colours

Lichträume als Orientierungshilfen
Wohnhäuser Alte Landstrasse, Kloten

Mit nur drei Treppenhäusern 108 Wohnungen erschliessen!
Damit diese Idee überzeugend gelingt, haben wir in jedes Treppenhaus drei vertikale Lichträume eingebaut. Darin wird Tageslicht bis in das zweite Untergeschoss geführt.

Zusätzlich wird die Chance genutzt diese Schächte mit unterschiedlichen, starken Farben auszumalen. Diese stehen im Kontrast zur zurückhaltenden Farbigkeit und Materialisierung der Erschliessungsgänge.

Abgerundete Öffnungen strahlen bunt in die Wege zu den Wohnungen. Wegen der «runden Ecken» kann das Auge diese Räume nicht mehr verorten. Die Wirkung ist verblüffend und das Heimkommen erinnert an das Begehen einer Kunstinstallation des grossen James Turell.

Colourful day-to-day-life
Geistlich housing complex, Schlieren

A spacious entrance hall, accessible from the park and the street, characterizes the residential development. Two differently designed courtyards illuminate the four-metre-high hall. Ten staircases are grouped around this versatile space and provide access to more than 200 apartments. Each staircase is painted in a different – but similar – colour: an intensive colour scheme which provides each apartment entrance with its own individual address. From a Swiss perspective, this is uncommon and cheerful. That’s the way we want it.

03 190301 GAS 51 285 TH10 Malerarbeiten Treppenhaus 10 Kopie

Raw sawed meets Pop Art

Two houses, Sägestrasse in Kreuzlingen, Germany

Three different access systems at one fell swoop: An open gallery, a staircase and a 'rue intérieure' (a street-like corridor). – How does the light get in? "Our skylights" exclusivley shed their sunlight on surfaces that we traditionally have painted in colour! Spiced with a lot of Roesch. And polychromy lures us forever.

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Colours (almost) don’t cost anything - or "think pink!"
Binz111 – two residential buildings for students and staff of the University Hospital, Zurich

Cost pressures were omnipresent. Only by choosing an extremely rational design, reduction to the bare essentials and prefabrication were we able to meet the strict cost requirements. Nevertheless, we managed to build our "Goethe Staircase" and created an outdoor space that finally turned the non-place into a good place. Few, but carefully chosen colours support the spatial ideas and create a mood that does not really fit into the beige of Zurich.

Binz Peter Roesch F Farbstudienkonzept Binz Fassade Braun image 19 v2

Binz allg Materialfarbkonzept Auslegeordnung v4

Binz Goethetreppe 1 Skizze Peter R hell v5

Binz Goethetreppe 2 Modell 2 Peter R abstrakt flache Abwicklung v4

BINZ Goethetreppe 4 Modelll 4 Karton 3D v4

A laudatory speech by Patrick Gmür for artist and friend Peter Roesch on the occasion of the presentation of the Lucerne Culture Prize on 19 October 2017

"Certainly a well-considered intention: The Cultural Award ceremony for Lucerne artist Peter Roesch is accompanied by a Bob Dylan song. "Buckets of Rain", a children's rhyme for adults, is performed by singer Pink Spider in a bewitchingly beautiful way. This piece of music fits perfectly, as if Bob Dylan had thought of today's ceremonial act when composing his song in 1974".

It's about space!
Conversion and extension of Scherr school building, Zurich

"Creature Comforts", a stop-motion film by Nick Park (creator of Wallace & Gromit), contains a humorous sequence. A Brazilian puma is interviewed – in a European zoo. "It's about space!" the puma speaks into the microphone, with a lovely accent.
This statement stands for the coloured interiors. Here we have pulled out all the stops of a colour and light direction. In this way, break halls and access areas can be experienced spatially. But the best thing is: they move people's minds. Important: Architecture should touch the soul.

Peter Roesch Skizzen Schrift Schulhaus Scherr Zuckerwuerfel Silberkrone Malerbuersten Pinselstrich

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Counterpoint: Restrained materialization & colours
Hard Turm Park residential building and office building, Zurich

The mineral materialization and the bright tonality mainly serve two purposes: on the one hand, the finely graded grey and white tones emphasize the plasticity of the characterful building. On the other hand, the sandblasted and polished concrete elements of the loggias refine the conventional materialization of the house and create a visual connection to the office building.

BFA1 Fassade Boden Beton Kunsstein VERGLEICH MUSTERSAMMLUNG Kopie v2

BFA1 Fassade Fenster Modell Bemusterung bearbs v2

BFA1 Modell Wohn Hartbeton bearb s Var2 v2

Colour frenzy
JAMES residential building and commercial development, Zurich

For eight years we have been intensively occupied with this superstructure. As planners with overall responsibility, we succeeded in achieving a creative dynamic between all those involved in the construction. The 18 Mexican colours that we selected together with our friend, the artist Peter Roesch, testify to the atmosphere at that time. More than that: These colours lend the three buildings, both inside and out, an identity that is still unique in Zurich today.

James Eckhaus Veloraum 1 Skizze Patrick Gmuer Eckhaus Veloraumdecke u Wand v3

James Eckhaus Veloraum 3 RESULTAT GEBAUT RFA Roger Frei 9429 v2

James Eckhaus Erschliessungen 2 FERTIG GEBAUT Caesar Zumthor IMG 9709 v3

Wright meets Barragán
Hirschi apartment house, Adligenswil

Frank Lloyd Wright built wonderful and impressive prairie houses. Along with the work on the building sections and the sophisticated topography, they served as models for our design. But it's not just that. During the planning time, the client's oldest son got married to a Mexican woman. Reason for us to experiment with a Mexican colour palette from the 1950s, according to the motto: Wright meets Barragán!