Rossetti + Wyss Architekten AG

Workshop Andelfingen

Workshop Andelfingen
Workshop Andelfingen

WORKSHOP ANDELFINGEN

Rossetti + Wyss Architekten Ag

PHOTOS
Mark Aurel Wyss (2)

STATUS
Built

YEAR
2015

LOCATION
Andelfingen, Switzerland

TYPE
Industrial › Factory Warehouse

The workshop is a statement of reduction of means, creating a sculptured body made of piled up load-bearing elements. Everything that is necessary is there, with nothing superfluous added.

Workshop Andelfingen
Workshop Andelfingen

The only wooden structure relates to the oldest buildings in Switzerland and is AAA sustainable. The timber used regrows in Switzerland in 18 minutes"".

Mark Aurel Wyss, Rossetti+Wyss architects, Zurich, Switzerland.

Workshop Andelfingen
Workshop Andelfingen

The Canton of Zurich wanted to add a new building to its waterways engineering operations center to house vehicles and machines and to serve as a workshop for carrying out detail work.

The concept for the building draws on traditional agricultural construction while at the same time, so to speak, realizing a childhood dream: stacking up and layering simple wooden blocks to build an elementary structure.

Workshop Andelfingen
Workshop Andelfingen

The workshop is made up of 36 solid wood elements. Each element has its own structural effect, protecting the space and forming part of the whole.

Everything that is necessary is there, with nothing superfluous added. The solid timber support structure is visible both inside and out. Restraint is the creative byword here. But the simplicity is anything but ordinary.

The workshop draws on the principles of log construction taking it to new and undreamt-of dimensions. The wooden elements can be interconnected on the building site in only two days, so that what are for the most part soft components come together to form a stable structure.

Workshop Andelfingen


Workshop Andelfingen
Workshop Andelfingen


Workshop Andelfingen

Rossetti + Wyss Architekten AG
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