Irchel Campus temporary school facilities, Zurich
completed
Hochbauamt Kanton Zürich
Conversion and renovation
Competition, architecture and general planner
Conversion of two laboratory buildings and a courtyard building into a temporary school room.
Planning 2020-2023 / Construction 2021-2024
Several of Zurich's cantonal schools will require refurbishment in the years to come. Temporary school facilities are taking shape on the Irchel university campus, to be occupied by each school in turn. Two laboratory buildings and a courtyard building built in 1978 – all listed – are being converted for the project. The change in use requires extensive renovation works. Bright, natural surfaces feature in the streamlined classrooms. The courtyard building, repurposed as a canteen and media library, and central access areas have a more playful feel. Geometric shapes and lots of colour break up the long corridors. An area for break times that expands into an informal green space will be created between the buildings.
