It is a container, but you don’t see it. It is a building on time, but literally with its site rooted. The Migros temporary, since the summer of 2017 on the kreuzbühl meadow in Hottingen, is in many ways a special case.

inside, it consists of 40 modular units, which work with tag Migros as a substitute loading areas. The case was created according to plans by the architectural offices Haerle Hubacher, and as a result, the provisional solution stands out from the Usual.

A Pergola in the neighborhood

Like a Pergola, the building is located on a triangular plot of land nestled between the pavilion at the music school of Zurich, and the First Church of Christ Scientist. The containers are held in a bright shade of green, a scaffold made of dark-green bar surrounds the modules. Between the bars-orange-slope safety nets are strained, in which 26 different climbing plants to grow up. And because of the temporary restoration came to stand on a Garden acreage, architect Christoph Haerle made the roof accessible, so that the Association “in_between : culture” was able to lead his project mercury garden in raised beds on the roof terrace.

Haerle based the colour scheme on the site. “We have developed a concept in which we have taken on the colors of the surrounding groups of trees – dark pines and trumpet trees, with very bright leaves – for the painting of the facades,” he says. The Orange of the networks stand for the color of the Migros Logos. The boards and beams on the structures of makeshift buildings are adapted to the vertical façade structures of the surrounding buildings.

space for encounters

The construction is so perfectly in its present location matched, and blends in with its surroundings. Therefore, the provisional restoration should remain there, if Migros will in the course of this year their new store on the nearby cross-court. So at least the claim of the two municipal councils, Marianne Aubert (SP) and Mischa Schiwow (AL) in your postulate, you the 5 is. December 2018 have submitted.

With the construction of the provisional restoration has revived the “formerly desolate spot”.

The “write to formerly barren spot in the Meadow” had picked up since the construction of the temporary restoration and put on, especially in the summer months, students of the numerous middle schools in the district, the local councils. Therefore, they are asking the city Council to consider a change of use of the loading provisional restoration in a headquarters and meeting center and a project loan of 40’000 Swiss francs.

In the surrounding Districts, Hottingen, Riesbach and Hirslanden Mr, a lack of Exercise and event rooms, says Schiwow. With the upcoming renovation of the community centre, Riesbach, this meeting point from the event soon, temporarily, and the community center Hottingen is compatible with little as an open meeting place, but serve rather closed societies.

No flats, and no disturbance of the peace

The Migros pavilion, with its sales area of around 450 square metres, suitable for use as a venue for socio-cultural events, says Schiwow. The storage rooms could be converted into practice rooms, the rooftop terrace for Open-Air activities are used, particularly around the temporary housing. Also in the immediate vicinity of the practice rooms of the music school in Zurich speak for such a conversion, the AL district Council.

“We feel great enthusiasm. Every day, encounter new people, what are your ideas for the project.” the

Mischa Schiwow, AL-Council

A group of interested people from the neighborhood, and the city is currently working to draw up a concept and a patronage Committee to build, so Schiwow. “We feel great enthusiasm. Every day to encounter new people who bring their ideas.” One of them is also Director Michael Steiner, who would like to make in the first agreement that an open-air, with Swiss films.

Canton of. interest

time is of The essence, however, because the Migros must begin on the basis of the building permit to the new opening of the store on the cross course with the Dismantling of the temporary restoration The solution must quickly be found. “We, therefore, turn to us for the purchase of the buildings to the city Council,” says Schiwow. It is necessary first of all to secure the temporary restoration. The majority in the municipal Council apparently so: The postulate of Schiwow and Aubert was at 12. December 2018 referred with a 63-to-43 vote to the city Council for consideration. “We expect that he will open negotiations with the Migros.”

As Migros spokesman Francesco Laratta, on request, says the talks are already in progress. However, only a district’s residents do not show interest in nine exploitation, but also of the Canton of Zurich. “We are in the preliminary investigation, whether the property would be suitable on the cross course at best for a sports-temporary restoration for the Canton of schools in the area of peacocks,” says Niklaus Schatzmann, head of the cantonal secondary school and vocational bildungsamts.

transfer to another place?

Regardless of what should occur on the triangular plot of land in the vicinity of the Cross-plots: There will be an interim use of a few years. 2023, the SBB will require the property expected for the S-Bahn-Expansion, says darling man. It also Schiwow is in the Clear. He is of the opinion that the container could then be used to move to a new place.

architect Christoph Haerle could imagine such a reallocation. “Then you would have to build the temporary one but with the same care at the new location, and it would also have to be planting of the façade. That would require a lot of commitment.” He felt it was “obviously great” if the construction could stay a few years longer at his current location. “The infrastructures are very good. There are much more possibilities of use than just the sale of Deodorants and salads.”

The Migros Zurich is, according to Laratta open, in principle, to sell and dispose of the temporary restoration to interested parties. Should not specify a conversion, would remain the Haerle-Hubacher-construction one way or the other. Then, in the context of a forthcoming reconstruction of a different branch of the Migros Zurich. “Would be planned up to five or six uses of the construction,” says Laratta. (Tages-Anzeiger)

Created: 05.02.2019, 11:13 PM