Max-Bill-Platz
The Max-Bill-Platz is a 14,000 square meter large square in Oerlikon in Zurich . Like the new parks ( Wahlenpark , MFO-Park , Oerliker Park and Louis-Häfliger-Park ) it was created as part of the Zurich North area development. Its construction was triggered in accordance with the guidelines for the special building regulations by the development of the neighboring fields.
The square is named after Max Bill (1908–1994), a Swiss architect, artist and designer who worked and lived in Zurich for many years. After a year of construction, Max-Bill-Platz was opened to the public on June 9, 2007.
Emergence
In 2004, the private landowners, in cooperation with the City of Zurich, organized a study with three participants, which was won by the team of architects Haerle Hubacher, Zurich, the landscape architects Schweingruber Zulauf, Zurich and Zschokke Gloor, Rapperswil. The construction costs were taken over by the private landowners, the maintenance of the green city of Zurich is responsible.
The demands on the future space were great. It already had his name before it was built and was to become the previously missing center of Neu-Oerlikon.
The facility is located on the remaining area between the residential and commercial buildings "Max Bill" and "Accu", which are at right angles to one another, and the busy Binzmühlestrasse.
layout
The triangular shape of the square prompted the designers to rethink the geometry and transfer it to the floor. Thus, on the roughly 3,500 concrete slabs, there are small white, gray and black triangles, the shape of which reflects the dimensions of the square on a reduced scale. The tricolor of the plate pattern can be traced back to a basic pattern of Platonic and Euclidean geometry , which was already used in Pompeii , for example .
When you are in the Renaissance the perspective discovered the pattern became more and more common. The repeating pattern with the colored panels creates cubes that lie on the surface in trompe l'oeil style , but appear three-dimensional .
To separate the Max-Bill-Platz from the busy Binzmühlestrasse, high-born were in irregular intervals pines set. Individual trees are framed with seating made of concrete slabs.
The wide strip of gravel along Binzmühlestrasse is reserved for the future route of the planned tram line to Affoltern .
Originally, a sculpture created by Max Bill was supposed to decorate the square to commemorate the artist. After this idea was dashed, the geometric design of Max-Bill-Platz can now be understood as a homage to the artist.
Although Max-Bill-Platz was built on private land, it has been given the character of a public facility thanks to the maintenance by Grün Stadt Zürich.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Grün Stadt Zürich ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Green City of Zurich website.
- ↑ Haerle / Hubacher . Website from Haerle / Hubacher.
- ↑ a b Out and about in Zurich and Winterthur. Landscape architecture and urban spaces 2000 - 2009 . Roderick Hönig, Claudia Moll, Björn Allemann. Verlag Hochparterre and Scheidegger & Spiess, 2009. 1st edition, 168 pp. ISBN 978-3-85881-247-6
- ^ Eberhard Projekt AG; Credit Suisse Asset Management: Study “Design Max-Bill-Platz” , October 27, 2004.
Coordinates: 47 ° 24 '51.1 " N , 8 ° 32' 27.1" E ; CH1903: 683182 / 252071