Gramazio & Kohler

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Gramazio & Kohler is a company founded by the two architects Fabio Gramazio and Matthias Kohler architectural firm in Zurich .

office

After graduating in architecture from the ETH Zurich and working there as scientific assistants, Fabio Gramazio (born July 19, 1970 in Walkringen ) and Matthias Kohler (born February 1, 1968 in Uster ) founded the architectural office Gramazio & Kohler in 2000.

Works

Gramazio & Kohler became internationally known for their sWISH * exhibition pavilion (for IBM and Swiss Re ) for the Swiss National Exhibition in 2002. In the same year it was awarded the “flying fish” for sustainable building. In addition, in 2005 Gramazio & Kohler designed the Christmas lights in the Bahnhofstrasse in Zurich, the interactive light play of which was programmed by the architects themselves. The project was awarded the Fiber Glass Prize , but also met with criticism because it deliberately avoided the traditional imitation of the Christmas play of colors and therefore caused a lack of understanding in many places.

With their work, Gramazio & Kohler realize a multitude of different functions, programs and scalings. This is also shown by the renovation of the Tanzhaus Zürich, which was originally used as a transformer station - a Swiss institution for contemporary dance.

The brick facade for the Gantenbein winery , which Gramazio & Kohler designed in four months and prefabricated and assembled with the research system developed by them at the Professorship Gramazio & Kohler, Architecture and Digital Fabrication, ETH Zurich in 2005, also received a positive response. Here, an industrial robot arranges over 20,000 bricks, each with a different twist, so that three-dimensional reliefs of grape berries are created on the facade and a contextualization of the building's content is created. In 2008, the project received both the Brick Award 2008 and the Balthasar Neumann Prize 2009. More recent projects by Gramazio & Kohler show an architectural interest in traditional typologies and building forms, such as the Riedikon residential building realized in 2009 or the Eierbrechtstrasse residential building project.

Projects (selection)

research

As part of their professorship for architecture and digital fabrication at ETH Zurich , Gramazio & Kohler focuses on researching robot-supported manufacturing processes. In this way it becomes possible to link digital design and production processes and to develop innovative material systems whose practical relevance for future architectural production is to be researched.

Exhibitions (selection)

Awards

  • 2002: "flying fish" for sustainable building
  • 2005: Fiber Glass Prize
  • 2008: Brick Award
  • 2009: Balthasar Neumann Prize

Literature (selection)

  • Fabio Gramazio, Matthias Kohler, Digital Materiality in Architecture, 2007 ISBN 978-3-037781227
  • Reto Geiser, Explorations in Architecture: Teaching, Design, Research, 2008 ISBN 978-3-7643-8921-5
  • Mario Carpo, The Alphabet and the Algorithm, 2011 ISBN 978-0262515801
  • Cristiano Ceccato, Lars Hesselgren, Mark Pauly, Helmut Pottmann, Johannes Wallner, Advances in Architectural Geometry, 2010 ISBN 978-3-709103081
  • Graeme Brooker, Sally Stone, Elements / Objects, 2009 ISBN 978-2940411108
  • Rivka Oxman, The New Structuralism: Design, Engineering and Architectural Technologies, 2010, ISBN 978-0470742273

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Interview with Gramazio & Kohler in the Tages-Anzeiger
  2. ↑ Fabio Gramazio, Matthias Kohler, Digital Materiality in Architecture, Lars Müller Publishers, Baden, 2007