street exposure. Other projects (not shown) did the opposite: inserted modern shops, restaurants on the interior, leaving the old warehouse almost as is.


Freightag shop. Interesting view from top.

Tram station in Kreis 5 neighborhood. Interesting area, thanks Sophie!

We decided to cut Zurich short a day just to see Peter Zumthor's Kunsthaus Bregenz, not on our original itinerary. It caused a lot of headaches, but was worth it for the immaculate building and details...

...and there just happened to be an Exhibit on Zumthor's work. It was apparently the 10th anniversary of the building, and the entire museum was filled with his models and drawings. Ground floor with his larger scaled models.

Exhibition, Hannover 2000. Poetic Landscape, Germany. Topography of Terror, Berlin. Facade model of Kunsthaus Bregenz. In the advent of 3D modeling and
photorealistic renderings, these models seemed to describe spaces and reveal more character exponentially.

The 2nd + 3rd floors housed a video exhibition of his projects. Various camera angles let you view each building in reference to a plan on the brochure. Projects
changed every 20 minutes, staggered between floors, allowing you to see all of them within 4 hrs. Sadly, we didn't get to see them all.


On the top floor: models, drawings, and sketches. You can see the development of
each project, all of which, seemed to benefit from study models: many rough, crude,
but capturing the essence of the space to come. Like his buildings, the exhibit was
incredibly well thought out and crafted. What a treat.