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works on spatial transformations. In practice with a focus on architecture, landscape and urban design. In discourse through exhibitions, publications and teaching formats. 8000.agency was founded in 2020 by Jakob Junghanss, Lukas Ryffel and Oliver Burch as part of the graduation project Siedlung Wydäckerring at ETH Zürich. They currently run a design studio at the ArchitekturWerkstatt St. Gallen. They are part of ZAS*.

8000.agency KlG / Bändlistrasse 29 CH-8064 Zürich / info@8000.agency

Kaleidoskop / Città Diffusa / Deviate / Towards Transformation / offen erschlossen / 33.3%-Studio / Drawing New Lines / Carambol(age) / Begin Again Fail Better / Auf Zeit / Taten Sachen und Fiktionen / Siedlung Wydäckerring

Transformation Brunnenstrasse / Lausanne Jardins 24 / Transformation Riedenhalden / Innenentwicklung Davos / WOBA 2030 / Siedlung Hirschwiese / Quartierplan Allschwil / Transformation Bahnhof Adliswil / Umnutzung Schärenmoos / Saint-Louis-Park / Siedlung Salzweg

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«Kaleidoskop», Traveling exhibition BSA Research Grant N°7, 2025-26. Photos: Timo Fust

↑ «città diffusa», Visiting Studio 8000.agency, ArchitekturWerkstatt St.Gallen, Fachhochschule OST, 2024/25. Photos: 8000.agency / Timo Fust

↑ «deviate», workshop, with Blanka Major and Boris Gusic, Swiss Summer School, Basel, 2024. Photos: Anne Lhopiteau

«towards transformation - the 33.3% attitude - zurich», ETH Studio De Vylder, Triest Verlag 2024

«offen erschlossen – Ansätze zum Weiterbauen», BSA Research Grant N°7, 2022-24, Werkverlag 2024

33.3% Design Studio, Chair De Vylder, D-ARCH ETH Zurich, 2021-2024

«Drawing New Lines», Exhibition contribution at Royal Academy, London, 2024. Lecture series «afterFORM» at Architecture Foundation, Barbican

↑ «CARAMBOL(AGE) ZÜRICH BERLIN», Contribution to Lila Strauss 08, with Urs Füssler, 2023

«Begin Again. Fail Better.» Contribution to exhibition and publication, Kunstmuseum Olten / Park Books, 2024

↑ «Auf Zeit - Wie lange Dauern die Werke», Opinion piece at Werk, Bauen+Wohnen 03-2023

«Taten, Sachen und Fiktionen», Exhibition contribution to «Urbane Räume: Vier Perspektiven» ZAZ Bellerive, Zurich, 2021/22

«Siedlung Wydäckerring: Agency in Transformation», Free Master Thesis ETH Zürich, supervised by Chair Tom Emerson / Chair Freek Persyn, 2020


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practice

↑ Transformation and Renovation Brunnenstrasse 12, Uster, 2023-ongoing

«Terrain d'herbes / Jardin de jeux», Landscape project for Lausanne Jardins 24, with Elmēs and Carbonifère, 2023-24

↑ «Madame Hulot», Selective Competition Wohnhaus Riedenhaldenstrasse, with squadra, Cooperative Wogeno Zurich, 2024

Inner Densification Strategy Davos (IES), Commune of Davos, 2023-2024

↑ «WOBA 2030», Collective Workshop Format, with Coralie Berchtold, Cooperative Eglisee, Basel, 2023-24.

↑ «Le Champs de Possibles», Open Competition Siedlung Hirschwiese, 2nd round, with Comte/Meuwly, Cooperative Hagenbrünneli, Zürich, 2022-23

↑ «Bernoulli 2.0», Neighborhood development plan, study, with ryffel + ryffel, DXMA, Allschwil, 2023

↑ «Fitzcarraldo», Competition project Train Station Adliswil, with ryffel + ryffel and PBM AG, SZU AG Zürich, 2022

↑ «dazzle», Selective Competition «Umnutzung Büro zu Wohnen Schärenmoosstrasse», with Architecten Jan De Vylder Inge Vinck and ryffel + ryffel, PWG Zürich, 2022

↑ «Texture du Sol», 2. place Landscape competition St. Louis Park, with ryffel + ryffel, 2021

↑ «Salzzz…weg», Open Competition «Ersatzneubau Siedlung Salzweg», with Tamino Kuny and Jens Knöpfel, City of Zurich, 2020


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