Cantonal schools Rämibühl | Comprehensive renovation | Art and Building

The Building Department of the Canton of Zurich is organising a study commission through a selective procedure for an artistic intervention at the Rämibühl Cantonal Schools as part of their refurbishment. The institutions using the premises are the Realgymnasium Rämibühl (RG) and the Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliches Gymnasium Rämibühl (MNG). The client is the Canton of Zurich. Overall responsibility and project management lie with the Building Department of the Canton of Zurich (HBA). The general planning consultant is BS+EMI AG, Zurich. Landscape architecture is the responsibility of mavo Landschaften GmbH, Zurich.

The study commission for the Rämibühl Cantonal Schools aims to identify an artistic intervention in the interior and/or exterior spaces that engages in a stimulating dialogue with the architecture and the site's function as an open environment for teaching and learning, thereby bringing architecture and art together into a cohesive overall concept.

The jury will assess the submitted projects based on their relevance to the Rämibühl Cantonal Schools as a place of education and everyday life, their engagement with the brief and the specific qualities of the site, their artistic merit, and their interaction with the architecture and the function of the complex as a whole. An in-depth engagement with Eduard Neuenschwander's design as an integrated work encompassing landscape, architecture and art is expected, taking into account its heritage significance and its use as a school. The artistic proposals should demonstrate a distinctive and compelling visual language.