Project:

Tech Cluster Zug

Year:

2013 -

Client:

V-Zug AG, City of Zug

Location:

Zug, Switzerland

Program:

Production, technology clusters, offices, housing, transportation

Area:

166'000 sqm

Commission:

Study with pre-qualification,
1st Prize. Commissioned for further development

Architects:

Hosoya Schaefer Architects AG

Planning Team:

Müller Illien Landschaftsarchitekten
IBV Hüsler AG
Keoto AG

Visualization:

Rendertaxi

Press:

Neue Zürcher Zeitung 22.01.2014
Neue Zürcher Zeitung 10.10.2014

related projects:

TCZ-Zephyr
Mobility Hub Zug Nord

City as Laboratory

In the millennium of the city, many companies attempt to market systematic solutions for sustainable urban development. What better way can a locally based but globally active firm represent itself than through a piece of lively city, in which products and services form a natural part of everyday life and can be shown, tested, and improved?

VZug can make this vision a concrete reality, thus rendering the area a publicly accessible laboratory. For VZug, the development of this zone means not only building up a real estate portfolio but also a network of relationships, ideas, and learning opportunities, which can be sustainably increased and cultivated over time. VZug thus becomes part of a greater technology cluster where related companies combine their knowledge.

In this regard, it helps that the VZug sites will be continuously used. Changes of use and intermediate uses will be made possible, and areas can be developed in small stages, resulting in a mosaic of urban components.

The headquarters area connects Industrie- and Baarer streets with a representative public space and completes the urban fabric of Zug. In contrast, inside the area “Im Werk,” living-, working- and community-uses are arranged in a variety of typologies along a dense web of alleys, squares and intimate courtyards. Existing buildings can be used by temporary occupants and start-ups. The “Loop” integrates production spaces, laboratories and offices, connecting them synergistically by a large atrium, and the “Soed” provides affordable spaces for related light industry. Green courtyards complement the network of connected public spaces, creating small “city-oases” and translating high density into spatial diversity.

Awards

industriebaupreis2020

For the project “tech Cluster Zug, Switzerland” in the category of urban planning facilities.

Publications

V-Zug-Areal

Hochparterre - Wettbewerbe 2, Heft 2: Mai

Projects

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