Grenzstrasse Winterthur, development of rear courtyard
The four-storey building has been erected on a limited plot in the Winterthur neighbourhood of Töss. Its slim construction creates a sense of height – a flexible residential tower for inexpensive apartments.
Upright large-scale sliding air-lux windows evenly stretch over the entire surface of the building, emphasising the vertical, while the open stair tower in in-situ concrete adds a sculptural rear column. The apartment buildings are simply and clearly organised: a core with the bathrooms and the kitchen splits the layout into zones of different areas that can be combined or separated via doors.
- Building category: Apartment building
- Service: Façade construction/fall protections made of Inox mesh/support beam construction/sheet cladding/exterior shading/railing construction/exterior doors
- Façade construction: Façade system with air-tight air-lux sliding windows and steel support beams
- Facts and figures: Four storeys, 32 air-lux sliding windows, shading, sheet cladding, terrace railing, exterior doors
Project manager
Markus Eberle
Architect
Wild Bär Heule Architekten AG, Zurich
Construction management
robauen GmbH, Winterthur