{"id":10298,"date":"2025-04-29T12:29:39","date_gmt":"2025-04-29T12:29:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.studiovulkan.ch\/?post_type=projects&#038;p=10298"},"modified":"2025-12-03T11:37:25","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T11:37:25","slug":"2274-street-spaces-around-the-prime-tower-zurich","status":"publish","type":"projects","link":"https:\/\/www.studiovulkan.ch\/en\/projects\/2274-street-spaces-around-the-prime-tower-zurich\/","title":{"rendered":"2274 Street Spaces Around the Prime Tower Zurich"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-28f84493 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:33.33%\"><h1 class=\"wp-block-post-title has-small-font-size\">2274 Street Spaces Around the Prime Tower Zurich<\/h1>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\">Location: <br>Zurich, Switzerland<br><br>Project Phases: <br>2010 &#8211; 2016<br><br>Client: <br>MIBAG Property Management, SPS-Immobilien<br><br>Landscape Architecture: <br>Studio Vulkan<br><br>Architecture: <br>S. Hubacher, Gigon Guyer<br><br>Photography: <br>Ren\u00e9 R\u00f6theli, Giorgio von Arb, Daniela Valentini, Thies Wachter, Studio Vulkan<br><br>Details:<\/p>\n\n\n<ul class=\"project-tags-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.studiovulkan.ch\/en\/projects\/tag\/furniture\/\">[furniture]<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.studiovulkan.ch\/en\/projects\/tag\/seating\/\">[seating]<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.studiovulkan.ch\/en\/projects\/tag\/vegetation\/\">[vegetation]<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:33.33%\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-medium-font-size\">Staging the In-Between<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">In the expansive urban and traffic space between Hardbr\u00fccke, the railway tracks, the Maag site, and the Prime Tower, the task was to design the surrounding street spaces with care and character. A core principle of Zurich\u2019s urban planning was the use of asphalt as a continuous surface material that flows around the building volumes. Rooted in this design logic, and shaped by the site\u2019s heterogeneous context and varied functional needs, a cohesive, continuous plaza surface emerges around the buildings<br><br>In front of the Prime Tower, the asphalt swells into three gentle mounds, from which small green islands emerge. Sunken planters contain lawns and trees that mirror themselves in the seamless glass fa\u00e7ade of the tower. These raised forms appear as soft embankments from the outside but are framed within broad concrete seating walls. Amid a large-scale, highly functional urban environment, they introduce moments of human<br>scale: grass, tree shade, seating, and a water feature on one of the ramps offer comfort and quality within spaces often defined by transit.<br><br>As a temporary intervention, the outdoor areas around the Maag Hall were also greened. Three large maple trees rise from a nine-meter-long planter made of welded sheet pile walls. Along Naphtastrasse, the previously blank side fa\u00e7ade of the hall is animated with climbing plants. Six robust planters &#8211; also constructed from welded steel sheet piles &#8211; host the vegetation, climbing up reinforcement-mesh trellises. These rust-red elements harmonize with the provisional character of the Maag Halls, evoking the atmosphere of industrial sites and construction zones. The varied tones of the planting respond to the heterogeneous architecture surrounding the site: in autumn, the glowing red foliage sets the cool blue-green office fa\u00e7ades ablaze &#8211; a seasonal and atmospheric highlight.<br><br>In the narrow alleys between the buildings leading to northern Pfingstweidstrasse, mobile planters with small, multi-stemmed trees structure the space. Specially designed metal containers, filled with tree substrate and gravel, symbolize the tension between dense urban surfaces and soft, green intervention.<br><br>The landscape design navigates between permanence and temporality, where carefully crafted interventions blend with provisional elements &#8211; sometimes revealing that what is meant to be temporary can resonate more deeply, both spatially and atmospherically, than the finished form itself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p 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