Christoph Merian Foundation Headquarters, Basel (Switzerland)
Herzog & de Meuron- Type Refurbishment Culture / Leisure Administration building
- Date 2018 - 2023
- City Basel
- Country Switzerland
- Photographer Daisuke Hirabayashi
Situated between the Münsterhügel and the former outer city wall, the area known as St. Alban-Vorstadt represents one of Basel’s first early medieval expansions and has largely retained its historic character. In 2017, the Christoph Merian Foundation moved its headquarters to a neoclassical building dating from 1865, where two buildings in the rear courtyard were occupied, respectively, by a dental clinic and the Vorstadt Theater. In 2018, the client commissioned the studio to undertake a study outlining various ways of going beyond the spatial configuration of the building, with the express wish of making an urban planning, architectural, and cultural contribution to the city’s development. Having explored a number of options for refurbishment of the existing dental clinic building, it was eventually decided that the best way forward would be to design a replacement...[+]
Cliente Client
Christoph Merian Stiftung
Herzog & de Meuron Project Team
Socios Partners
Jacques Herzog, Pierre de Meuron, Andreas Fries (Partner in Charge), Christoph Röttinger (Coupling Partner)
Equipo Project Team
Elena Klinnert (Project Manager, Senior Architect), Martin Krapp (Project Director, Associate)
Michael Bär (Associate), Giovanni Comparelli, Massimo Corradi (Design Technologies), Jonas Läufer, Tom Mundy, Niklas Nalbach, Konrad Schlüter, Martin Schulte (Design Technologies), Joyce Schwyn, Klelia Siska, Julius Zucco
Planeamiento Planning
Project Architect: Herzog & de Meuron. Project and Construction Management: Dietziker Partner Baumanagement. Structural Engineering: Schnetzer Puskas Ingenieure
Consultoría Consulting
Facade Consulting: Christoph Etter Fassadenplanung. Landscape Design: Stauffenegger + Partner. Building Services Consulting: Kalt + Halbeisen Ingenieurbüro. Building Physics Consulting: Kopitsis Bauphysik. Fire Protection Engineering: A. Aegerter & Dr. O. Bosshardt
Fotos Photos
Daisuke Hirabayashi
