Ruoss Silva (Zürich)

Our architectural firm works on a wide variety of construction tasks and utilization programs, from large-scale urban development projects to smaller conversions and additions, both public, community and private uses.

For some years now, our work has focused on residential construction in an urban context, often with commercial uses on the first floors: Densification, redensification, fitting into existing buildings, dealing with historical building fabric are the keywords for this. Our goal is to harmonize project economy, flexible spatial structures, energy efficiency, ecology and high design and functional qualities. We see ourselves as part of a team consisting of the client, users, planners and authorities, who together try to achieve the best for all parties involved and in this sense create building culture.

Through our participation in various commissions, juries and test planning, we are familiar with the processes from the initial idea to strategic planning and implementation, and we know and respect the views and concerns of all those involved in a project. We are convinced that good architecture and good urban planning are characterized, among other things, by their ability to resolve - supposed - conflicting goals and to create advantages and added value for all. As an architectural office, our motivation and our interest are therefore to develop projects that exhibit these qualities and provide future-oriented urban planning, architectural and constructive answers.

We seek to incorporate, consolidate and expand our accumulated experience in each new project. We work project-related in different, interdisciplinary teams, which are tailored to the respective building or planning task and, if necessary, supplemented with freelancers.

We offer a guarantee for a comprehensive job analysis, an intensive design phase and a careful execution and detail planning, which form the prerequisites for the quality and efficient implementation and realization of a project.

As an architectural office in a long-standing office community with other architects, structural draftsmen and site managers, we can also free up capacities at short notice.