Students:  Mélissa Vrolixs and Michael Furrer

The territory south of the Lake Lucern displays a sharp contrast between the beauty and importance of landscape monuments like the omnipresent Pilatus, the Bürgenstock and the Stanserhorn and the very land consuming mediocrity of the growing Settlements. The low taxes of the canton Nidwalden and Stans’ excellent connection to Lucerne are fueling an seemingly uncontrolled growth that has shifted functions of the small historic city center to places like the Länderpark, a car friendly indoor shopping mall. The project started from observing the lack of public space and meaningful connection to its surrounding landscape resources within this “blown-up village”, then proposing the outer edge and now privatized inner left-over spaces as zones for intervention that could be an alternative to the official plans for the further extension of the generic housing structures. 4 types of interventions, the Allmend, the common, the Agrarian Relict and the mixed-use center together with the walk along an anti-wall explore possible reactions to a typically swiss condition.

Stans in Nidwalden

leftover spaces and local housing typologies

 the Agrarian Relict