Topic
The transformation of the historical Gruenfels site in Rapperswil-Jona within the context of urbanization, developing infrastructure and the need for recreation. Brief
The Charette is open for undergraduate or master students of landscape architecture and the program will be directed by a team of Swiss professors. In the Charette the students will be asked to analyze the site and develop open space concepts concerning the historical Gruenfels site. The site chosen is about 1 hectare and has recently been affected by city growth and merging towns. Current plans surrounding the area involve the redesigning of the train station and the development of the nearby quarter. The aim is to transform the site into a new urban park. |
| The Kongresshaus and Concert Hall are today a unified and inseparable building, although this hasn't always been so throughout their history.
The Concert Hall, built in the Historicism style in 1895, was designed by the architects Ferdinand Fellner and Hermann Gottlieb Helmer, who also built the City Theatre and Opera House in Zurich.
The Kongresshaus was built between 1937 and 1939 by Max Ernst Haefeli, Werner Moser, and Rudolf Steiger, whose influence on Zurich's architectural history includes the Neubühl complex, the university hospital, Allenmoos outdoor pool, and the high-rise "zur Palme".
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