Zentrum für Zahnmedizin Hottingen
What kind of a place will this become? What was once a beautiful area in the Hottinger neighborhood with villas and grand buildings is now overused, impassable; it has lost its charm. Preserving the various historical buildings makes sense if the overall layout is corrected, if green spaces are restored, and if a new garden is created. This can succeed if the new Center for Dentistry (ZZM) integrates itself without dominating the site, thanks to a concept that keeps the size of the volumes reasonable. Our proposal places the new ZZM in the center of the arrangement of old and new buildings. Its polygonal form responds to the geometrical layout of the historical buildings, as if it had always been this way. Each of these buildings regains its autonomy, its beauty. This is true for the new ZZM as well as for all protected, and even non-protected buildings. Some of them can remain – they are needed in a city that is growing and displacing a large amount of old building stock in the process. Urbanity and quality of life come from a mixture of uses.
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