Romanshorn

Town Hall and Public Library, Romanshorn
Open Competition, 2024, with Katharina Leuschner

The design emphasizes activating the square as the city's urban center, creating a vibrant, year-round meeting point for residents. Centrally located, the hall mediates between public space and the city hall, featuring a small café and multifunctional space for workshops, concerts, readings, and markets.
The hall's permeable structure blends interior and exterior spaces, providing scale and context. Exterior spaces around the city hall connect with the surrounding streets and squares. The library, located in the dual-gabled attic, offers a contemplative retreat.
The city hall frames urban activity, with offices, a bank, and tenant spaces accessed from the south via the forecourt, serving as an address and meeting point. The building's contemporary architecture emphasizes transparency and sustainability, with large wooden windows and cathedral glass balustrades. The hybrid timber-concrete construction allows for large spans and a flexible, prefabricated skeletal structure. Its compact design minimizes the footprint and offers short internal paths and diverse views.

Karlsruhe

Housing and Commerce Complex Greenville, Karlsruhe
Invited Competition, 2023

Located on a former airfield northwest of Karlsruhe, "Greenville" is an ecologically oriented urban extension. By introducing an independent, rectangular order, the urban plan discontinues the star-shaped pattern of the historic center, emphasizing the surrounding nature reserve.
At the intersection of urban demarcation lines, the district square offers residents a main contact point for everyday life and social interactions. It also serves as the neighborhood's sound chamber, resonating community, social life, and urban identity.
The proposed building, the northern spatial boundary, features lively, delicate architecture. The orthogonal figure illustrated in the development plan is superimposed with circular shapes, dividing the building into two segments.
These “unequal twins” vary in typological order, proportion, and height. In the west, access to apartments is via staircases with a communal entrance hall. In the east, access is through an access gallery. Despite their sparse design, the apartments offer architectural generosity through diagonal spatial references, layering, and open floor plans.

Heidi-Abel-Weg

Housing for the Elderly Heidi-Abel-Weg, Zurich
Open Competition, 2022, 4. Prize, with Katharina Leuschner

Located on a former airfield northwest of Karlsruhe, "Greenville" is an ecologically oriented urban extension. By introducing an independent, rectangular order, the urban plan discontinues the star-shaped pattern of the historic center, emphasizing the surrounding nature reserve.
At the intersection of urban demarcation lines, the district square offers residents a main contact point for everyday life and social interactions. It also serves as the neighborhood's sound chamber, resonating community, social life, and urban identity.
The proposed building, the northern spatial boundary, features lively, delicate architecture. The orthogonal figure illustrated in the development plan is superimposed with circular shapes, dividing the building into two segments.
These “unequal twins” vary in typological order, proportion, and height. In the west, access to apartments is via staircases with a communal entrance hall. In the east, access is through an access gallery. Despite their sparse design, the apartments offer architectural generosity through diagonal spatial references, layering, and open floor plans.

Moosach

Social Housing Eininger Straße, Munich
Invited Competition, 2019, 1. Prize, with Katharina Leuschner

The site in Moosach is located within a suburban area and lies adjacent to various building typologies. To the southeast, the urban structure is characterized by single houses, while the north is dominated by apartment blocks.
Over the years, a void has emerged in this specific location as dense vegetation, mainly consisting of fruit trees and conifers, has taken over the space. Our design approach originates from the intention to preserve the site's green character while simultaneously proposing a development concept that corresponds to the appropriate density.
This intention has led to the development of a design that involves a radial arrangement of apartments, accessible through centrally illuminated staircases. The high compactness facilitates expansive, uninterrupted outdoor spaces and makes the building responds respectfully to the smaller scale of the villas to the west.
The new ensemble is defined by two separate structures that share a resemblance in both structure and façade. This coherence enhances the perception of the development as a harmonious entity while simultaneously establishing an independent identity and a recognizable presence to the outside.
The fundamental structure of the houses is clearly and almost schematically defined. The organic façade design opens the residences to the surrounding green space, enabling optimal lighting and orientation for each apartment.

Ruckergasse

School Extension Ruckergasse, Vienna
Open Competition, 2018

Meidling, Vienna's 12th district, sits at the city's geographic center, nestled between Fasangarten in the west and Margaretengürtel in the east. Over the past century, this district has evolved into an area with a distinctive character, despite its initial generic layout of block structures. The interplay of gentle curves, spontaneous setbacks, and unexpected breakthroughs blurs the boundaries between public and private spaces, resulting in a unique hybrid urban landscape. This diverse environment ranges from closed and perforated building blocks to meandering rows and free-standing structures.
Meidling's urban fabric is notable for its varied scales. On one hand, the district features an array of individual units that differ greatly in height and architectural style, creating a heterogeneous appearance. On the other hand, it is home to large-scale "Red Vienna" estates, which embody social-reformist ideals through coherently designed developments. Notable examples include the Liebknechthöfe and the Volkswohnhaus by Jacques Schwefel, where intricate layouts emphasize communal plazas and access spaces.
The design for the Ruckergasse elementary school's extension addresses the district's urban character on an architectural scale. The site, framed by five significant structures reflecting 19th-century bourgeois styles, presented an opportunity to harmonize the existing elements. The new building, positioned at the property line, continues the block's alignment while subtly reinterpreting classical elements. The project, focused on adding classrooms, wardrobes, and a student restaurant, emphasizes spatial composition and architectural identity, with patios breaking up the school's mass and disguising spatial orientation.