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Kurzzusammenfassung

Das Projekt „Stadtbiwak“ nutzt ungenutzte Restflächen im Quartier für temporäre, minimalistische Wohnmodule. Bewohner*innen können dort bewusst reduziertes Wohnen ausprobieren und neue Perspektiven auf Raumbedarf entwickeln. So werden Flächen effizient genutzt, Ressourcen geschont und neue Ansätze für suffizientes, urbanes Leben erprobt.

City bivouac

Avatar: Philippe Grossenbacher Philippe Grossenbacher

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What should be created?
The Stadtbiwak project is a radical architectural wake-up call and a real-world laboratory for urban sufficiency that focuses on the question of the proportionality of our space requirements. In view of the housing shortage and scarcity of resources, the concept specifically activates the city's untapped micro-potentials by opening up hidden niches, narrow fire walls, orphaned flat roofs and residual areas in parking lots as temporary living spaces. In these experimental case study houses, residents of the neighbourhood are given the opportunity to carry out a radical change of perspective through temporary living and to physically experience the quality of maximum reduction. Inspired by the functional precision of Charlotte Perriand's shelters, the intimacy of Le Corbusier's cabanon and the modular visions of Jean Prouvé or Buckminster Fuller, minimalist shelters are created here that distill living to its purest essence. It is the search for a zeitgeisty, urban "Walden" in the middle of the pilot quarter that translates the philosophical depth of Henry David Thoreau into the present day. Through the use of lightweight, reversible modules, the city bivouac demonstrates in an exemplary way how small-scale interventions can densify the city without sealing it off. In this way, the deliberate renunciation of square meters becomes tangible not as a lack, but as a gain in freedom and urban participation, and provides a courageous answer to the urgent question of how much space people are actually allowed to take up in a resilient society. (Photo: Sabina Bobst)
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Reference which no longer exists: Studio in a container house at the railway viaduct in Wipkingen by Gareth Knott
Are you an individual or part of a group?
We are a company (e.g. start-up, SME)
Name
Bach Mühle Fuchs / Countdown 2030
Are you implementing the idea alone or are you still looking for comrades-in-arms?
I/we are still looking for comrades-in-arms
Describe the place(s)
Im Binzquartier
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