This time we could delight Penzis Bettini Architects for the new building of the event center Kiff in Aarau with more abstract visualizations... a little dust here, a little patina there, just like Zurich architects love it.

The building cooperative ABZ, Kraftwerk 1, Senn Resources AG, Grün Stadt Zürich and the  Amt für Hochbauten der Stadt Zürich were awarded the contract for the four project competitions of partial perimeters A, B, C and Quartierpark of the Koch Area. Around 340 non-profit apartments for 900 people, commercial areas and a public quarter park are now to be built on the Koch site, all according to the "2000-watt society". The City of Zurich acquired the site from UBS AG in 2013. The winning projects for the three buildings and the Quartierpark are now available. We were able to support seven architectural offices in this competition with our architectural visualizations.

Enclosed our images for pool architects, who were able to win 4th place for construction site C.

Our visualization for Personeni Raffaele Architectes from Lausanne and the competition of a pedestrian bridge in Sion.

Unconventional architectural visualizations for pool architects and the construction project in Meilen.

For the competition for the new ewl site, the city of Lucerne, the abl, general building cooperative Lucerne, and the ewl have invited tenders for a new security and service centre including apartments. The area is to become a mixed and sustainable showcase quarter for living, working and leisure. We were able to support a total of 4 planning teams with our visualizations. 

Enclosed are our images for the planning team of Burkard Meyer Architects together with Anliker AG Generalunternehmung, Gruner Berchtold Eicher, Künzle Partner, Arregger Partner, HEFTI, HESS, MARTIGNONI Zürich, Vogt Landschaftsarchitekten, Emch+Berger WSB.

Our variations for the cover of the Hochparterre magazine "Architektur visualisieren", which we published in 2017 with the Hochparterre.

Our visualizations for the competition Gemeindesaal Arlesheim for Anais Architektur, Zürich. The project near Basel, Switzerland, offers next to the community hall, several apartments and some service industries.

Our with Gunes Direk created images were exhibited on the grafikSCHWEIZ18 in the Halle 622 in Zurich Örlikon.

http://www.grafik-schweiz.ch/katalog/detail/869/

Looking into the office server of nightnurse images, one finds a folder named "testrender", a digital dumpster containing virtual models of imagined enviroments. The data contained in each file describes the precise arrangement of objects, mathematical calculations of lights, properties of materials and many more layers of information that constitute the content necessary to create a convincing visual representation of commissioned projects. As files pile up, the amount of data gets bigger, cheap and disposable as it may be, takes up space, clogs up data channels and must thus be maintained and cleaned up on a regular basis.

Relics is based on a small set salvaged from this temporary storage. The models - built and used for architectural projects earlier this year - are discarded by-products of an all digital production process. Taken out of context and stripped of their charactersitic materials, the projects are cast in homogeneity, questioning the way architecture is visually represented on many platforms from local competitions to entertainment industry.

The same data is used to produce the five images, by re-articulating and combining differnet elements in the digital image production process, from multi-dimensional coordinate data to color and pixel values. The following set of digital operations were performed on the data:

Relics (shadow / light), Relics (windosw/walls/floors), Relics (lexicographical order), Relics (point clouds), Relics (sorted maps).

Concept & Realisation: Günes Direk for nightnurse images

Esch Sintzel Architekten from Zürich, Switzerland could win the 2nd rank at the competition Malley-Renens in Lausanne. Our pleasure. 

Our images for EM2N and their masterplan ETH Campus Hönggerberg 2040, Zurich.

From the Hochparterre special-issue magazine "Visualizing Architecture": This is the tableau for Careal.

Our images for the competition entry "School in Stägebuck" in Dübendorf for BUR Architekten.

Our images for smarch and their compeition entry made it to the 1st rank. Very nice.

We congratulate ENF Ernst Nilkaus Fauscharchitekten on their won competition for the Schulhaus Brühl in Gebenstorf! We always love it when a project we enjoyed working on this much (underground fossils in the view!) is also chosen by a jury. Congratulations!

Visualizations for Christ & Gantenbein for their contribution to the project competition Biomedical Department of the University of Basel

Visualizations for Boltshauser architects for their competition contribution to the development of the "Zwicky Nord" ex-industrial site in Wallisellen near the city of Zurich.

Pictures done for BHSF architects and their residential development project on the site of the former waste incineration plant "Warmbächli" in Berne, Switzerland.

Image for Neff Neumann Architects and their competition entry for the "Am Glattbogen" residential development area in the north of Zurich.

Visualizations for Graber Pulver architects and their entry to the competition for a new main Building for FHNW university in Muttenz.

Part of the exhibition for the Architektur 0.13. A short animation showing the idea of a permanent laser installation to mark Zurichs highlights.

Abstract and model-based visualization for smarch, Mathys & Stücheli Architects and their archetypal and monumental church design of the New Apostolic Church in Zofingen, Switzerland.

Visualizations for the expansion of Zurich Airport by von Ballmoos Krucker architects

Facade view for Meletta Strebel Architects with some "Züri Staub & Patina".

Occasionally we receive requests for images in a more hand-drawn, abstract style. We conducted this study on architectural visualizations that have the look and feel of architect's sketches as an internal project. The results were used in several projects later on.