RHINE PARK HOUSING DEVELOPMENT IN BIRSFELDEN BACK
2000 Competition: 1st Prize
2003 - 2004 Design Development and Realization

With a wide, spreading movement, the broken building body searches for its position in the park. It mediates between the found fragment of the block edge on the one side and the multi-storied buildings on the other; it calms the surrounding heterogeneous housing development scene and swings itself away from the street line into the broad landscape. Situated right on the bank of the Rhine, the park and living in the park become the central theme. All spaces open towards both sides of the park, no external wall hinders...

Photo © Lili Kehl
Architecture © Morger & Degelo, Basel