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“Standortmosaik Zürich” or The Ecology of Access [pdf - english, pdf - german/french]

Jane Jacobs once famously wrote that cities are as natural as “colonies of prairie dogs or beds of oysters”. Cities thus are just the latest of evolution’s transformation of the environment by natural organisms – us. And our most urgent need is access.

In cities we find jobs, meet people, enjoy culture, get in contact with ideas or purchase the things we need for daily life. Cities are catalysts for human interactions the sum of which we variously call economy, culture or public life. Cities are defined by an ecology of access.

We experience the degree of accessibility, the sense of mobility and ease with which we satisfy our needs, as quality of life. Borrowing a term from plant sociology we speak of a “Standortmosaik”, the diverse mix of places formed by locational factors resulting in spatial diversity, mix of social milieus or synergy between different value chains which economists refer to as “quality of location”.

Accessibility in cities is a function of proximity, functional diversity and infrastructure. Contemporary cities are formed by increasingly powerful infrastructures. City and countryside are merging into the urban landscape of the metropolitan region. Such a region is defined by function and the division of work of its constituent, coopetitive parts. As a whole it competes in the global market of locations.

Transcending administrative boundaries and individual agendas, metropolitan regions are difficult to plan. The “image of the region” which we developed for the “Metropolitankonferenz Zürich” aims to communicate the features of this region to a diverse group of stakeholders and give its planning a strategic base.

We describe the image as the combination of structure, gestalt and form: The structure of the region is defined by the terrain, by zoning and most importantly infrastructure. Structure is controlled by the spatial and infrastructure planning of the cantons. Its gestalt is based on the identities of the different villages, quarters or neighborhoods, and their potential for change. This potential we defined by reserves of building land and transport capacity, and by the elasticity of a local identity when changing. Form is in the domain of the architects or landscape architects and includes public spaces, parks, streets or landmark buildings.

The metropolitan region thus is seen as an archipelago of form in a sea of gestalt organized by the currents of structure.

Schaefer, Markus: “’Standortmosaik Zürich’ or The Ecology of Access” in: Anthos 2/2011, June 2011

“In 1975 Rem Koolhaas, together with Elia and Zoe Zenghelis and Madelon Vriesendorp, founded the Office for Metropolitan Architecture. Today OMA is one of the most influential architectural practices in the world. Not only has the firm designed some of our era’s most important buildings—Maison à Bordeaux, the Seattle Public Library, and the CCTV headquarters, to name just a few—but its famous hothouse atmosphere has cultivated the talents of hundreds of gifted architects. Look at the chart on these pages: it is a distinguished architectural fraternity. These OMA grads have now created an influence all their own, and they are the ones to watch in 2011.” (Paul Makovsky, Metropolis Magazine)

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Project: Universum der Ozeane

TV DIGITAL, Nr. 21, October 2010, p. 22

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EAT OUT! Restaurant Design and Food Experiences, gestalten, March 2010, p.26-27
QUINZE & MILAN PRESSKIT, “Make your own Furniture”, April 2009
RESTAURANT & BARS, Architektur heute!, Taschen, p.182-187
CREATE, Eating, Design and Future Food, Gestalten 2008, p. 194-195
AIT10.2008, Büro und Verwaltung, p.82
DOMUS CHINA, “Contemporary Architecture Interiors Design Art“, March 2008, p. 103-107
FRAME, “The Great Indoors, Nature & Artifice”, vol. 60, 1-2/2008
CONTRACT WORLD AWARD 2008, Special merit award “New Generation”, Category Hotel/ Restaurant, p.58-61
AMC, “Special Interiors 2008”, 12/2007, p. 134-137
ABITARE, “Interiors Design Architecture”, issue 477, 11/2007, p. 118-127, 222-223
ICON, Monthly Magazine of the Year, issue 052, 10/2007, p.73
CORPORATE ARCHITECTURE, Praxisreport 2007, Achhammer (ed.), p. 36-47 (45-47)
BOB, International Magazine of Space Design, vol. 039, 2007, p. 94-101
IW, “Interior World – Design & Detail”, vol. 63, 2007, p.48-55

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Project: Airport Engadin

GLAMOROUS, The ultimate magazine for St. Moritz and the Engadin, January 2010, p. 26-31
URBAN FLUX, Vol. 8, April 2009, p. 96-99
ARRIVAL, Engadin Airport Magazine, 2009, p. 2-7
ARRIVAL, Engadin Airport Magazine, 2008, p. 9
HOCHPARTERRE, Zeitschrift für Architektur und Design, April 2008, p. 54-57
MONOCLE, Aviation special, vol. 02, issue 14, June 2008

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Project: Partnership Smartinska

ARHITEKTURNI NATECAJI 1998-2010, Slovenije 2010, p. 166-167
ORIS, Magazine for architecture & Culture, Nr. 62, 2010, p. 44-53
URBANA PRENOVA, Drustvo urbanistov in prostorskih planerjev Slovenije, Ljubljana 2009, p. 103-106
WERK, BAUEN + WOHNEN, Ljubljana, June 2009, p. 19
LJUBLJANA, Glasilo Mestne obcine Ljubljana, March-April 2009, p. 2-9
ARCH +, Zeitschrift für Architektur und Städtebau, Nr. 189, October 2008, p. 37
SAM, Balkanology-Neue Architektur und urbane Phänomene in Südosteuropa, Nr. 06, 2008, p.42-45
EXHIBITION SAM, Balkanology, Basel, 04.10 – 28.12.2008
HOCHPARTERRE WETTBEWERBE, Schweizer Fachjournal für Wettbewerbe, April 2008, p. 58, 59
FLASH, Letnik l, Stevilka 04, Poletje 2008, p.17

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ZDF NACHRICHTENSTUDIO, ZDF Mainz, Dezember 2009, p. 34

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TRANSiT, Band I – Triebkräfte der Architekturentwicklung, Nr. 15, June 2009, p. 122-127
TRAVEL, SPACE, ARCHITECTURE, Jilly Traganou, Miodrag Mitrasinovic, eds, Ashgate 2009, p. 258-272
CORPORATE ARCHITECTURE, Praxisreport 2007, Achhammer, ed., p. 36-47 (39-44)

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Project: Hypercore Office

SECOND HOLCIM AWARDS 2008-2009, Regional and global Holcim Awards competitions for sustainable construction projects and visions, 2008-2009, Acknowledgement Prize Europe, p.55

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Project: Mapping Switzerland

FRANKFURT! FRANKFURT?, Dr. Christian Ankowitsch, ed., Societätsverlag, Germany, 2009, p. 32-35
URBAN TRANSFORMATIONS, Ilka & Andreas Ruby, eds., Ruby Press, Berlin, 2008, p. 240-251
DU, vol. 762, December 2005, p.27
WELTWOCHE, vol. 52/53, December 2004, p. 84-91
DAS MAGAZIN, vol.  49, 2003, p. 42-29