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In 2011, Zurich-based architect Fawad Kazi, together with the
KSSG-OKS planning consortium, won the competition for the
rebuilding and extension of St Gallen's cantonal hospital (KSSG)
and the new regional children's hospital for eastern Switzerland
(OKS). By 2028, this huge undertaking will have transformed the
whole area they are built in. This building monograph, laid out in
five elegant volumes, documents in much detail the ambitious
project, which is a significant trailblazer in the area of hospital
design and urban development. This second volume is devoted to
KSSG's Haus 10, situated at the northern end of the site. Connected
to the hospital's main building by means of an ingenious passage,
it serves to treat walk-in patients. Its flexible structure allows
adaptions to suit also future needs of KSSG. The interior design is
based on materials and features intended also for the other new
buildings still to come. Text in English and German.
The architectural structuring principle of the cellular compartment
floor plan is as simple as it is economical, yet it allows for
spatial and combinatorial freedom that can be interpreted in
ever-new, ever-different ways. The resulting self-contained units
or spatial sequences are suited for residential purposes as much as
for office buildings, museums or schools, with the floor plans
providing highly dynamic and surprising traffic patterns and views.
The cellular compartment floor plan is the generating principle in
many buildings, projects, and competition entries by Basel-based
office Luca Selva Architects, who have been continually developing
this typology in their many years of practice, modifying it and
adapting it for new applications in different projects. It is
therefore at the centre of this new book on the work of the
prolific office. The numerous plans and photographs are
supplemented by a theoretical essay by Christoph Wieser and a
conversation between Luca Selva and Patrick Gmur. The book for the
first time sheds light on this surprisingly sparsely researched
topic, and thus its wider significance for the discourse reaches
beyond the exemplary designs by Luca Selva Architects. Text in
English and German.
Structural liquidity risk is a material risk resulting from the
core banking business of taking in short-term deposits and lending
out long-term loans, thus allowing a maturity mismatch between
assets and liabilities. At some point the long-term loans will
require refinancing and the institution is at risk of an adverse
development of refinancing costs.This book proposes a model for the
quantification of structural liquidity risk and describes the
underlying methodology and assumptions for stressing the
refinancing costs. The change in present value between closing open
liquidity positions under stressed refinancing costs compared to
current costs is the calculated impact on risk-bearing capacity.
ETH Zurich's new building LEE is an extraordinary project from both
an urban planning and an architectural design perspective. Located
on a slope above the heart of town, it sits very prominently close
to the historic main buildings of ETH Zurich and the University of
Zurich that form the "Crown of the Town". In terms of construction,
Zurich-based architect Fawad Kazi has been breaking new ground.
Accordingly, this new monograph is structured in three sections
focusing on these three aspects: integration into urban context;
design and construction and materialisation of the precast concrete
structure; and a comprehensive documentation of the entire building
with images and plans. Topical essays look at specific aspects of
the project. Contributions by the architect, the engineers, and by
their client round out the book, which offers a comprehensive
insight into the creation of a building appearing at once plain and
highly complex.
In 2011, Zurich-based architect Fawad Kazi submitted the winning
proposal for the rebuilding and extension of a hospital complex in
the Swiss city of St Gallen. Over a period of ten years, a number
of existing structures will undergo vast rebuilding and new ones
will be added, transforming a park with individual buildings into a
single continuous complex. This new, eventually five-part
monograph, documents this project in full detail. It highlights the
significance of St Gallen's urban design as well as the specific
demands on architectural design and construction and on the
hospital's operations. Volume I features the project's genesis and
the initial new building, a pavilion structure housing a restaurant
and, in the basement, an electrical substation. Text in English and
German.
Luca Selva graduated in architecture from ETH Zurich, where he also
worked as a research and teaching assistant before establishing his
own studio in Basel in 1991. Single family houses have been among
Selva's chief interests from the beginning as means for research on
questions of space, typology, design, and architectural
phenomenology in general. Specific topics and problems are
investigated for the first time with this type of building, and
solutions found are picked-up again and developed further in other
projects of varied kind and dimension. Since 1991 Luca Selva
Architects have been realising a range of highly interesting
projects, including semi-detached double-family homes, a house for
an art collector, a house with artist's studio, or a
multi-generation home. The new book presents comprehensively and
compares nine of these buildings. They are documented with images,
floor and site plans, sections, and elevations. The essays - by
Luca Selva and Christoph Wieser - look at the single family home as
an architectural task and discuss questions of design in the
context of historical and contemporary positions. A conversation -
between Daniel Buchner and Luca Selva - is also featured.
Simple, spacious buildings, ingenious material experiments in the
building envelopes and clearly structured interior arrangements
characterise the buildings by this Geneva team of architects led by
Philippe Meier. They are volumes for a range of building tasks,
such as the Oncology Centre and a Business School in Geneva, or the
renovation and extension of a media library in Sion.
Housing of exceptional quality has been developed in the greater
Zurich area since the mid-1990s. Public funding, the high standard
of the competition culture and a vibrant architectural scene has
resulted in a rich field of experimentation for good residential
architecture. The approximately 500-page volume on Zurich housing
construction is an anthology of over 100 individual buildings,
ensembles and settlements developed over a period of 20 years. It
is an impressive representation of an intense, blossoming housing
development culture that has also attracted international
attention.
This volume studies climate as a design factor and examines its
influence on energy and design consequences. Instead of being
abstract and technical, the perspective is vivid and spatial,
thereby deliberately stimulating the search for inspiring
solutions.
Since 1989, the Winterthur architect Beat Rothen has continuously
extended and independently developed his exciting work although he
is often overlooked today. While his earlier works were mainly
residential buildings and estates, his most recent projects include
administrative buildings with an architectural language that
reveals a heightened forcefulness and consistency. Text in English
and German.
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