"Future Housing for Everyone in Egghölzliquartier in Berne"

 

This master thesis deals with the topic of «Living at the Green Strip» in the Egghölzli quarter in Berne. The focus is on «Everyman’s House», flats that are intended to remain in the affordable sector but have great added value for the residents. 

 

The existing buildings offer numerous flats for people with medium to low incomes, which should be maintained. The aim of this work is to develop a guideline for future sustainable architecture. Through the analysis of the existing situation in this quarter, the question arose of how to build sustainably by applying the three pillars of sustainability. The intersections of the pillars were then implemented in the project «Everybody’s House». As a method, a diagram is created with sustainability in the centre related to «quality & cost», «construction & building materials» and «nature & interaction». 

 

The idea was to leave the current buildings as they are until their structural end and then replace them piece by piece by the new buildings. As a result of the work, it has been shown that livability does not have to be reduced despite cost-effective measures and that it is entirely possible to build cost-effectively and ecologically by the prefabrication of wooden element constructions. The connection to nature is stimulated by private and public gardens, which strengthens the social community.