The former reedy marshland has a juvenile urban history: turned towards urbanism at the end of the 19th century; 1955 the first implantation of Swiss television. Leutschenbach transforms itself and becomes an important urban address. Leutschenbach has the long-term potential to accommodate substantial urban use. It can nevertheless be a place for short-term use that gives the area a different aura. The superposition of two strategies for use - one of waiting and one of acting - meaning that the space is not only defined by the built structure, but is also constituted by a multitude of actors. An ordering principle for the other high-rise area in Zurich, which takes this dual strategy into account, consists high-rise as a principle for densification along the streets as well as in low buildings and alleys inside, which give the space its transparency.

Leutschenbach - Mitte, Zurich
City of Zurich, City of Opfikon, Karl Steiner AG, Leutschenbach AG, SRG SSR idée suisse
Urban Testplanning, 2010

office haratori with office winhov, Amsterdam
vi.vo architektur.landschaft, Zurich
metron Raumplaner
Prof. Alex Willener, Hochschule Luzern