Design not only serves the practical needs of society but also gives form to its shared aspirations. Invited by the city of Zurich in the design competition for a new recycling centre with the challenge to design from a predefined catalogue of recovered materials. The public program is expanded with generous sorting facilities for material up-cycling, designed over an open, mixed-use hall with a 34m roof span. Bundled, tied and bolted appropriate materials into hybrid structural elements designed for disassembly, aiming to move from simply recycling toward circular construction.

With Assemble, Ingegneri Pedrazzini Guidotti Sagl, Koenig Landscape Architecture, Caretta+Weidmann Generalplaner AG