Some things were difficult with a bit of distance. For example, the development of a city or a district. For Example, Oerlikon. For example, the Max-Bill-Platz.
Christian Relly has created this distance first, and you are going to get then. The President of the Oerliker neighborhood Association, grew up in Oerlikon, went away, then in the middle of the sixties, “when it was time to take off home.” 20 years ago, he returned to the old country. He was amazed, then, “what’s all gone”.
This reaction may be described as the Oerliker phenomenon. It appears again and then again, if you have not visited Oerlikon or parts of it for a while. This while doesn’t need to take a long time. A couple of years, and at the railway station and has a third under the leadership, as well as a high-rise building. Both formative.
The really big changes today in Oerlikon yourself instead. There are only a few areas in which anything new can be built, the land reserves are largely depleted. The dynamics of Oerlikon, which is the dynamics of Zürich-North. About the new Developments in Leutschenbach, which belongs to Seebach and schwamendingen: your impact you can feel, the Agglo Zurich-North is based on Oerlikon.
Christian Relly, and the distance. He speaks of “here” and “we” when he talks about Oerlikon. He is, however, no one who loves his quarters uncritically and unconditionally. None of the New faces with a fundamental skepticism. None, of the excessive the Oerlikon of his Childhood. Rather, one who complements his Knowledge with fine observations, clever analyses. Relly sits in front of the bakery Buchmann, Max-Bill-Platz, in front of him on the table of the district plan is at a scale of 1:500. Oerlikon is shaped by its history – that makes this scale ideal reading.
For there are always two
divided Since the railway line, which cuts the Quartier in half is. In the middle of the 19th century. This opens up important railway lines. The were originally planned by schwamendingen, was a member of the Oerlikon at the time, politically. The sponge things, they feared the Dirt and dirt, which they left rather to the Oerlikern. This Pushing should be a big win for Oerlikon out. Thanks to the railway, the industry came. What is now called Neu-Oerlikon, was a long-fenced high. Relly remembers: The industrial area was not accessible. Some of his friends from school went “over there” in the doctrine. But for him there was no inlet.
Relly now lives in the old part of Oerlikon and notes: Just because a guide is more a district does not grow together with the other. The railway line forms a border. The exchange operating primarily in one direction: from New to Old. Here, the district Association seeks to make its contribution: the anonymity counteract, the neighborhood feeling, strengths, contacts, allow, the high quality of life.
“problems?”, asks Relly. Not worth talking about, there is no “the Oerliker” problems. If so, then there are issues of concern to the whole city: The industry has not just retail either. In many places it was difficult, not even the Central market square, all shops run. At the Max-Bill-Platz recently, Starbucks closed its store, the Buchmann has now more popular. And otherwise? “Nothing,” said Relly, “we have neither gentrification nor a rose garden road for us.”
change in the Small
Since it is so Old on the one side of the tracks. Alt-Oerlikon, marketplace, Green between small-scale buildings. “Here, in the quarter, all of the moss, changed, today, Oerlikon almost the most,” says Christian Relly. Again and again he discovered on his walks in new Baugespanne. He does not like to interfere with it, the compression was a reality, a useful, but not without side effects. Green space disappears, constructional structures are changing – and thus also the structure of the population.
here on the other side. The Volume Of Construction! Since it needs, for once, only a little distance in order to capture this other structure. The Max-Bill-Platz, on the Zwingli is, is a Spickel, taken by big buildings and the busy Binzmühlestrasse. The industrial past: the majority of demolished. A pity, finds Relly, here you went a little overzealous on the matter. The counter-movement is to the front of the tracks visible. The displacement of the MFO building in 2012 that was pushed to 60 meters in the direction of the city, is the expression of this resistance. The witness was expensive, he should not fall to the progress (diameter line) to the victim. Otherwise, is grown over a little, for this was a lot of “developed”. MFO-Park and the Oerliker Park have something very Technical in itself.
The Max-Bill-Platz itself is landscaped with pine, a bünzligen tree, seems lost here. Speaking of effect: The best of the square of the distance affects, in a drone recording, or the satellite images from Google. Then the spatial effect is visible by the white, gray and black concrete panels are producing on the court.
streets will make the city’s image
Embossing is added to the major roads to come. Highway, Binzmühlestrasse, rain of the mountains, the Wehntaler and birch Cup structure, the neighborhood, Relly goes with the ball-point pen. Too much traffic around the indoor stadium, to a lot of traffic at the Sternen Oerlikon. As some of the Oerliker wish for an extension of the pedestrian zone and other traffic management. “Difficult, difficult”, commented Relly, solution is as synonymous with displacement of the problem.
the other side of The traffic: The neighborhood is ideally located between the city centre and the airport, there are Hotels around the train station and tourists. The were quite visible, tells Relly. In addition to the Bahnhofstrasse and the lake you are interested in, obviously, also for the traditions of the Locals: “you go to the market and take pictures.” He himself goes to the market to shop – and because we meet here. It was in his Childhood, so.
Created: 11.11.2019, 20:30 Uhr
