
Vocational School for Construction Trades Zurich | Gunz & Künzle Architekt
Gunz & Künzle Architekt ,Release Time2025-12-19 11:14:59
Commission type: Open competition, 1st prize, 2018
Client: Hochbauamt Kanton Zürich
Ort: Limmatstrasse, Zürich
Use: Vocational school
Floor area: 9'000 m²
Completion: 2025
Team: Sandro Christen, Ariane Senn, Carmen Kempf, Jana Läpple, Lilian Pala, Elettra Carnelli, Gilles Gasser, Guillaume Guisan, Mathias Gunz, Michael Künzle
Project partner: Jaeger Coneco AG Baumanagement, Kollektiv Nordost, Ingeni AG, PZM AG, R+B Engineering AG
Signage: mdbuero
Public art: Marie Schumann (Innenperimeter); Laurent Güdel, Michal Florence Schorro, Giona Bierens de Haan & Raphael Raccuia (Aussenperimeter)
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The “building school” is to become an urban school building. It not only incorporates the urban space on the ground floor, but also creates spatial relationships downwards, upwards, and to the rear. The requirements in terms of location, space, and structure are implemented in a very direct and concrete manner. This makes the construction itself the theme of this architecture.



The slender building follows the street and creates a spacious courtyard that connects to the public functions on the school's first floor. This piano nobile, which acts as a truss frame structure, is suspended over the gymnasiums that extend from the basement to the ground floor. While the upper floors of classrooms are organized efficiently in a grid, the piano nobile forms an open landscape that the school can occupy flexibly.



Robust materials, multifunctional furniture, and curtain partitions allow for exhibitions, events, and even practical building workshops. The concrete structure of this project provides a sturdy framework that can be filled in and refined as needed.








This construction kit offers both a strategy for sustainability and a versatile architectural vocabulary that is distinctive yet open to appropriation and adaptation. The result is an architecture that is not based on preset images, but rather makes the construction and appropriation process itself its subject.






































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