Carte Blanche XIX: Loeliger Strub Architekten

The Zurich office Loeliger Strub Architektur deals intensively with dwelling; their buildings are characterized, among other things, by a high level of attention to detail and a sensual playfulness with regard to everyday living culture. Here they combine working methods and intentions - both work through associative and narrative qualities.

An exhibition at the Bellpark Museum in Kriens recently gave rise to the exhibition rooms being transformed back into the living spaces of Emil Vogt's Villa Florida. Original components from buildings realized by Loeliger Strub Architektur and personal everyday objects staged classic rooms and atmospheric living stories that were linked to the history of its residents and everyday life in the museum.

The Carte Blanche XIX now logically moves to the Apartment am Gleis - i.e. to the Architekturforum Zurich. As part of the architectural forum, the interventions peeled away from the context of the villa now point to new neighborhoods and overlaps of use that reveal cultural influences on bourgeois forms of living. Under the motto Learning from Villa Florida, the Apartment am Gleis, as the antithesis of the villa, questions the hierarchy of rooms and common forms of living.