Residential and commercial building, Uetikon am See
02.06.2025
Preliminary work on the new residential and commercial building at 137 Bergstrasse began in August 2024. Using TS3 technology, an open, three-story building with a steel-frame structure is being constructed, featuring the new municipal and school library on the ground and basement levels, medical practice spaces for primary care on the first floor, and four rental apartments on the second floor.
The Project
The mix of uses—library, medical offices, and apartments—requires a flexible structural concept to ensure that both natural light and privacy can be effectively provided. The TS3 system makes it possible to achieve this not with a concrete structural framework, but with a durable timber structural framework. Limited space in the village center makes it essential to build quickly and quietly, which requires a high degree of just-in-time prefabrication.
The construction method
A pure TS3 skeleton construction with cross-laminated timber panels and slightly inclined columns support the library's spatial concept.
The challenges
In the middle of the village center, a 3-storey building is erected in just a few days without much noise and traffic obstruction.
Construction data
- Number of storeys: 3
- Gross floor area: 1,180 m²
- Cross laminated timber: 237 m³
Architecture
HHF Architects Basel
Client
Investor Medpension vsa asmac (according to bulding law)
Timber construction
W. Rüegg AG, Kaltbrunn
Construction Management
Archobau AG, Zurich
