JAN BAUER

Familiarity on Kanzlei

2022
Studio Adam Caruso
Assistant Tibor Bielicky

With Max Schubert

Figure-ground plan of Zürich with the Kanzleiareal site marked in red
Kanzleiareal Zürich

Looking once again for new battlegrounds to fight the housing crisis, the stage is the Kanzleiareal.

Next to cinema, club and school it frequently hosts political activism, non-institutional market and trades, pétanque and many more invisible appropriations.

The Non-Complete is a stance opposing the legitimacy of power structures, suspicious of stability, unity, and the established. It suggests constant change, with shifting, sometimes conflicting, translations to reality.

To build on the Kanzleiareal means to introduce a stranger.

Flea market on the Kanzleiareal
Political banner in front of the school building
Crowd at night on the square
Skaters and daily users of the square
Open-air cinema audience at night
Passers-by on the Kanzleiareal
States of the non-complete
Pinboard with hundreds of photographs of Zürich facades
Facades of Zürich
Collage of rearranged Zürich facade fragments into one building front
Rearrange
Backlit model study, variant 1
Backlit model study, variant 2
Backlit model study, variant 3
Backlit model study, variant 4
Backlit model study, variant 5
Backlit model study, variant 6
Backlit model study, variant 7
Backlit model study, variant 8

The faminiar stranger: For each side we read the atmosphere already present and contribute by deploying suitable elements and principles from our catalogue.

Impressed principles
Model photo vis-à-vis: tram street with orange sky
Model photo vis-à-vis: street corner with Jamarico
Model photo vis-à-vis: high-rise against pink sky
Model photo vis-à-vis: kiosk and slab
Model photo vis-à-vis: yellow wall and tower
Model photo vis-à-vis: backyard elevation
Vis-a-vis
Construction section through the facade
Construction section
Floor plans: ground floor, standard floors, floor 6 and floor 9 collective living
Floor plans
Lenticular rendering of the stranger, street corner view
Lenticular rendering, courtyard view
Lenticular rendering, tower view
Lenticular rendering, night elevation