Tessa Vollmeier



About

Tessa Vollmeier is a Swiss Italian architect based in Zurich.
After graduating in architecture at ETH Zurich in 2016 with an exchange semester at the University of Hong Kong HKU, she worked for several months at the office Dürig AG in Zurich, where she undertook her internship in 2014, before starting a long collaboration with the reknown office Herzog & de Meuron in Basel in 2017. Since 2021 she is teaching assistent for the visiting professor Corinna Menn at the ETH Zurich. Next to the academic field she started her own practice as an independent architect in 2022.

Her background gave her the chance to acquire experience in a variety of programmatic fields, project phases and project scales. A life baggage which she continues to feed through challenging tasks, new inspiring collaborations and the dynamic field of teaching.



since 2022     Independent practice
2021 - 2023   Teaching assistent at Studio Corinna Menn ETHZ
2017 - 2022    Architect at Herzog & de Meuron in Basel
2014 - 2017     Intership and Architect at Dürig AG in Zürich
2010 - 2016    Architecture degree ETH Zurich and HKU Hong Kong


Contact

Tessa Vollmeier
Architect MSc ETH
Stauffacherstrasse 163
8004 Zürich

info@tessavollmeier.ch
+41 79 640 99 05






News

2023 Lecture

Lecture series “junge schweizer Architekt:innen”
with Cosimo Caccia
Fachhochschule Kaiserlautern



Project List

2023 Competition
Piazzale ex Scuole, infrastructure, Lugano
with Hanna Olszowa


2023 Invited Competition
Waldau, housing development, Flawil - 1. Prize
with Corinna Menn GmbH and mavo Landschaften

2022 Competition
Schliengerweg, housing, Basel

with Hanna Olszowa and CEAM1 


2022 Competition
Bürklikiosk, gastronomy, Zürich
with Hanna Olszowa


2021 Study ongoing
Un tetto per Cassina, sport facility, Agno
with Hämmerli Caccia Architetti


2020 Competition
Feel Free, transformation in housing, Basel
with Stefanie Girsberger & Lorenz Bachmann


2020 Competition
Toit-terrasse, primary school and kindergarten, Vernate
with Hämmerli Caccia Architetti


2020 Study
Masterplan Paketposthalle, mixed-use, München
Herzog & de Meuron


2019 Study
Study for a Railway Station, infrastructure, Switzerland
Herzog & de Meuron


2019 Concept - Development Phase
Interior Design of a Pub, Basel
Herzog & de Meuron


2018 Concept - Development Phase
Badenerstrasse, housing, Zürich
Herzog & de Meuron


2017 Construction Phase
Meret Oppenheim Hochhaus, housing, Basel
Herzog & de Meuron


2015 Concept Phase
Studentenwohnheim Chavanne, housing, Lausanne
Dürig AG


2014 Competition
1st Prize
Erweiterung Passagierfläche, Zürich Flughafen
Dürig AG


2014 Competition
Port of Kinmen, Taiwan
Dürig AG


2014 Competition
Barmelweid Spitalklinik, Aarau
Dürig AG


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