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Team Point of View

How to offer back to Kriens its industrial enclave, founder of the city’s modern era?
By defining the conditions of an urban reconquest process, transforming the existing exploded private industrial island into a lively district.
The aim is to introduce programmatic diversity as a regeneration power by structuring it around public spaces, which were not present in the industrial area.
Using soil, and its archaeological history, is an anchor.
The place must be rightly subject to this concept, explaining why the project is using old routes for the creation of plot divisions within the actual Andritz.
A particular identity frame appears. It foreshadows new contours for land register where new landowners and productive activities will take place.
The development of the templates remains open but regulated.
We think this projects integration system sustainable.

Jury Point of View

By means of indicated program assignment and architecture, the design allows multiple possibilities. The layout of squares and volumes and their development remain open. The concept proposes a first settlement to set the frame for future development of the empty and built spaces. The maps of the 32 analysis areas include the human being and they show relevant approaches in relation to identity and community building aspects of cohabitation. The design moves between abstraction and vision. The theoretical analysis shows a search for development principles.