Students:  Noël Fäh and Selina Mase

The Gempenplateau is one of the high plateaus oft the Tafeljura, between the two valleys of the Birs and the Ergolz. Steep forest slopes and cliffs (Fluh) mark the edges towards the valleys.The project reflects on the mostly privatized and inaccessible limit between the high plateau and the densely built fabric of the two valleys. Taking the site of the Goetheanum in Dornach and the famous English landscape park of the Ermitage in Arlesheim as references for entry points to the Gempenplateau that explore an intersection of  landscape and built up territories the work proposes a typology of new public entry-points and landscape elements that connect the Gempen to its surrounding communities.Redrawing the limits of current single-family housing carpets these entry-points are instruments to correct planning decisions that contradict the DNA of the Gempen-plateaux.

overview showing the new entry-points

collage showing the entrance to the Gempen-Park from Liestal