School of Agricultural, Forest and Food Sciences HAFL
Zollikofen, Switzerland
Competition 1st prize 2007
Project and execution 2010-2012
HAFL.
Overview
Client
Bern University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland
Architecture
Boegli Kramp Architekten, Fribourg, Switzerland
Team ZPF
Jörg Brändlin, Heike Egli-Erhart, Rafael Häni, Antje Käser-Wassmer, Noor Musawi, Nico Ros, Christian Rudin, Andreas Schnetzer, Andreas Zachmann
As the existing university complex bears witness to the architecture and urban development of the 1980s, it has been deemed worthy of preservation. However, its rooms only partly meet the current needs of modern forms of teaching. The additional new structure consists of a main building, a laboratory building and two connecting passages to the existing wings of the university. The owner's demands, such as high flexibility, possible addition of additional floors, system separation, high service loads and the Minergie-P-Eco standard, called for a rigid load-bearing framework concept.
Together, the ground floor and upper floors constitute one large truss that extends over the underground floors of the main building and laboratory building. The ceiling of the underground floor is suspended from this truss in the middle of the space. This is what makes the large column-free lecture halls possible on the underground floor. The support system is designed to accommodate the addition of three more floors. Moreover, separation of the load-bearing framework from the building services equipment allows decoupled extension of installations. During construction, trouble-free operation of the neighbouring university buildings was guaranteed.