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Hochparterre

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Handbook from the Working Group on Soco-ecological Building Transformation High-quality housing densification means overcoming major social and environmental challenges. How can this be achieved? We are compiling a handbook on this topic, which will be published by Edition Hochparterre in early summer 2026. It brings together specific areas of action: Why does staged development help with socio-ecological densification? How can an inhabited construction site be organised? How can tenants be supported throughout the process? What questions arise when it comes to the fair distribution of living space? How are rents calculated and how can these models be further developed? In addition, there are essays focusing on urban planning, the role of land prices, historical classifications of political initiatives, and discussions about property. This makes the handbook interdisciplinary and accessible to those interested in architecture, urban planning, socioculture, cooperatives, real estate, politics, city administrations, and property owners. This book is the result of a working group of around 50 experts who have been meeting regularly since 2023 to identify and refine areas for action based on concrete examples from practice. To ensure that these concerns are heard, we are also relying on broad funding, which can be supported by this crowdfunding campaign, among other things. Contributors: Antonia Steger (Urban Equipe), Luisa Gehriger (Postdoc ETH Wohnforum), Rebecca Geyer (büro vor ort), Andreas Haug (baubüro in situ), Salome Rohner (ETH Wohnforum + Bureau Giacometti), Sabina Ruff (Laboratorium für Zukunftsgestaltung), Yarin Shmerling (Bureau Giacometti + büro vor ort), Lian Stähelin (ZAS* + squadra), Aline Suter (Caritas Zurich), Sabeth Tödtli (Urban Equipe), Sabine Wolf (Thiesen & Wolf) Back

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AKSB

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Working group on socio-ecological building transformation Since 2023, the Working Group on Socio-Ecological Building Transformation has been regularly bringing together expertise of over 50 theorists and practitioners to discuss and negotiate specific challenges in the housing crisis facing Swiss cities. The aim is to generate insights for a socio-ecological transformation of Switzerland’s housing stock and the results will be published in a book in 2026 with edition hochparterre. Previous working groups have focused on the following topics: Income-based rent model Residental renovation with residents in situ Occupancy regulations Vol. 1 Tenants’ protest against mass evictions: the example of Heuried Cost-based rent vs. market rentTenants’ offices Occupancy regulations Vol. 2 and architectural tricks (in planning) Building moratorium We are organising the working group together with the Urban Equipe association from Zurich. It is sponsored by the PONTE Foundation and the Fondation Sotto Voce. The book will be published in collaboration with the Hochparterre publishing house. Zurück

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Participation month

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Participation month for communal areas on Giacomettistrasse In March 2023, a participation month took take place at Giacomettistrasse 2 and 4 – a joint process to shape the future use of the communal areas and actively involve residents in the planning. Over a period of four weeks, tenants could participate in a variety of ways: at a house aperitif to kick things off, via a guidance system in the stairwell, at weekly lunch meetings, and in two surveys that provided space for anonymous feedback. The month concluded with a neighbourhood event that also involved the Freudenberg neighbourhood. The aim of the participation month was to encourage residents to share their ideas and needs and to promote a sense of co-determination and responsibility for the communal areas. Numerous suggestions were collected for the roof terrace, garden, forecourt and neighbourhood room – from more green spaces, seating and shaded areas to meeting places and shared use areas. The results have been passed on to the owner and the architectural firm in the form of a documentation brochure and will be incorporated into the further planning of the renovation, forming the basis for a lively, communally designed neighbourhood. The participation month has been organised in collaboration with Team Stadtteil 4 of the Bern Community Work Association. Zurück

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Architektur und Aktivismus

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Bureau Giacometti at “Architektur & Aktivismus” 2022 Contribution to the poster exhibition of the Bern University of Applied Sciences at the Kornhausform Bern Bureau Giacometti participated in the Bern University of Applied Sciences’ open call on the topic of ‘architecture and activism’. The call for entries is part of the architecture symposium of the same name at the Kornhausforum Bern, which deals with the social engagement of architects and planners. For the exhibition, we are designed a poster that shows our working methods in the project at Giacomettistrasse 2 and 4 in Bern. It documents how we act as a mediating and activating force between the owner and the residents in order to incorporate social aspects into the architectural planning process. The poster illustrates the exchange with the tenants, the translation of their concerns into the planning and the joint development of usage scenarios for the building and communal areas. It is intended as an example of activist practice within architecture that enables participation and strengthens neighbourhoods. Zurück

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