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Entwurf • Design Mint Architecture, CH-Zürich
Grundriss Erdgeschoss • Ground floor plan
Grundriss Obergeschoss • Upper floor plan
Längsschnitt • Longitudinal section
Bauherr • Client Bank Zimmerberg AG, CH-Horgen
Standort • Location Seestraße 87, CH-Horgen
Nutzfläche • Floor space 800 m 2
Fotos • Photos Karine + Oliver Photography, CH-Zürich
Mehr Infos auf Seite • More info on page 134
BANK ZIMMERBERG
IN HORGEN
With its regional roots, Bank Zimmerberg can look
back on a long tradition. 200 years after its foundation,
the headquarters of the financial institution now has a
new home at Lake Zurich. The architects from Mint Ar-
chitecture maintained the spaciousness of the building,
rezoned the interiors in unconventional ways and crea-
ted a subtle interplay of privacy and open spaces.
A fter more than one hundred years of history, the Grob textile
machinery factory in the Seehallen in Horgen finally had to close
its gates in 2009. This meant that the almost 210-metre-long industrial
building complex stood empty for the first time since its construction.
Today, various commercial and service companies are revitalising the
premises — including the headquarters of Bank Zimmerberg. The
long-established bank launched a competition for the development
and design of its new headquarters. The one-storey industrial hall was
to be an inspiring place for working, but also for encounters and mee-
tings. Since the bank did not consider the installation of an interme-
diate ceiling, the Zurich-based office Mint Architecture was able to
assert itself against the competitors with its concept: three sculptural
cubes zone the interior space, but allow the basic structure of the hall
to be recognisable. A classical spatial structure is thus avoided.
Without visible boundaries, public and confidential areas are accom-
modated on the two levels thus created. Lockable room units provide
the necessary privacy for customer consultations, meetings and di-
screet conversations; smaller, open units create space for communi-
cative gatherings. A "Z" lasered into the aluminium composite panels
that cover the space-creating volumes gives the new bank headquar-
ters a subtle branding. Integrated Ecopanels ensure the necessary
sound insulation. The close ties between the bank, which was esta-
blished in 1820, and its home region of Zimmerberg are reflected in
many ways in the materials chosen for the new headquarters. Dyna-
mic shapes transfer them into the present. The glass and aluminium
used for the three inserted spatial cubes are not sharp-edged but
elegantly rounded. The piping and cables below the ceiling are still
visible; they were painted in plain white to make the stand out effec-
tively against the new materiality. In the closed units of the meeting
rooms located on the second level, curtains reaching down to the
floor and high-pile carpets not only provide an ideal acoustic quality
but also give the client a feeling of security and trust.
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