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Residential Complex “In Gärten”, Winterthur, Zurich, Switzerland

www.neulandarch.com

Plage des Eaux-Vives

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WolkenWerk

mavo.la

Zwicky Viaduct Space – A living room for the community

studiovulkan.ch/en

The project is a poetic response to a palimpsest of natural and human-driven processes that shaped the site. One physical corpus was made by two different forces. The narrative states that the general perception of the artificial hill and the surrounding forest is a natural environment. They call it pseudo-nature.
Abstractly, it works because of the contrast between open and closed spaces, namely, an artificial forest with a forest ring and a clearing. The top of the hill is a small circular viewing platform made of polished concrete which references the geological structure of the moraine below the top of the hill. The viewing disc features fog-jets that produce an artificial cloud which acts as a poetic reference to flying, to being in the sky, to touching the sky. Entering the artificial cloud acts as a reference to moving through clouds when travelling by plane.
Beside the forest ring, the remaining forest area appears almost untouched, as it is under a nature conservation plan. Hence, maintenance is used as means of design. The project exposes many contradictions in our understanding of what is natural and what is artificial. It also provides a series of poetic ambiences and playful experiences on the hilltop.

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The Park, recreational area Butzenbüel at Zurich Airport

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High-Rise Aglaya

www.lorenzeugster.ch

Pflanzsäulen

www.stsla.ch

Renovation Of The Outdoor Facilities Of The Sports Hall And School Building Kern

neulandarch.com

Uferpark Attisholz Süd

mavo.la

Folds works above all as sculpture-play-scape. While the design tools are simple, they offer a layered complexity within this simplicity, so as to cater for various uses. The play of shapes, levels and morphology makes it interesting to the various age groups of the nearby kindergarten as well as children from the area. The project is about the play between two materials which reflects geological processes that formed the Jura Mountains. In this way it establishes a unique and strong visual language and an engaging playground. On a larger scale it enriches the well-known modernist design approach of the surrounding residential area; the contrast between the orthogonal housing and more nature-inspired landscape forms.

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Fold’s childhood

paysarchitectures.com

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Mr. Barrett’s Garden

bureau.ac

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Krämeracker primary school grounds

ganz-la.ch

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Roche Campus Kaiseraugst

www.bryum.org

Bryum

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Play spaces, Heitera school

vwa.ch

Rue du Nord

www.vwa.ch

Municipal Refuge

vwa.ch

Studio Vulkan is a Zürich based landscape architecture practice. They are not bound to finding a formula for their projects, but rather seem to be more interested in re-questioning everything a project might bring: context, ambience and all available tools for solving problems and making an experience. They are not committed to finding a style, although there is a notion of 'relaxed aesthetics' present in most of their projects that is well-anchored in the project narrative.

Toni Areal, for example, is a roof garden, an urban oasis that uses only time to make itself more defined by natural forces, and one in particular - decay. Exposing the beauty of decay, or decay itself, is still a taboo across our profession; oddly enough, in an age when nature is in focus. Similarly, Park Naturmuseum St. Gallen is dealing with 'artificial naturalness'. It aims to question the occurrence of nature in an entirely artificial/urban context. Studio Vulkan seem to enjoy introducing intentional imperfections, knowing that in this way, their works are far more interesting. For Park Naturmuseum they wrote in the project narrative: "In addition to the predominantly native plants, exotic hydrangeas stand for the paradox of the place."

In times, when our profession still produces a monoculture of ideas resulting in sameness, Studio Vulkan is showing the way to keep landscape architecture interesting. Their work provokes an endless curiosity while also featuring a catalogue of solutions to a range of relevant issues.

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Studio Vulkan

www.studiovulkan.ch

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Park Naturmuseum St. Gallen

www.studiovulkan.ch

FHNW Campus Muttenz

www.studiovulkan.ch

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Garden of Seven Moments

www.demolfettastrode.com

The project answers questions related to reintroducing nature into artificial landscape and dealing with landscape in rural-urban fringes. It reactivates the old river channel for visitors, masterfully combining new modest elements and simple structures into a powerful experience. The most poetic element is the grid of sand - a platform for the river - a natural force that expresses itself through decomposition. Designed as a ruin, the project is the process; full of play between the grid and the river, man and nature. Renaturalisation is not brought in by force; it occurs. One can imagine the river entering the grid for the first time, like an animal released from captivity, figuring out which way to go and where to settle. The power of this work lies in its honesty, taking us to a much deeper thinking about the relation between man and nature in the age of the Anthropocene.

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Renaturation of the river Aire, Geneva

www.superpositions.ch

Wildwood Plaza, Uster, Switzerland

www.studiovulkan.ch

Rooftop Gardens of Toni Areal, Zurich

www.studiovulkan.ch

Jardin Dufaux

www.mavo.la

Reorganisation School Complex Ilgen And New Construction Day-Care Fehrenstrasse

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mavo Landschaften

www.mavo.la

Place Simon-Goulard

www.adr-architectes.ch

Plaine de Plainpalais

www.adr-architectes.ch

WESTPOL

www.westpol.ch

Enea

www.enea.ch

Atelier Descombes Rampini

www.adr-architectes.ch

antón & ghiggi

www.antonghiggi.com

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