Within two seminar weeks, two chairs at ETH Zürich developed a series of umbrella-like roofs for the Kernstrasse school in Zürich. In close collaboration with the City of Zürich a steel construction from 15 single roofs was designed. The rain water is drained from roof to roof. In the second week the design was accomplished at a professional workshop. During the course the students could learn all kinds of metal processing: Laser cutting, CNC-bending, plasma cutting, welding.
ETH Zürich: Maud Châtelet, Barbara Wiskemann (Prof. Andrea Deplazes, Chair of Architecture and Construction I/II), Christoph Schindler, Oskar Zieta (Prof. Dr. Ludger Hovestadt, Chair of CAAD)
Students: Corinne Aebischer, Roman Bieri, Raphael Bollhalder, Benjamin Bollmann, Simone Buchmann, Rosanna Valeria Borsotti, Silja Ebert, Manuel Gross, Jens Jaschek, Michael Keller, Simon Krauss, Fabian Landolt, Emil Legat, Lorenz Leuenberger, Mirjam Kägi, Thomas Raoseta, Michael Reiterer, Pascal Rosé, Michael Schiess, Mick Schneider, Stefan Vetsch, Milena Vultecic, Samuel Waehry, Christian Walser, Arne Weiss.
Special thanks to Blechteam GmbH, If Ebnöther, Thomas Jost and Patrick Gartmann.
Zürich 2006
Publication
C. Schindler and B. Wiskemann (eds.): 1:1 Metalworks : Eine analog-digitale Baustelle. Zürich: gta Verlag 2007
C. Schindler, M. Châtelet, B. Wiskemann, O.Zieta Umbrella Schoolyard Roofs in Zürich – Reflecting on a 1:1 Seminar with Digital Sheet Metal Fabrication. In: Predicting the Future [25th eCAADe Conference Proceedings / ISBN 978-0-9541183-6-5] Frankfurt am Main (Germany) 26-29 September 2007, pp. 35-42 pdf, 328 KB
