​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. In 2017 students of the guest professorship at the TU Munich worked on the task of designing a new kiln tower on the site. 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. Â
© Kuster Frey
- architects: Boltshauser Architekten
- Location: Ziegelhütte, 6332 Cham, Switzerland
- Project Year: 2021
- Photographs: Kuster Frey
- Area: 60.0 m2
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