Laboratory Provisional Building FGCZ, Zurich

The new building comprises a reduced-area basement and two above-ground full floors. The two upper floors adopt an open-plan office concept to ensure the client’s requirements for flexible use. The two above-ground floors are constructed using timber-concrete composite construction. The prefabricated concrete columns in the building interior, the cast-in-place concrete walls in the circulation areas, and the timber element facades along the longitudinal sides of the building perform the function of vertical load transfer. The horizontal bracing of the building is ensured in the transverse direction by cast-in-place concrete wall panels and in the longitudinal direction by the frame action between the interior columns and the cast-in-place concrete beams. The timber-concrete composite slabs form the bracing panels between the vertical elements.