Oversize

Michael TRINKNER (DE)
Dirk WALDMANN (DE)
architects

Europan 7 Lausanne – Renens - Prilly

runner-up

Oversize opens possibilities · suburb·industrial history · theater · gazometer · services · infrastructures · recycling station · heterogeneous program · good accessibility·flatness · noisy surrounding · big buildings · squatted Ikeas · landscape loop · public network · public programs · no false romanticism · variety of units · freedom · intro/extroverted · 4,50 m ground floor · cross-programming · open for colonization · garage technology enterprises · coexistence · waiting for gentrification · malley renens · popular neighborhood · phasing · incorporation of keystones · identity·former abattoirs · train station · sky bar · park&ride · kiss&bye · landmark · Geneva Lake.

Site informations

Lausanne – Renens - Prilly

Synthetic site file EN

This project is connected to the following themes

Housing - Ways of life

The particular conditions associated with the conversion of an industrial structure is treated as a strong element of identity with a “squatting” lifestyle, characterised by the poetics of appropriation, temporariness and coexistence.

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