PROJECTS
PROJECTS
Maag Tower Areal, Zürich (CH)
2004
KAISERSROT in collaboration with Herzog & deMeuron, Basel
The Maag-Tower project shows the reverse-engineering of the problematics of shadow-casting. The building is shaped by not being allowed to cast shadow on existing buildings. This is an intricate process of trial and error - the feedback between simulation and generation. Very interesting!
But you could also use this tool in a more one-directional-testing way - as tradional practice wants to proof that the designed volume is not casting shadow in an illeagal way - especially in Switzerland where you have this Very-Difficult-To-Construct-2-Hour-Shadow-Rule. For that purpose we already stay in contact with the Stadtbauamt Zürich to find a way to improve the performance of testing building volumes according to their tendency to steal sunshine from other buildings.
Partner: Herzog + deMeuron, Basel, CH
Team: Markus Braach, Oliver Fritz
Scale: Architecture