An integral part of the residential construction „Riedgrabenweg“, built by the Frohem housing cooperative; this new monolithic concrete building containing a community hall and two apartments has been completed as the last stage of the project.

Project Name:  Gemeinschaftssaal BG Frohheim, Zürich Architecture
Firm: Blättler Dafflon Architekten
Website:  https://www.blaettlerdafflon.ch/gemeinschaftssaal-bg-frohheim-zuerich
Firm Location: Binzstrasse 39 – 8045 Zürich
Completion Year: 2019
Project location: Zürich
Photo credits: Joël Tettamanti
Clients: Baugenossenschaft Frohheim
Landscape: Balliana Schubert Landschaftsarchitekten

Community Room BG Frohheim, Zürich By Blättler Dafflon Architekten - Sheet3
©Joël Tettamanti

The shared hall on the ground floor opens out to the garden on both sides and seeks a dialogue with the other buildings on the street.

Community Room BG Frohheim, Zürich By Blättler Dafflon Architekten - Sheet5
©Joël Tettamanti

The building is both humble and bold, its form a reference to the four remaining single family homes from the 1930s lining the Tramstrasse in Schwamendingen.

©Joël Tettamanti

Under the sweeping copper roof are two further apartments with their own terraces in the oversized dormers.

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