An article in "Archithese 1/15" by Anne Kästle and photos by Georg Aerni

"Jazz musicians per se have a certain affinity for the informal. Perhaps a certain aversion to rigidity, to a haven of rules, determines their path to this music, whose essence is defined by interaction and improvisation. Architecture, on the other hand, is a discipline that does not love the unforeseen, but tries to exclude it by every trick in the book. It is therefore diametrically opposed to jazz. With the task of building a house solely for this music, two disciplines come together that could not be more different. A subjective view of the work that has just been completed."

Marco Zünd is a deputy professor for building theory + design at the department of the TU Kaiserslautern and runs the architectural office "Buol Zünd" in Basel together with his office partner.(http://www.buolzuend.ch)

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