Conveyance Hall Airport Zurich

The forwarding hall is a single-storey hall for cargo handling on the grounds of Zurich Airport. Werner Sobek was responsible for the project’s object planning, structural engineering and facade planning. The hall is over 200 m long in an east-west direction and about 40 m deep. The building has a biaxially curved, dynamic form in which the boundary between roof and wall was deliberately “blurred”.

Flowing Elegance from a Single Cast

The arched roof with metal roofing encloses the hall with a flowing gesture and at the same time seamlessly forms the south facade. Thus the hall appears to the “public” side – Flughafenstraße – as a homogeneous, closed form in which wall and roof merge into one another without any change of material. The slight curvature in an east-west direction reflects the existing topography; the biaxially curved form presents the hall to pedestrians and passers-by as a scaled volume.