The City of Zürich’s nursing home fund requires a new building in a medium-density area of the city. A characteristic morphological outline of the City of Zurich are the Typologies with internal court and façade parallel to the street. This principle is respected.

Different types of apartments, with future flexibility of easy changes of dividing walls, ensure a long operation of the building. Towards the street, the elderly enjoys the active city life. Towards the interior rules an atmosphere of tranquility, the internal court of the building is equipped with a lush garden, benches and serves as a meeting point for the elderly.

The materialization of the building collects the range of colors of the buildings on the block, as a gesture of chromatic sympathy towards the neighborhood.