In the coming years, the city of Biel is planning a large-scale development in the central area of the main railway station and the surrounding districts with a direct connection to the lake and the city center. An interdisciplinary team (Lorenz Eugster Landscape Architecture, Schneiter Traffic Planning, Pool Architects, Zeugin-Gölker Real Estate Strategies, USI – Roesler/Stieger) developed a utilization concept based on various strategies, which anticipates the divergent interests (real estate income, traffic junction, trade, use of open space, culture and identity, living and working) in a sustainable and long-term manner. With regard to the effects of climate change, area-specific thermal indoor and outdoor typologies were defined and adaptive instructions for action were developed for outdoor space, architecture (envelopes) and use. Different time horizons of interventions (efficiency) and structures and uses (sufficiency) were countered with mitigation, adaptation and coping strategies (active, passive, static, temporary) and included technical, natural, spatial, material, functional or architectural proposals.
Organizing body:
City of Biel
Process supervision:
ecoptima AG
Project Team Members:
Lorenz Eugster Landschaftsarchitektur und Städtebau (lead)
Pool Architekten
USI Mendrisio
Schneiter Verkehrsplaner
Zeugin-Goelker Immobilienstrategien