Werner Stücheli

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Cantonal animal hospital, planned in 1945, completed in 1966

Werner Hansjakob Stücheli (born August 10, 1916 in Zurich ; † March 7, 1983 there ) was a Swiss architect .

life and career

After the early death of his father, who worked as a site manager, his mother opened a pension where all five siblings helped out. In 1936 Werner Stücheli began his studies at the ETH in Zurich , which he completed with Otto R. Salvisberg . After graduating in 1941, he was an assistant to Hans Hofmann at the ETH until 1944 and also worked in William Dunkel's office . After he was able to set up his own business for the animal hospital of the University of Zurich in 1945 with the success of the competition , he was soon one of the most successful architects in Zurich and was able to quickly build several high-rise buildings and larger developments that still shape the cityscape today.

As a young man he was happy to be called to the sappers for active service , who provided the right field of work for him as an architect. In his 46-year military career, he made it to the position of chief of the engineering troops of Field Army Corps 4 in the 1960s . His informative and gripping lectures to army students are mentioned in the obituary.

Stücheli is remarkably often described as extremely helpful, although successful, not interested in material success and with considerable negotiating skills. As an enthusiastic city dweller, he explored Zurich on foot and with the Vélosolex . He must have had the features of an original. His friend Max Ziegler reports on an episode when, after a party, he offered the regimental commander to take him home. When he got downstairs, he was amazed to see the Solex. Nevertheless, he allowed himself to be brought home on the luggage rack of the moped.

As the chief architect of the 1959 horticultural exhibition , which took place on the shores of Lake Zurich just one year after the 1958 Swiss Exhibition for Women’s Labor (SAFFA) , he wanted to stage the journey from the train station to the Landiwiese and from the exhibition locations on both banks of the lake as a tourist event in a city on the water . He therefore traveled to Amsterdam in 1955 to study the canal ships there, which were shallow enough to be able to cross under the deep Limmat bridges, and that is why there has been a Limmat shipping in Zurich since 1959. The cable car over Lake Zurich with the 55 m high pylons was dismantled after the exhibition. As a committed traffic and structural planner, he was responsible for urban planning concepts such as the structure plan for the Schanzengraben, which enables the promenade on the bank of the small body of water right through the city center. He also created the “Red Spider”, the large roundabout, traffic tunnel and the pedestrian overpass at Bucheggplatz .

He was involved in many committees, as a member of the building committee of the city of Zurich and as a board member of the SIA section, he promoted urban development in Zurich. For the SIA, after almost seventy years of efforts, he finally managed to build his own administration and conference building in 1967. After the preliminary considerations for an application from Einsiedeln to host the Olympic Winter Games, Stücheli pushed ahead with the development of the Hoch-Ybrig ski area, the “ski area for Zurich”. In the 1960s he was so well known in the city that the SP proposed him to be nominated for election to the city ​​president in 1963 , which he refused.

After Ernst Stücheli and Theo Huggenberger became partners in 1971, the office was continued as Stücheli Architects after his death and continues to exist under this name with changing partners to this day. The funeral ceremonies on March 11th were another major event: in order to accommodate the 2000 people in the mourning community, the farewell ceremony from Fraumünster was also transferred to the neighboring church of St. Peter and the Wasserkirche.

Built plant

The competition he won for the animal hospital laid the foundation for his career. The facility, which was advertised for the new university location on the Irchel , impressed with its clear structure: research and teaching ( people ), treatment and care ( people and animals ) and the stables ( animals ) were clearly related and formed in their delimitation a functional whole. Located on the slope of the Zürichberg , the university entrance building emphasizes the importance of the institute with its dominant, three-storey horizontal line of at least 100 meters; The central lecture hall overhangs the main entrance. Behind it, the two treatment buildings enclose a spacious inner courtyard, on which the stables are lined up like a comb. However, the final realization was delayed by over twenty years and was not completed until 1966.

As a result, the first building of the office was the Köschenrüthi settlement of the Schönau building cooperative in Zurich-Seebach, together with Fritz Jenny, an ensemble of 25 double apartment buildings and 48 single-family houses, it received the Zurich award for good buildings . Stücheli won this prize a total of nine times, including with the Berta House from 1952. As with many of his later buildings, Stücheli rejected the zone ordinance, which provided for a continuous three-storey block edge, and worked with the means of differentiation by arranged a six-storey residential building on Bertastrasse, which was connected to the adjacent old buildings by means of single-storey shops.

His intervention is very similar, for example, with the house at the stadium, a five-storey front building that relates to the solitary buildings on the outskirts of Oerlikon, the tram depot, indoor stadium, theater 11 and the open race track. Behind it, a staggered structure conveys the perimeter block development of the closed, overbuilt district.

High-rise buildings in Zurich

The Haus Zur Bastei , view from the Bleicherweg bridge

As the first high-rise in downtown Zurich, Stücheli was able to build the Zur Bastei commercial building on Schanzengraben between 1953 and 1955. Instead of the perimeter block development actually required by the building regulations, Stücheli proposed the nine-storey high-rise on a trapezoidal floor plan, which meant that the remaining building volume could be accommodated in the relatively small three-storey apartment house and so the interior of the block could be generously opened towards the Schanzengraben.

The forge in Wiedikon

1957-58 he built the eleven-story Schmiede Wiedikon high-rise building in the center of Wiedikon on an acute-angled triangular floor plan in the fork between two main streets . The apartments of the house standing at right angles to the top are fanned out according to the triangular floor plan. The continuous balconies on the north side alternately form the arcade access of the entrance floors and each above the balconies of the maisonette upper floors .

In the emerging city west of Bahnhofstrasse, Stücheli and René Herter built the skyscraper for the Schanze in the early 1960s. In doing so, he negotiated under building law about the exchange of land and the securing of urban properties such as the neighboring Old Botanical Garden and the keeping of the Schanzengraben free - the high-rise development at other points should allow open spaces in other places - so that he could realize a thirteen-storey building in a prominent urban position rises above the single-storey base.

Two more high-rise buildings, which Stücheli viewed as dominant urban development, were built around the same time, in the early 1960s, when automobilization was booming in Switzerland, on the Badenerstrasse on the arterial road to the Limmattal: One was Garage Franz AG, a Peugeot dealer . For the skyscraper, the jacket had to be used: initially planned as the main agency of Peugeot in Switzerland, after the latter's decision to move to the periphery, an extensive project with a 400-bed hotel, travel agency, swimming pool and shopping center was planned. Finally, the project was resized and a ten-story office block was placed over the two-story car dealership on a quarter of the original area.

The other high-rise, whose client, Alusuisse AG, received an eleven-story headquarters, was also combined with a car dealership, this time for Frey AG. In this project, too, which arose in a joint venture with Hermann Weideli and Walter Gattiker, “differentiated structures” were used: flat structures on the street and the school opposite , with a compression of the building mass of the high-rise inside the block. When the Alusuisse tower was placed under protection in 2013, the ornamental effect of the “remarkably precisely designed aluminum façade” - made of aluminum profiles, panels and blinds, of course.

Selection of works

  • Kino Sternen , Zurich-Oerlikon 1949–50
  • Oberzolldirektion , Bern 1950–52 (with Hans and Gret Reinhard )
  • Bertastrasse / Gutstr. , Apartment building with shops, Zurich 1950–52
  • Stadium , apartment building and restaurant, Zurich 1950–52
  • Römerhof , commercial building with restaurant, Zurich 1950–52
  • Food association Zurich , office and warehouse, Zurich 1953
  • Küngenmatt school building , Zurich-Wiedikon, 1952–54
  • Leibundgut , single-family house, Uitikon 54
  • Bastei office building , high-rise building and apartment block on Schanzengraben, Zurich, 1953–55
  • Apartment house , Forchstr., Zurich, 1953–55
  • Cooperative seminar , Muttenz, 1955–56
  • Bally House , Stauffacher, Zurich, 1956
  • Neumarkt , business and residential building, Zurich 1955–57
  • Lindenhof , district center and Hotel Spirgarten , Zurich-Altstetten, 1955–58
  • Marta House , Hotel, Zurich, 1956–58
  • Forge Wiedikon , high-rise, Zurich, 1957–58
  • Zürcher Lagerhaus AG , warehouse and manufacturing building, Zurich, 1958
  • Zurich House , headquarters of Zurich Insurance Germany, Frankfurt, 1958–59 (demolished)
  • Imago , Tiefdruckanstalt, commercial building, post office, Zurich 1955–60
  • Leonhardshalde , office and residential building, Zurich, 1960
  • Tages-Anzeiger , commercial building, Zurich 1959–61 and 1968
  • Franz AG , commercial building and garage, Zurich, 1957–62
  • Office building on the Schanze , high-rise, row of shops, Zurich, 1961–62
  • Cantonal Animal Hospital , Zurich-Strickhof, 1947; 1960-63
  • Aluminum Industrie AG , high-rise, and Frey AG , garage, Zurich-Altstetten, 1961–64
  • Schuhhaus Hug , Limmatquai, Zurich, 1965
  • Schwandenholz Cemetery , Zurich, 1962–66 (landscape architect: Paul Zbinden)
  • Swiss reinsurance , office building, Zurich, 1965–69 (demolished, new building: servants and servants )
  • Passenger transfer , Bucheggplatz , Zurich, 1970–72
  • Nordfinanzbank , commercial building, Bahnhofstrasse, Zurich, 1970–74
  • Tessinerplatz commercial building , high-rise, row of shops, Zurich, 1971–78 (partial demolition, renovation 2014: SAM Architects)

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Max Ziegler: Farewell to Werner Stücheli (obituary) . In: Swiss engineer and architect . tape 101 , no. 5 , 1983, pp. 68 ( online ).
  2. ↑ Since Salvisberg died on Christmas 1940, it can be assumed that Stücheli received the diploma from his successor, Hans Hofmann.
  3. ^ Benedikt Loderer: Stücheli, Werner. In: Isabelle Rucki and Dorothee Huber (eds): Architects Lexicon of Switzerland - 19./20. Century. Birkhäuser, Basel 1998. ISBN 3-7643-5261-2 , p. 519 f.
  4. ^ Memories of Werner Stücheli. A conversation between Ruth Stücheli, Hans Reinhard and Mx Ziegler. In: Flora Ruchat-Roncati and Werner Oechslin (eds.): Werner Stücheli (1916–1983) GTA Verlag, Zurich 2002; ISBN 9783856761110 . P. 12.
  5. ↑ Hans von Meyenburg: Farewell to Werner Stücheli (obituary) . In: The work . tape 101 , no. 5 , 1983, pp. 68 ( online ).
  6. ↑ biography. In: Flora Ruchat-Roncati and Werner Oechslin (eds.): Werner Stücheli (1916–1983) GTA Verlag, Zurich 2002; ISBN 9783856761110 . P. 9.
  7. ↑ Company history on www.stuecheli.ch. Retrieved April 6, 2014 .
  8. ↑ Competition for the new buildings for the veterinary and medical faculty of the University of Zurich . In: Schweizerische Bauzeitung . tape 126 , no. 10 , 1945, p. 98 ff . ( online ).
  9. ↑ Flora Ruchat-Roncati and Werner Oechslin (eds.): Werner Stücheli (1916–1983) GTA Verlag, Zurich 2002; ISBN 9783856761110 . P. 136 ff.
  10. ^ Bauamt II der Stadt Zürich (ed.): 50 years of awards for good buildings in the city of Zürich . gta Verlag, Zurich 1995, ISBN 3-85676-063-6 , p. 84 .
  11. ↑ Apartment block and shops on Talwiesenplatz in Zurich 3 . In: Schweizerische Bauzeitung . tape 70 , no. 50 , 1952, pp. 710 ff ., Doi : 10.5169 / seals-59733 .
  12. ^ Residential building with shops on Talwiesenplatz in Zurich . In: The work . tape 40 , no. 1 , 1953, p. 8–10 , doi : 10.5169 / seals-30927 .
  13. ↑ Flora Ruchat-Roncati and Werner Oechslin (eds.): Werner Stücheli (1916–1983) GTA Verlag, Zurich 2002; ISBN 9783856761110 . Pp. 66-67
  14. ↑ Christa Zeller: Swiss architecture guide; Volume 1: Northeast and Central Switzerland. Zurich: Werk Verlag 1996. ISBN 3-909145-11-6 , p. 192
  15. ↑ Flora Ruchat-Roncati and Werner Oechslin (eds.): Werner Stücheli (1916–1983) GTA Verlag, Zurich 2002; ISBN 9783856761110 . Pp. 68-73
  16. ↑ Flora Ruchat-Roncati and Werner Oechslin (eds.): Werner Stücheli (1916–1983) GTA Verlag, Zurich 2002; ISBN 9783856761110 . Pp. 78-81 ff.
  17. ^ "Zur Schanze" office building on Talstrasse in Zurich . In: The work . tape 49 , no. 8 , 1962, pp. 287–290 , doi : 10.5169 / seals-38462 .
  18. ↑ Hotel and administration building of an automobile company with a large garage and service center in Zurich . In: Building + Living . tape 17 , no. 8 , 1963, pp. 287–290 , doi : 10.5169 / seals-331663 .
  19. ^ City of Zurich (Ed.): Inventory supplement. Buildings, gardens and facilities - 1960 to 1980. Self-published, Zurich 2013. pp. 58–59. PDF, 123 pages, 9 MB
personal data
SURNAME Stücheli, Werner
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Stücheli, Werner Hansjakob (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss architect
DATE OF BIRTH August 10, 1916
PLACE OF BIRTH Zurich
DATE OF DEATH March 7, 1983
Place of death Zurich