T E S S A V O L L M E I E R



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 works as teaching assistent. 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
since 2024     Teaching assistent BFH
2021 - 2023    Teaching assistent ETH - Studio Corinna Menn
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 SIA
Stauffacherstrasse 163
8004 Zürich

info@tessavollmeier.ch
+41 79 640 99 05






Project List

2024 -
Competition - 1. Prize
Sonnenheim, housing, Zurich
with Corinna Menn GmbH and Studio MOFA


2024
Competition - 5. Prize
Plagnoula, Primary school and kindergarten, Zuoz
with Ewa Kaszuba


2024 -
Private project
Selva, house renovation, Lamone


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


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

2022
Competition
Schliengerweg, housing, Basel

with Hanna Olszowa and CEAM1 


2022
Competition
Kiosk Stadthausanlage, gastronomy, Zürich
with Hanna Olszowa


2021 - 2022
Study 
Cassina, sport facility, Agno
with Hämmerli Caccia Architetti


2020
Competition
Hochbergstrasse, housing trasformation, Basel
with Stefanie Girsberger & Lorenz Bachmann


2020
Competition
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


Extras

2023 Lecture

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


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