Today we introduce you the last building for the banking complex for the UBS AG bank. Once again with Max Dudler we close this serie of publications about the interesting collaboration among several architectural firms.

Recently we have brought you the buildings of the architectural firms David Chipperfield Architects, Gigon / Guyer and the first of the two buildings of Max Dudler for the Europaallee21 in Zurich.

The Eisgasse House is the last of those buildings. Connected between them with a generous corridor in the first floor, this buildings generate and inner courtyard with public access through several façade voids.

The building is understood as a big massive stone block from where it is extracted several parts for generating the windows, whose frames are hidden behind the stone, showing only this stone and the glass as façade materials. With this strategic is achieved to generate this rough regularity well represented by the materials and its colours.

Memory of project by Max Dudler

Max Dudler’s Eisgasse House, situated on the south-west corner of the ensemble, has been conceived as a stone building. A cladding of massive cast stone sections conceals the window frames, thereby making only two materials visible in the façade: dark green cast stone and glass. Through the addition of local alpine stone of variegated grain (white marble, black basalt, alpe verde), the dressed stone façade shows a diversity of detail and depth depending on the viewing distance. This gives the impression that the regularly-spaced façade openings have been cut sharply from a monolithic mass, thereby lending the building an imposing gravitas.

Both the staff restaurant, MEAL 21, located on the first floor, as well as the staff restaurant below, EASY 21, facing the courtyard, have been designed by Max Dudler. Their black wall panels set a tone of sobriety and nobility. When seen from the courtyard in particular, the ground floor restaurant appears as a harmonious whole, due to the combination of fine cherrywood furniture and the veneered cherrywood counter, which dominates the space like a sculpture. The restaurant furniture is from the “Black Monday” series, designed by Max Dudler for horgenglarus.

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Max Dudler. Executive.- Mark van Kleef. Project Management.- Daniel Hölves.
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Project team
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Maren Jatzek, Matthias Lovis, Vivien Merchak, Hannes Reichel, Axel Schmidt, Markus Weissenmayer, Niklas Bahners, Anna Bartels, Sarah Dichter, Hannah Ferlic, Gesine Gummi, Clive Hidering, Jörg Jakubczak, Julius Kranefuss, Andreas Lamprecht, Silke Meier zu Evenhausen, Isabelle Meissner, Henrik Mundorf, Valentin Niessen, Lisa Onnen, Max Rein, Marcel Rüther, Britta Fitze, Maike Schrader, Nina Barthélémy and Mara Callovi.
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Schweingruber Zulauf Landschaftsarchitekten (landscape architects), Leonhardt, Andrä und Partner, Beratende Ingenieure VBI GmbH, Berlin, Dr. J. Grob & Partner AG, Winterthur (structural engineers), bürgin & keller management & engineering ag, Adliswil, Thomas Lüem + Partner AG, Dietikon (electrical engineers), Polke, Ziege, von Moos AG Ingenieure für Gebäudetechnik, Zurich (building services), Kopitsis Bauphysik AG, Wohlen (building physics/acoustics), Gruner AG Ingenieure und Planer, Zurich (fire protection engineers), matí AG Lichtgestaltung, Adliswil (lighting designers), gkp fassadentechnik ag, Aadorf (façade planning) y Amstein + Walthert AG, Zurich (security planning).
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UBS AG, Zurich.
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Site surface area.- 7,400 m².
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2010 (geginning of construction), 2013 (completion).
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Europaallee 21; new building for the UBS AG bank, Zurich, Switzerland.
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Max Dudler, born in Altenrhein in Switzerland. He studied architecture at Architektur an der Städelschule in Frankfurt with the professor Günther Bock and in the Hochschule der Künste Berlin with the professor Ludwig Leo. At first he worked in the Oswald Matías Ungers office after working with Pete and Karl Dudler in 1986 establishing its own office.

Since 1992 leads its own architectural firm with headquarters in Berlin, Zurich and Frankfurt. After being visiting professor in Venice, Mantua, Vienna or Dortmund, Max Dudler was selected in 2004 as professor of architecture at the Klasse Baukunst der Kunstakademie Düsseldort.

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Published on: September 29, 2013
Cite: "Eisgasse House by Max Dudler (IV)" METALOCUS. Accessed
<https://www.metalocus.es/en/news/eisgasse-house-max-dudler-iv> ISSN 1139-6415
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