Cooperative Housing Zollhaus in Zurich

The architects only proposed planters, tables and benches for the roof terraces. The residents can appropriate the shared spaces and realise their own ideas there.
The restrained corrugated fibre cement panel facade, visible from Zurich Main Station, conceals a complex building that was developed within a participatory process. For the first time the Swiss Federal Railways and the City of Zurich invited tenders for a building explicitly described as cooperative housing. Small businesses, restaurants, a theatre and a kindergarten provide opportunities for vivid exchange between...
The architects only proposed planters, tables and benches for the roof terraces. The residents can appropriate the shared spaces and realise their own ideas there.