buildings

Type: Kindergarden Scope: Competition Entry Location: Philippsburg/D Client: Stadt Philippsburg Collaborator: metris architekten Team: Stefan Werrer, Thorsten Erl, Andreas Bartels, Lars Otte program: integrative Kindergarden with 9 groups Size: 1.600 sqm Cost: EUR 2,1 Mio Period: Oct - Nov 2008 Status: finished

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Type: Sustainable Student Housing Scope: Competition Entry Location: Zurich/CH Client: ETH Immobilien Collaborator: metris architekten Team: Stefan Werrer, Thorsten Erl, Andreas Bartels, Susan Eipper, Tim Namy, Marcelo Rivera Consultant: Heinz Richter, Basler + Partner, Helmut Zeitter, Ingenieurbüro Wagner Zeitter, Michael Glück, Glück Landschaftsarchitektur program: 392 student housing units + services Size: 16.800 sqm Cost: EUR 18,0 Mio Period: Jan - May 2008 Status: finished

The competition "student housing for the ETH Science City" was challenging participants to design a habitat for the international young researchers. Our project is situated at the edge of the Science City and thus forming a visual link between the city and the campus at Hönggerberg. With its iconic design it represents the ETH's ambition in the global competition of science cities

Derived from a standard perimeter block a sculptural volume is shaped by rotating and folding, resulting in an hybrid that continues the urban texture but also marks the entrance to the campus.

With its sculptural appearance and its height, Hochstapler has the potential to develop a strong new identity for the ETH.

Hochstapler offers a fantastic panoramic view of the entire city of Zurich and its lake. A garden in the courtyard forms the center for activities in summer. Common spaces and rooms are oriented towards this space

Hochstapler is literally a stack of wood. With its 10 storeys it is technically a highrise building and thus a prototyp for new innovative prefab wood strucutres that show the potential of this material

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Type: Experimental Housing Scope: Competition Entry, Project Development Location: Almere/NL Client: Municipality Almere Collaborator: MBA/S Team: Stefan Werrer, Matthias Bauer Consultant: Switbert Greiner, greinerengineering Size: 50 sqm Cost: EUR 120.000 Period: since May 2006 Status: Winner, Fonds BKVB Prize, ongoing

The competition "Simplicity" was initiated in 2006 by Comité de Fantasie and organized in association with CASla within the tradition of experimental housing areas in Almere which has resulted in the widely acclaimed locations De Fantasie and De Realiteit in Almere.

Situated in a unique location on a clearing in the woods the 12 chosen designs will form a new sustainable neighbourhood for individual housing desires and imagination.

With freedom from welfare supervision and only few commitments towards building regulations Simplicity aims to show the potentials of private initiatives on the housing market.

convertible house #1 is an adaptable housing unit. It is an experiment aiming at a simple yet flexible solution for the complexity of contemporary housing.

The constantly changing intensity of use in relation to season, weather and number of inhabitants and guests is facilitated by the variability of the inhabitable volume.

This variability is the result of the combination of a fixed and a mobile volume on rails. The fixed volume contains all necessary functions and installations whereas the mobile volume offers flexible space for circulation and living.. Kitchen, bathroom, heating, walking closet and beds are integrated into specially shaped cocoons.

There are 2 different radical modes with each its own delicate relation between inside and outside: the convertible house #1 oscillates between monolithic and wide-open.

In wide-open mode the convertible house #1 changes into a open floorplan with a collective patio. This patio offers open-air qualities and can be covered with parasols.

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Type: Facade Retrofit Scope: Planning, Detailing and Construction Location: Überlingen/D Client: Georg Raidl Collaborator: Dirk Harder Team: Stefan Werrer, Dirk Harder Surface: 600 sqm Cost: EUR 11.000 Period: Aug - Sep 1995 Status: realised

The existing balloon frame building from the 1950s is located in a postwar refugee neighbourhood which has become more and more gentrified.

The new owner who inherited the house from an old lady wanted not only to upgrade the facade to modern standards but also to make a statement towards all the new villas around. We chose to give the house a new bright yellow wooden facade and a new balcony with lake view.

Type: experimental structure for light-space research Scope: Planning, Detailing and Construction Location: Stuttgart/D Client: Universität Stuttgart Team: Stefan Werrer, Sophia Ben Yedder, Hansjörg Broda, Peter v. Erdmannsdorff, Markus Gromann, Axel Häussler, Doris Halle, Alexander Saul, Andrea Schefenacker, Gregor Scholz, Boris Tschernach, German Wehle, Frank Wössner, Jochen Würth Size: 49 sqm Cost: EUR 65.000 Period: Jun - Sep 1995 Status: realised

Originating from the intention to experiment on the perception of space in relation to light, this temporary building was conceived and constructed as a laboratory.

With its scaffolding structure, removable wooden panels and a textile cover this cube of approximately 7x7x7m was an attraction during the summer of 1995 to both tourists and students. A documentary on the building process and research has been published on VHS.