Winning competition entry designed by 51N4, ECITEC, RWB and In Situ.
The agglomeration of Fribourg (CH) is located on the central Swiss Plateau, only a 30-minute train ride from one of Switzerland’s main metropolitan areas, around Lausanne and Geneva. The Fribourg agglomeration in its independence accumulated different development potentials over the years such as the relocation of the cantonal hospital, a new railway station and the university. Yet, because of its location, it not only needs to take its own future into account, but also to incorporate possible dynamics from its metropolitan neighbours such as population growth and economic pressures.
A spatial layout was developed to imagine the different steps, starting with the hospital and integrating new developments on strategic and intelligent locations, challenging the rather infrastructural perspective of the initial brief. Based on this critical investigation, a strategic development framework was set up to deal with a multiple future in which housing new residents seen as part of a productive landscape that is combined with an ecological continuity.
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Fribourg, Switzerland
Client
Etat de Fribourg
Completion
2020
In collaboration with
Citec, In Situ, RWB
51N4E project team
Harold Vermeiren, Chloé Nachtergael, Freek Persyn, Matteo Novarino, Gianmarco Causi, Aurèle Rattez, Petar Petricevic
51N4E involvement
Framework for strategic development
Programme
Hospital, housing, production, infrastructure, landscape, energy, mobility
Site surface
250.000m²
Image credits
51N4E
