Study commission Museum Villa Flora Winterthur, 2012

Various extensions and conversions to the original core building from 1846 have led to the complex and harmonious design of the Villa Flora in Winterthur. The same strategy to expand organically was to be applied to the extension as a new element of a temporally connoted layering principle.

The extension for the infrastructure is placed at the north-western edge of the garden area. Together with the ramp element that establishes a connection to the existing villa, a closure is created of the architectural and sculptural garden towards Obermühlestrasse. From the garden, the extension seems like a pavilion due to its step-like dislocation. The flowing, slightly bent execution of the facade on Obermühlestrasse opens up the new entrance side of the museum and embeds atmospherically the large solitary lime tree standing there. The project is supposed to take up and re-establish the already existing areas of the historic facility—front garden, entrance, villa and park—which had been considerably disturbed by the widening of Tösstalstrasse.