Upsidedown
Roland STUTZ (CH)
Martin BRUHIN (CH)
architects
Ruben DALUZ GONZALVO (ES)
architecture student
Europan 7 Fribourg
winner
Between the old and new part of the city lies a long narrow valley. An analysis reveals a fragmented landscape that includes the old city wall and access to the river. The proposition searchs to maintain the green zone, to improve the network of paths for pedestrians and connect city parts. In the future the surroundings of this corridor should densify. This landscape consists of two longitudinal zones, one for an intensive use and one will be conserved as a park. Down by the river appears a building that includes a river bath and in the upper part are sport utilities and service buildings integrated into the topografy. The housing project is also a part of this public ways. The roof, of the intervention „upsidetown", will be used publicly and is at the same time main access to the 46 apartments, library, childcare, bath, restaurant and bike parking.
Site informations
Fribourg
Synthetic site file EN
This project is connected to the following themes
Housing - Community
An introverted suspended housing cluster generates public spaces that relate to the landscape and privacy in the introverted private patios.
Shared spaces - Intensification by superposition
The project achieves a three-dimensional system of public space by raising the porous slab of the residential building above the landscape, enhancing the relations between the spaces below it, the voids of the slab and the walkable roof.
Nature - Topography / ground
The project proposes an architectural object on raised piers, backing onto the slope, scarcely grazing the ground in its quest to minimise its impact on the site.