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FOCKETYN DEL RIO IS NOW

www.mideri.ch

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hansfocketyn.com

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Dear friends, clients, and collaborators.

We would like to inform you that FOCKETYN DEL RIO STUDIO will evolve into two new offices.

Miquel del Río MIDERI Architekten
T: +41 76.323.85.84
M: mideri@mideri.ch
A: Klybeckstrasse 141, K-24, 4057 Basel, Office 2.15
W: www.mideri.ch
IG: @mideri.architekten

Hans Focketyn
Hans Focketyn Architekten GmbH
Erlenstrasse 96, 4058 Basel
mail: Info@hansfocketyn.com
tel:078 724 53 02
web: hansfocketyn.com
instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hafo_architekten

Hans Focketyn will work through his new firm, Hans Focketyn Architekten, while Miquel del Rio will work via his new studio MIDERI. All of our ongoing work and projects will continue through FOCK-ETYN DEL RIO STUDIO until completion, and all existing contracts will not be impacted by this re-structuring in any shape or form. However, FDRS will not accept any new contracts from now on, while both new studios are open for business.

Our office started in 2013 when we won the competition to transform the Kaserne, now close to opening. We are very thankful for this decade of collaboration with an engaged team of clients, em-ployees, and collaborators, which were essential in realizing such a highly complex project. But not only that: we were honored to have been given the opportunity to build many other projects with var-ying scale, such as the Parterre One, and also to create new methods of collaborating, which we call the Guerrilla projects, that gave Basel important cultural destinations such as the Kaschemme.

Furthermore, together with all of you, we defined our own working methods in architecture, with a solid and professional network of collaborators operating in Basel, Colombia, or Barcelona. Togeth-er, we enlarged the classical frame of our architectural practice and gave back to the community of the metropolitan region of our home, Basel.

Since 2019, we have started expanding our scope by activating the educational sphere into the DNA of our office through the Professorship of Hans Focketyn in the BFH and multiple lectures of Miquel del Río in several universities across the globe.

The richness of projects, formats, and connections will not only remain but continue to grow through two new offices of FDRS partners.

Thank you for your trust, shared experiences, and expertise. We are looking forward to continuing our collaboration through our new offices.

Contact

Story

FOCKETYN DEL RIO Studio is an architecture office based in Basel, Switzerland, founded by Miquel del Río and Hans Focketyn in 2013 with flexibility in mind. Not interested in reproducing the status quo and providing standardized results, FOCKETYN DEL RIO Studio delivers precise and unique solutions with clear-cut gestures that embed projects in their urban context and activate communities, culture, and cities as a whole.
 
The firm is currently working on transforming the Kaserne Cultural Center, a large scale project of international scope. It is also building a listening room for aural experiences and is currently finalizing a school near Basel. Among the firm's completed work is Parterre One, a concert hall inaugurated in 2017. A series of smaller-scale commissions include art spaces, gastronomy, and public interventions. Amongst them is Quartiertreffpunkt, a community center in Basel's former harbor area.

The firm currently employs several architects in its Basel office, and works with an expanded network of collaborators and specialists based in Basel, Barcelona, Berlin, and Medellín. FOCKETYN DEL RIO Studio is the "universal translator" that talks to all active actors and puts all the pieces together in a coherent and wholesome ensemble. 

Team

Current Team

  • Miquel del Rio (Partner)
  • Hans Focketyn (Partner)
  • Yvonne Eggenberger (Administration)

Collaborating firms

Caretta Weidmann: general planning
DL+: renderings
Fahny Pesenti Architektin: architecture
Michel Duc architecte EPFL / sia: architecture
Neuland Architecturlandschaft: landscape architects
Rapp: general planning
Rent an Accountant: accounting
SBDA: renderings
sdl arquitectos: architecture
Schnetzer Puskas ingenieure: structural engineers
Uncertain Futures (Organization): communication
x-made: façade consultant

Past collaborators

Vida Amani (intern, Switzerland); Silvia Amat (intern, Spain); Marco Bamberger (young architect, Switzerland); Felipe Bermúdez Murillo (intern, Colombia); Anđela Brašanac (architect, Serbia); Jonathan Bürgel (intern, Germany); Iris Carratalá (young architect, Spain); Marion Cruz (intern, France); Marina Dold (intern, Switzerland); Hajdin Dragusha (young architect, Germany); Tomás Echeverri Montoya (intern, Colombia); Letizia Fürer (architect, Switzerland); Cristina Fernández (young architect, Spain); Juan Pablo Gallego (intern, Colombia); Dalila Ghodbane (intern, Colombia); Francesco Maria Di Giuseppe (intern, Italy); Tomás Guerra (intern, Colombia); Xenia Heid (intern, Switzerland); Walter Hein (young architect, Germany); Anna Katharina Kuhli (architect, Germany); Aljoscha Lanz (draughtsman, Switzerland); Marco Lenherr (intern, Switzerland); Alastair Lock (intern, Great Britain); Pierre Marmy (intern, Switzerland); Santiago Martínez (intern, Colombia); Sebastian Muñoz (intern, Colombia); Manuela Navarro (intern, Colombia); Jaime Peiró (young architect, Spain); Raphaël Rattier (young architect, France); Joshua Thompson (intern, Great Britain); Xavier Uriach Parellada (young architect, Spain); Christian Vetsch (architect, Switzerland)

Awards

Prizes

  • Foundation Award 2014

Competition Prizes

  • Bas-Vully (1st Prize, Second Position)
  • Europan 2013 Wien-Kagran (1st shared prize, Runner-Up)
  • Fisches Nord (Mention, Sixth Prize)
  • Kaserne Kopfbau (1st Price)
  • Fondation Belle Saison (2nd Prize)
  • Bauhaus Dessau Museum (1st phase selected: Finalist in Two Phases International Competition)
  • Collège du Courbet (3rd Prize)
  • Erweiterung Schulcampus Dorf Binningen (3rd Prize)

Public

Exhibitions

  • Architektur0.14, Zürich 10/2014
  • Pavia, Europan Forum, Projekt Wien Kagran 09/2014
  • Schweizerisches Architekturmuseum, FORUM BASEL 04/2014

Publications

  • Hochparterre Wettbewerbe 1 08/2014
  • WBW, pages 49-51 04/2014
  • Baublatt, pages 31-32 04/2014
  • Hochparterre Wettbewerbe 1, pages 38-41 02/2014
  • Viso Architecture, Nr. 5, pages 15-31 01/2014
  • TEC 21, pages 17-18 01/2014
  • Europan 12 / Spain Catalog, pages 128-129 01/2012
  • Europan 12 / The Adaptable City /1, page 321 01/2012

Lectures

Careers

If you would like to collaborate with Focketyn del Rio studio and you have not found a suitable position in our listed opportunities, we are still happy to receive your application including: complete CV (nationality, date of birth, studies, and languages you speak), excerpts from your portfolio (including projects that show your personal approach to architecture or your special skills), a motivation letter, and letters of recommendation. Please send by post

Open positions

  • No currently open positions