"Contextual authorship", Prof. A. Lehnerer, ETHZ, HS 2016, Progetto di R. Cavelti & T. Cerny
IV Project
The development of the Ziegelhof area into a mixed district where people live, work, shop and party, this development is a further step from the pioneer phase to the consolidation phase. Interim users become long-term tenants, pop-up restaurants establish themselves as hip meeting places in the city, informal shortcuts through the area become urban alleys. This semester we focus on the question of where and how people could live in the area. Conversion of existing spaces, additions to existing buildings, supplementary new buildings as well as buildings that replace the existing ones are all conceivable. In this respect, we want to leave ourselves more freedom than the planners of InSitu and Denkstadt, who have set themselves the goal of not demolishing any existing buildings.
The urban dimension of the brief
In terms of urban development, the aim is to increase the permeability of the area in the transverse direction, i.e. from the valley up to the old town. The quality of an urban address depends decisively on the frequency of pedestrians passing through it. In Liestal, increasing the attractiveness for pedestrians is particularly important, because the city is still heavily influenced by car traffic - and its public places suffer from this one-sided orientation towards traffic. The need for this cross-connection forces us to demolish buildings or parts of them (this suits us because it prevents the projects from drifting into the museum-like).
Purpose: living in various forms
We are adding what is still missing in the area today: housing. It is crucial that the flats benefit as much as possible from the potential of the site. This starts with the entrances to the houses: Where are the entrances particularly inviting? Could the entrances be extended to include additional uses such as coworking spaces, laundry rooms, bicycle garages, studios?
We do not give much guidance on the number and size of flats. As a guideline, the following rather tight values should apply: 35m2 area per resident (including staircases). Studios max. 40m2 (1 room), 2-room flats 60m2, 3 rooms approx. 80m2, 4 rooms 90-100m2. Cluster flats for shared flats approx. 30m2/resident. The aim is to provide a diverse, broad range of accommodation for a heterogeneous, colourful neighbourhood. In order to be aware of the social dimensions of our planning, it is important to us that a current balance of the number of residents is always mentioned.
Possible complementary uses: coworking, studios, community space, bicycle workshop, library, crèche etc. However, this semester is not primarily about the design of an elaborate social 'living organism', but about the examination of the existing building and its densification!
Approx. 8 parking spaces for deliveries, visitors and disabled persons, approx. 3 bicycle parking spaces per flat. No parking garage necessary.
Procedure
Getting to know each other: Based on the plan analysis and the work on the model, you can familiarise yourselves with the premises for the first time. Which vacant buildings are suitable for living in? Which empty spaces in the area are suitable for densification? After the study tour, you will know the niches, atmospheres, smells, light incidence and 'micro-milieus' of the area.
Passare a Vaglio: You investigate these milieus further in the context of 'deep drilling' and present your discoveries to the studio. You now know sections of the area from close up, now we zoom out again.
Urban development positioning: In the next step, you quickly develop an urban development setting that allows for a strong densification - we do not make any binding quantitative specifications. Check the plausibility of your setting in the model. So that we don't lose sight of the site from close up, we would also like you to make a statement about the location in the site that you would like to develop in more detail. This phase lasts until the 1st intermediate critique.
Typological processing: Now work on the section you have chosen, synchronously to a scale of 1/200 as well as in large-format cut-out models, which allow statements to be made about the atmosphere and construction. These statements are exposed to discussion in the 2nd intermediate critique and adjusted if necessary. The statements that are made about the sections that have been worked on in depth should be extrapolated/generalised from the scale of the specific spatial constellation to the scale of the object/building complex.
Groups
- work in group of two
Critiques