Defne Cetinkaya & Mario Kündig & Silvan Muff
Where Do We Walk?
Its history has turned our building from an efficient company headquarters into a conglomerate of separated and secluded worlds. We aim at introducing the element we think lacks the building and the Agglomeration as a whole the most: collectivity. What is there structurally will be kept and the shedhall will receive a new program to bring in the actors of the Agglomeration. Generous outside circulation spaces will provide access and the stage for a new community to flourish.
Our design reacts to its surroundings in a direct and radical manner by having no doors, no thresholds that can be closed until one reaches the door to their apartment. In between, varying materials, dimensions, light conditions and visual relationships create a spectrum of publicness and privacy that offers the dwellers and visitors the possibility to choose how and when they will interact with each other.