Students: Dilara Orujzade and Milo Strub

Looking at the area between the Hochrheintal and the narrow valley of the Ergolz east of Basel with the idyllic plateau around Arisdorf in its center this group traced the history of this characteristic and very productive landscape which is testified by relicts of the roman villa’s, the cultural heritage of the fruit cultivation and remnants of the silk industry. Today especially in the Ergolztal this formerly fruitful land is diminished to a few patches, landscape relicts, tapped between ever growing housing areas along the valleys’ predominant train and street infrastructure and the forested slopes of the Tafeljura. The Project reads the linear valley as a series of distinctive chambers shaped by a strong topography. It proposes a public path which would frame the contained settlements,  enhancing the rhythm of the existing topography and activating the former landscape relicts which would be programmed and cultivated. Each planted with a specific species, the paths would become the backbones of the chambers, programmed public edges.

reading the linear valley as a series of distinctive chambers

landscape chamber of Frenkendorf