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Zürich, Switzerland
Founded in Zürich by Mathias Gunz and Michael Künzle, the studio treats every commission—school campus, public square, or alpine shelter—as a chance to weigh place, regulation, and daily use against one another until a clear architectural idea emerges.ch.linkedin.comgunzkuenzle.ch
Their current flagship, the 10 200 m² Vocational School for Construction Trades, strings slender classroom blocks along a street edge while suspending a public “piano nobile” over gyms carved into the ground, doubling community space without enlarging the footprint.archdaily.com Earlier work pairs similar economy with tactile structure: timber roof lanterns that temper north light, recycled concrete façades left honest to weather.
Projects move through one open studio where models, energy data, and material samples share the same table; weekly site walks with builders keep details practical. Whether the setting is a tight Zürich plot or a lakeside meadow, the goal is architecture drawn from friction—between city and soil, rule and improvisation—and built to serve long after hand-over.ch.linkedin.com
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