With its sprawling dimensions and brown metal fa\u00e7ade, the HIL building is one of the most striking structures on ETH Zurich\u2019s H\u00f6nggerberg campus. It was built between 1972 and 1976 to plans drawn up by architects Max Ziegler and Erik Lanter and the civil engineering firm Wolf, Kropf & Partner. The HIL building serves as the main base for the university\u2019s Department of Architecture (D-ARCH) and Department of Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering (D-BAUG) and is also home to its Architecture and Civil Engineering Library. It offers around 800 workstations and spacious drafting rooms, while its lecture halls and seminar rooms have a combined capacity of 1,600.<\/p>\n
The building has been in continuous operation without significant renovation since its construction and is now nearing the end of its first life cycle. Its fire safety installations and other building services are in particular need of overhaul. The building envelope also lacks sufficient insulation, which results in high heat demand. In addition, the building has too little space to cover the current and future requirements of the two departments based there.<\/p>\n
Such projects would typically see the building stripped back to its supporting structure and completely renovated. However, as part of a more considered approach to building management, ETH Zurich targets astute renovations and extensions for its properties. A project initiative launched by Professor Matthias Kohler from D-ARCH and Hannes Pichler, the Head of Real Estate Management at ETH Zurich, aims to leverage the wide-ranging construction expertise in the building\u2019s two departments. While the Real Estate Management department would usually commission an external design office to draw up renovation plans, this project will be progressed internally, with certain parts of the building transformed into a living lab in the years ahead. The Executive Board of ETH Zurich has examined and approved this innovative approach.<\/p>\n
ETH Zurich is weaving teaching, research and knowledge transfer together, integrating these elements directly into the construction project. Professorships in D-ARCH and D-BAUG \u2013 and in other departments \u2013 will conduct research, initiate teaching projects and build prototypes on specific aspects of the endeavour. These input projects will take place in dialogue with the internal planning team, and professors, other teaching staff and students will be invited to participate. Their findings will be incorporated into the final plans and project implementation. The targeted outcome is a high-quality construction project that integrates the latest findings from interdisciplinary teaching and research at ETH Zurich, combining the expertise of D-ARCH and D-BAUG.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With its sprawling dimensions and brown metal fa\u00e7ade, the HIL building is one of the most striking structures…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":31688,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[6],"tags":[3411,1208,16599,16075,9125,3385,19081,2686,1202,19082,338,1023,19083,19084,51],"class_list":["post-31687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zurich","tag-administration-and-infrastructure","tag-architecture","tag-building-systems","tag-civil-engineering","tag-d-arch","tag-d-baug","tag-energy-sciences","tag-executive-board","tag-news","tag-real-estate-management","tag-research","tag-sustainability","tag-teaching","tag-vpin","tag-zurich"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ch\/116223785227117244","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31687","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31687\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}