“sue&til” – New City of Wood: A Hybrid Cluster

Middle Density, Project, Technology and fabrication, Territory and mobility, Urban Paradigms, weberbrunner architekten

Apartment, Cluster, Collective housing, Functional unit, Interstitial Space, Mixed use, Project, Residential, Switzerland, Timber, Timber Structure, Urban Configurations, Urban Dialogue, Volume, Winterthur, Wood construction

Photography: Beat Bühler

weberbrunner in collaboration with soppelsa architekten won the commissioned study “Housing development with commercial areas in Neuhegi, Winterthur” in November 2013. According to the tender, around 300 residential units, ground floor public-oriented commercial space, and an underground car park with around 200 parking spaces were to be built on two plots.

The meandering perimeter block figure creates an urban pocket park on Sulzer-Allee, defines an inner courtyard divided into three areas, and forms the final key element in the “hybrid cluster” masterplanning scheme.