Kiln Tower for the Brickworks Museum / Boltshauser Architekten

The brickworks is the only intact surviving handmade brickworks in German-speaking Switzerland and is operated by the Brickworks Museum. The listed ensemble includes a timber brick-drying shed, a kiln that may no longer be operated, the biotope of the historical clay pit, a residential building with gardens, and a museum building that replaces a burned-down barn. In 2017 students of the guest professorship at TU Munich designed a new kiln tower on the site. The kiln tower uses a prestressed earth-and-timber structure based directly on a mock-up carried out at the Sitterwerk. The structure represents the world's first prestressed earth building.

"The brickworks, that is run today by the Brickworks Museum, is the only intact surviving handmade brickworks in German-speaking Switzerland."

"The listed ensemble consists of a timber brick-drying shed, a kiln, that may no longer be operated, the biotope of the historical clay pit, a residential building with gardens, and a museum building that replaces a burned-down barn."

"The prestressed earth-and-timber structure is based directly on the mock-up carried out at the Sitterwerk and is the world's first prestressed earth building."

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