Cantonal Hospital St.Gallen KSSG - Pavilion

First new building of the KSSG-OKS generation project. 2009-2017

PROCEDURE, CLIENT, CONTRACTOR, TEAM
See overall project KSSG-OKS

KEY DATA
Floor area: 813 m2
Building volume: 4,082 m3
Planning: from 2011
Realization: 2016-2017
Construction costs SKP 1-9: approx. CHF 8 million

DESCRIPTION
Uses:
Ground floor: restaurant seating area, 148 seats
Basement: transformer station, ventilation center
Notes:
Shell construction in in-situ concrete
In-situ concrete chimneys as supporting structure of the pavilion roof
Pavilion roof in steel construction
Art on the building: Claudio Moser, Geneva

PHOTOS
Georg Aerni

SKIZZEN
Fawad Kazi

PUBLICATIONS
KSSG-OKSI - Project introduction and pavilion, ed. Marko Sauer and Christoph Wieser, Verlag park books, 2018
KSSG-OKSII - House 10, ed. Marko Sauer and Christoph Wieser, Verlag park books, 2021

"When I look at a building, something bothers me - or nothing bothers me. If nothing bothers me, then the construction is self-evident."
- James Licini

Fawad Kazi, James Licini, Marko Sauer, The Zen of Steel (excerpt), KSSG-OKS II - House 10, ed. Marko Sauer and Christoph Wieser, Verlag park books, 2021

Fawad Kazi Architekt GmbH
Langstrasse 14
8004 Zurich
Switzerland