Switzerland – Works of art – Kunst und Bau, Innenraum | FORUM UZH | Neubau

The Building Department of the Canton of Zurich is organising, on behalf of the University of Zurich (UZH), two design competitions in a selective procedure for the artistic design of the new FORUM UZH building. The present design brief concerns the interior. The client is the University of Zurich, which will also be the majority user of the building. UZH has commissioned the Building Department of the Canton of Zurich (HBA) with overall project management for SIA phases 2 to 5. The lead designer is Herzog & de Meuron Forum AG. The design competition for the FORUM UZH aims to find an artistic intervention in the interior that engages in a stimulating way with the architecture and the function of the new building, thereby integrating architecture and art into a coherent overall concept. The evaluation panel will assess the submitted projects in terms of their engagement with the brief, their resonance with the location, their artistic impact, and their relationship to architecture and the lived academic context. The artistic proposals should have a strong and independent visual language. Both static, permanent works and performative, time-based works are welcome—the latter, provided a coherent concept for their realisation and documentation is demonstrated. The long-term operational and maintenance costs will also be taken into account in the evaluation.