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Case Study Steel House
Housing
Rapperswil, Switzerland
2016-2017
Status: invited competition
Client: Swiss Federal Railways & Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften
Engineer: Lorenz Kocher, Lorenz Kocher GmbH, Chur
Collaborators:
Invitation on prequalification client: This project is about new apartment typologies that are missing in Switzerland and it is about the most radical possible usage of steel. The new apartment typologies are developed for home-offices, apartments for seniors, low cost apartments for students and very very low cost apartment for students. The metal sheets are thinned out to its maximum and start to resemble a paper building. But still, all Swiss building codes are fulfilled on stability, earthquake resistance, sound propagation and fire regulation.