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The Anna Göldi Museum is located in Ennenda and is housed in the historic attic of the former Hänggiturm. It is barely recognizable from the outside and only the large letters ANNA on the chimney indicate that the museum is situated on the Trümpi site. The museum does not only tells a forgotten story of witches and women from another time, but also recalls the global influence and power of the textile industry in Switzerland.

In the first phase of the research, I looked at the content of the exhibition in the Anna Göldi Museum and took a closer look at the textile industry around Ennenda. As my grandmother was one of the workers in the Uznach spinning mill, I chose a very personal and intuitive research method. In the book Untold Stories I collected tellings of different women and recorded them as a collage in my book. The collected material is very diverse and highlights specific aspects that the women experienced and that concerned me. The aim was not to find a single truth, but to use the medium of the artist book to make them visible side by side without judging them.

On the ground floor of the museum, an additional program is to be provided that the residents of Ennenda can use and appropriate the space. As an exhibition, the women in my book have been given a space as a reminder of them and what they have experienced. Each of these spaces has a domestic character and does not correspond to the authoritarian character of a typical museum. Everyone should find their own access to the museum and new stories should be able to develop side by side in this new place.

In addition, a new park is to be created, which will become a visible center in Ennenda where people can meet or simply go for a walk. A water basin and a pavilion are located in the spacious area and give the outdoor area its character. The structures are simply designed, showcase the traditional craftsmanship of the area and provide another space for the clubs in Ennenda to appropriate and benefit from.

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The building of the Grenzsanität, designed by Heidi and Peter Wenger, is located at the train station in Brig. It was built in 1957 for the purpose of sanitary examinations of migrant workers passing the Swiss-Italian border. These examinations consisted of screenings for infectious diseases such as Tuberculosis by means of blood collection and radiologic exams. They were mandatory for people immigrating into Switzerland in order to obtain a work and residence permit.

The Grenzsanität is the architectural representation of the restrictive immigration policies established in the post-war years. Terms such as Saisonnierstatut, Überfremdung, Schwarzenbach-Initiative, or Grenzsanitätsdienst did not only shape the discourse about migration in those years, but affected the lives of thousands of people and families. The Grenzsanität is a Denkmal by means of which their story can be told.

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A hybrid building for the Jewish community and the reformed church

High on top of the Bürgliterasse — a hill in the district of Enge in Zürich —stands the monumental reformed church Kirche Enge. It was built by Alfred Friedrich Bluntschli between 1892 and 1894. The distinct Neo-Renaissance style was directly inspired from Gottfried Semper himself, of whom Bluntschli was an important disciple. While the church was frequented by many inhabitants from the parish during the early twentieth century (the church provides seating for approx. 1200 people), the monumental church is currently severely underused. According to the sexton, a maximum of 100 people show up for the bi-monthly congregation.

Meanwhile, the Jewish community of Zürich, which is concentrated in Kreis 2 and 3, require a large amounts of space for worship and gathering. In this project, the specific constituency is Zürich's liberal Jewish community Or Chadasch ("New Light"). Through an interview with the president of Or Chadsch, the proposed project was briefed by some crucial requirements and contradictions. For the church in Enge to be converted into a synagogue, following aspects need to be considered:

The congregation must face Jerusalem, which lies on the diagonal axis of the crossing pointing towards South-East.Any depictions of Christian figures and symbols must be concealed. In general, ornamentation is undesired in a modern synagogue.The space should provide a much higher level of illuminance, as the synagogue will be used for multi-functional purposes (such as political talks, readings and festivities).These requirements should be solved with the stance of minimalist structural interventions, as the church stands under landmark status and does not allow significant constructive alter- ations. The mandatory S-E direction is addressed by creating a symmetrical space along the diagonal axes and making the church benches mobile. Any ornamentation will be covered by large-scale curtains (which can be contracted to ensure a hybrid use for both religions). The inner dome will be partially removed, which exposes the well-lit tholobate and allows for additional light to enter the church.

The shapes and concepts of the project have been informed by Semper's Stoffwechseltheorie, the emulation of existing elements of the church and formal concepts from the Kabbalah (a variety of Jewish mysticism).

This project is a continuing dialog that aims at rendering visible the already existing, yet overlooked practices on site while re-attributing value to their process. It func- tions as an ongoing program of modification within the hotel framework that will better profit from the existing socio-cultural resources. A series of action and interven- tion varying in time and scale will generate a never-en- ding dialogue between the hotel and its actors in order to sustain change by fostering a light but durable change in the long term.

While remaining non-disruptive, a series of small-scale actions will reveal the value of the existing practices. With simple mean such as improving access to, or re- locating existing programs, light programmatic change will spread throughout the hotel while empowering their actors. New processes will be creating along the way al- lowing for the emergences of new relationship between the landmark and the social life of Zürich.

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This project focuses on different care-related issues in the Triemlifussweg neighbourhood: environmental, pedagogical, material and architectural. It proposes various interventions, on a small or large scale, which are derived from observations or interviews with users and inhabitants. The interventions are often economical or light in terms of material and expenditure. They can be seen as easily implemented strategies, and therefore also easily adjustable to the needs of the users. These strategies need to be tested, modified, adapted to improve at best the daily life of the inhabitants, so that they can take care of themselves and their loved ones, their homes and their cities, their planet and its ecosystems.

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