At first sight, the town of Uster seems like a big village. As the third-largest municipality in the canton of Zurich, Uster is given the status of a city although it is a description that is not expressed in its own city body. In the center of the city a barely defined street square near the railway station offers the chance to develop a piece of the town.
While the edges of the city blocks remain fixed by the existing historical construction, the new development structure in the internal area concentrates volumes of different mass and heights into one orthogonally independent geometry. Two skyscrapers have an important...