Dolder Performa
Dolder Performa
A former hotel, the Dolder Waldhaus, once highly frequented and well-known, now finds itself threatened to be demolished and replaced by an Ersatzneubau, following the pathway of many buildings built in the post war period in Zürich.
The project of Dolder Performa makes the case for a complete preservation of the existing structure, by encasing the original built volumes with a cloak of scaffolding. In the spirit of Adolph Appiah’s perspectival scaenographia, this intervention introduces a multitude of terracing platforms, aiming to re-introduce the public to the Dolder as a new performative theater for the daily play of life.
Year
2020
Type
University
Coordinator
Studio Gigon Guyer / Prof. Mike Guyer
Collaborator(s)
Cyril Heiniger
Contributor(s)
Kathrin Sindelar, Moritz Holenstein
Media
CAD, 3D Visualization, Adobe Suite
Concept
Terra. The terrain. The terrace. With the Dolder Waldhaus situated on top of a hill overlooking towards the lake of Zurich, this situation has led the project looking into the typological motif of the terrace.
terrace (n.)
1510s, „gallery, portico, balcony,“ later „flat, raised place for walking“ (1570s), from French terrace (Modern French terasse), from Old French terrasse (12c.) „platform (built on or supported by a mound of earth),“ from Vulgar Latin *ter- racea, fem. of *terraceus „earthen, earthy,“ from Latin terra „earth, land“ (from PIE root *ters- „to dry“). As a natural formation in geology, attested from 1670s. In street names, orignally in reference to a row of houses along the top of a slo- pe, but lately applied arbitrarily as a fancy name for an ordinary road.
Throughout architectural history, the terrace has often been a key motif of designs, especially mediating between a spectrum of publicness to privateness.
Adopting the “espaces rhythmiques” of Adolphe Appia,
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the main gesture of the project is the performative disposition of platforms. Varying in defining factors of accessibility, size and spatial relationship, the platforms can enable manifold possibilities for the performance of the everyday.
