Concept and urban planning idea
The new kiosk is primarily intended to be an adornment for the complex: inviting, elegantly embedded in the historic complex. As street furniture, the kiosk should above all radiate a new, modern and open spirit. As if low-hanging branches that touch the ground sprout up again, the crossing arch construction from the roof takes over the direction of the traversing people and underlines the permeability of the complex.
The new kiosk is primarily intended to be an adornment for the complex: inviting, elegantly embedded in the historic complex. As street furniture, the kiosk should above all radiate a new, modern and open spirit. As if low-hanging branches that touch the ground sprout up again, the crossing arch construction from the roof takes over the direction of the traversing people and underlines the permeability of the complex.
The buildings are reduced to the minimum as diagonally aligned point structures: They protect the backs of those resting from the parked cars and offer a view back to Bahnhofstrasse or further out to the opera house, Sechseläutenplatz and the lake.
The kiosk windows open clearly to the main pedestrian flow with a cash register and refrigerated display case and with issue/return on the opposite side towards the middle of the square. You are invited to walk through the building and explore. In the basement there are the toilets for the kiosk and the staff cloakroom. The stairs also access the technical room and storage as well as the transformer station, which are cleverly placed deeper inside the building between the existing trees in order to disrupt the tree hall as little as possible. The magnetic fields are therefore under the forecourt facing the street, away from places of permanent residence.
