GeoViSense Workshop

Workshop Venue

The workshop takes place at the Department of Geography in room H38 (in building Y25) at the University of Zurich, Campus Irchel, Winterthurerstrasse 190, 8057 Zurich.

Room H38 is situated on floor H. You might reach it by following the red arrows, starting from the main entry on floor G:

How to Get Here

By Public Transport

Campus Irchel is accessible by public transport tram lines number 7, 9, 10 and 14. The tram stops ‘Milchbuck’ or ‘Universität Irchel’ are closest to the Irchel Campus of the University of Zurich.

There are direct tram connections to tram stop ‘Milchbuck’ or ‘Universität Irchel’  from:

  • The airport: tram number 10 (bound for ‘Bahnhofplatz / HB’), app. 20 minutes
  • Zurich City / HB (main railway station): tram number 10 (bound for ‘Zürich Flughafen’) or tram number 14 (bound for ‘Seebach’), app. 15 minutes
  • Zurich Oerlikon, railway station: tram number 10 (bound for ‘Bahnhofplatz / HB’) or tram number 14 (bound for ‘Triemli’), app. 15 minutes

Public transport Zurich: ZVV

Getting From the Tram Stop to the Campus

  • When getting off at the ‘Milchbuck’ stop the campus is reached after a 5-10 minutes walk up the hill through the beautiful ‘Irchel park’.
  • When getting off at the ‘Irchel’ stop the campus is reached after a 5 minutes walk only following the signs to the Irchel campus of the University of Zurich.

By Car

A large underground car park called ‘Irchel’ is directly accessible from the freeway A1L.

Accommodation

Please find a list of hotels with discount for participants at UZH events, as follow (see map below):

HOTEL ADDRESS WEBPAGE / TEL. PRICE (CHF)
1. Hotel Coronado Schaffhauserstrasse 137, 8057 Zurich http://www.hotel-coronado.ch / +41(0)44 360 26 26 155
2. Leonardo Hotel Rigihof Universitätstrasse 101, 8033 Zurich http://www.leonardo-hotels.com / +41(0)44 360 12 00 185
3. Sorell Hotel Rex Weinbergstrasse 92, 8006 Zurich https://sorellhotels.com/en/rex/zuerich / +41(0)44 360 25 25
4. Hotel Scheuble Mühlegasse 17, 8001 Zurich https://www.scheuble.ch / +41(0)44 268 48 00 158
5. Hotel St. Josef Hirschengraben 64/68, 8001 Zurich http://www.st-josef.ch / +41(0)44 250 57 57 172
6. Comfort Inn Hotel Leonhardstrasse 6, 8001 Zurich https://www.royalhotelzurich.ch / +41(0)44 266 59 59 160
7. Hotel Sunnehus Sonneggstrasse 17, 8006 Zurich http://www.hotelsunnehus.ch / +41(0)44 250 7 27 169
8. Hotel Krone Unterstrass Schaffhauserstrasse 1, 8006 Zurich http://www.hotel-krone.ch / +41(0)44 360 56 56 169
9. Hotel Platzhirsch Spitalgasse 3, 8003 Zurich http://www.hotelplatzhirsch.ch / +41(0)44 250 70 80 207
10. Hotel Seidenhof Sihlstrasse 9, 8001 Zurich http://www.seidenhof.ch / +41(0)44 228 75 00 220
11. Hotel Plattenhof Plattentrasse 26, 8032 Zurich http://www.plattenhof.ch / +41(0)44 251 19 10 215
12. Gästehaus Villa Hatt Freudenbergstrasse 112, 8044 Zurich http://www.vs.ethz.ch / +41(0)44 633 49 49 160