Upon its construction in 1910, the Reformierte Kirche Oberstrass was inaugurated by Pfleghard & Haefeli as a monument of “prominence and enduring presence, no matter where one looks at the city.” Their words and the image currently protected by ISOS correspond perfectly; in their drawings, they projected the Ortsbild.
In the process of searching for an entry point to the monument, the model became a working medium, a hybrid between the archive of Pfleghard & Haefeli and testing grounds for new interventions. Punctually, within and around the building, interventions serve to open the church to its context of schoolyard and the program of the neighbouring school, while applying the logic of the preservation of an image. Yet a shift in point of view reveals new images of the monument, unfreezing it in time.
