House A4 «am Rietpark»

Schlieren, Switzerland
Photo © Hannes Henz
Architects
Galli Rudolf
Year
2006 – 2009
Team
Matthias Amsler, Esther Bärfuss, Andreas Feurer, Dirk Hamdorf, Stefanie Brunner, Alessia Geisshüsler, Susanne Häbold, Rina Nagel, Fabienne Siegenthaler
Total contractor
Halter AG, Zurich
Civil engineer
HMK Kuhn AG, Dietikon
Building technology
Ahochn AG, Dübendorf
Electrical engineering
R + B Engineering AG, Brugg
Acoustic and building physics
Kopitsis Bauphysik AG, Wohlen
Landscape
Andreas Geser Landschaftsarchitekten, Zurich

As the initial project, the house on site A4 served as both signal and impulse for the development of the whole area. Like all of the four houses, this building also comprises only two staircases. Single-story and maisonette apartments are interwoven in a complex manner, sometimes revolving around a prominent double-story open air space. The striking silhouette of the L-shaped high-rise figure with the pitched rooflines over the lower structure create subtle light effects on the surface of the facade’s eggshell-white Eternit panels and the ornamentally perforated aluminum sheets of the balcony parapets.

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