Bureau Giacometti has been invited to a conference organised by the City of Bern on the topic of ‘Socially Responsible Renovation’ in September 2024. Bern’s housing strategy calls on the city administration to place greater emphasis on social aspects in renovation and replacement construction projects.
With a brief practical input on the topic of ‘Interface / Tenancy’, Bureau Giacometti, together with the owner Emil Merz AG, has contributed to the conference programme and organised an excursion to visit the project.
This contribution enabled the concepts and ideas of Bureau Giacometti to be presented to a wide audience and discussed in an interactive guided tour on site. The exchange between politics, practice and research opened up new perspectives and enables critical reflection on socially acceptable renovation approaches and their transferability to future urban development projects and strategies.
Excursion to the construction site
