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  • Centurion Tower: Tight as an officer

    Centurion Tower: Tight as an officer

    With its clear volume, the new high-rise integrates itself as a matter of course into the urban structure of the new “Vision Mitte” quarter. It takes up the lines of the surrounding buildings and forms, so to speak, the last piece of the puzzle in the large cluster of buildings of the university of applied sciences and office and industrial buildings on this site. The building was not named after the number of flats, of course, but after the famous Roman excavation site in Windisch (Vindonissa).

    The right type of wall for every use
    The 16 condominiums are located on the top four floors of the tower, the 116 rental flats on the 3rd to 10th floors. On the lowest three floors, the Centurion Towerhotel with 66 flats and rooms meets the needs of many regional businesses as well as the neighbouring technical college. These different uses are reflected not least in the materialisation and design within the building. The tower was raised as a skeleton structure and completely finished with non-load-bearing gypsum drywall systems.

    The (almost) all-rounder
    Hydrophobised Rigips® Habito board plays a central role in the kitchens and wet rooms of the condominiums. It is probably one of the most versatile gypsum boards available and is suitable for residential, office and commercial construction, but also for hotels, hospitals and schools. During development, the focus was on an optimal room climate and easy processing. The revolutionary product was uncompromisingly optimised for these properties and equipped with the best performance data and a wide range of applications. The board is very robust, fire-resistant, sound-insulating, ecologically sustainable and efficient to work with.

    A lot of planning and conversion freedom
    As soon as a brick wall is replaced with the Rigips® Habito system, the advantages multiply. There is no need to measure and install load-reinforcing wall inserts, because force loads such as furniture, pictures or TV screens can be screwed on directly without dowels. For the same reason, there is no need to determine the wall inserts at an early stage, which increases planning freedom. Habito is therefore as stable as a Roman legionnaire or as a conventional solid wall. With all these strengths in terms of building physics and con-
    struction, thanks to planning with gypsum drywall systems, there remains sufficient flexibility for later conversions if the utilisation requirements of individual rooms or even floors should change.

    Gypsum drywall construction has also long been able to keep up at this level.

    ABOUT RIGIPS
    Rigips is a pioneer of dry construction in Europe and part of the Saint-Gobain Group, one of the most traditional and innovative industrial groups in the world. In Switzerland, Rigips AG is the leading producer and supplier of gypsum drywall systems and a reliable supporter in the planning and execution of sophisticated interior design solutions. Plasterboard systems from Rigips AG are developed to successfully and sustainably realise the goals of customers and partners.

    www.rigips.ch


  • Hardau I is being rebuilt for 71 million francs

    Hardau I is being rebuilt for 71 million francs

    The aging Hardau I housing estate is located between Hardstrasse and the striking residential towers of Hardau II. It has existed since 1964 and was designed by the architect Eberhard Eidenbenz. Today’s 80 apartments are small-scale with a modest standard of fit-out. Noise protection, energy efficiency and accessibility leave a lot to be desired. Since the area has potential to be used and more family apartments can be built as a result, the City of Zurich has decided to replace it.

    In 2018, the Office for Buildings of the City of Zurich selected the winning project by means of an architecture competition: Graber Pulver Architekten AG won over the jury with their “Laurel & Hardy” project. Two structures of different shapes and heights are planned. The six-storey courtyard building is clearly separated from the Hardau park. A seven-storey building block complements the existing block edge along Hardstrasse. Most of the apartments in the courtyard are oriented on three sides.

    122 predominantly spacious rental apartments are planned for residents with low to medium incomes. Single rooms, studios and music practice rooms can be rented individually. Areas for services and a personal registration office are also being built along Hardstrasse on the ground floor. In addition, a kindergarten, studios and a youth shop of the Open Youth Work Zurich (OJA) are planned at Hardaupark. Together with the existing Hardau high-rises, which mostly comprise smaller apartments, a well-mixed urban housing supply is to be created.

    At Hardau I, energy parameters of the Minergie-P standard in the sense of the 2000-watt society have top priority: Nevertheless, only the construction on the noise-polluted Hardstrasse is certified according to the Minergie-P-Eco standard. Because no controlled ventilation is installed in the quieter courtyard building. The mobility concept provides for a neighborhood with little cars: The number of parking spaces will be significantly reduced to 31 instead of the previous 249. Energy is generated directly on the property by a photovoltaic system planned and financed by the city of Zurich’s electricity company. So that the electricity produced on the roofs of the property can be used on site, tenants and property developers form a self-consumption community.

  • Smaller rental apartments save resources

    Smaller rental apartments save resources

    According to a press release , three scientists from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne ( EPFL ) have tried to find out what is behind the ever increasing space requirements of tenants. The background to this is that residential construction is not only the second largest source of energy consumption and CO2 emissions in Switzerland, right after traffic.

    The researchers at the Laboratory on Human-Environment Relations in Urban Systems ( HERUS ) at EPFL have therefore launched a survey among tenants. In Switzerland they make up 60 percent of the apartment occupancy. The responses from 968 tenants showed, among other things, that 40 percent of them moved into a larger apartment, although their household size had decreased. Only 25 percent would be willing to downsize under the same circumstances.

    The researchers summarized the following main obstacles to downsizing: the large living space serves as a status symbol, the bond with the current apartment and the neighborhood as well as the fear of loss of privacy.

    They propose several solutions: financial incentives to move and a sufficient supply of small apartments in city centers. In addition, there should be apartments of different sizes in the same building so that tenants can move without losing contact with friends and neighbors.

    They also recommend giving tenants who want to downsize, priority over other potential tenants. In addition, the current approach to privacy in the entire building should be reconsidered, says Anna Pagani from HERUS, for example "by providing workshops and music rooms that can be used by tenants".