Location | Kriens LU |
Client | Gemeinde Kriens |
Commission | Study competition on invitation 2009 |
Planning | 2010–2015 |
Construction | 2016–2018 |
Architects | Graber & Steiger Architekten, Project Architect: Anthony Frank |
Consultants | Project Manager: Büro für Bauökonomie, Landscape architect: koepflipartner |
The idea of the Kriens community to use the «Schappe Süd» grounds as an arts and youth centre is controversial in terms of content, urban planning and architecture. Firstly, the community is making an important cultural statement in a prominent location, enhancing the town since its content forms a centre. Secondly, the historically valuable buildings receive a contemporary task and thereby raise awareness among future generations of an important piece of the Kriens developmental history. The design widely exploits the existing potential while aiming for a balanced synthesis between the existing structures and new aspects. The charm of today’s estate, with its industrial buildings as evidence of times past, is the starting point of the project. The courtyard design, the roof landscape and the surrounding wall are integrated into the transformation of the estate and developed further in a contemporary form. Old and new elements are condensed to form a spatially coherent, identity-enhancing ensemble, which has an autonomous expression that develops the power to become an important place of encounter.
As a part of “Adda Collective” we are selected to participate in the „Korail Residency 2024“, which is embedded in the “Korail City of Culture” initiative in Dhaka/Bangladsh.
The project „Korail City of Culture“, which focuses on Dhaka's largest informal settlement, is a sustainable urban development initiative supported by the Creative Economy Programme of the Federal Foreign Office in Germany, in collaboration with Goethe-Institut Bangladesh and its local counterpart, Paraa, and international partner, Floating e.V.. The project aims to support cultural practitioners and producers living, working, and playing in Korail in establishing sustainable cultural practices, and to feed this knowledge back into processes of global and local learning and teaching on sustainable urban development.
The projects and works that are developed during the Korail residency program shall be part of the „Maja-Kori“ Design Festival in and around Korail Basti in December 2024.
Adda Collective is a multidisciplinary and mutinational team formed around „Adda Space“ Dhaka/Bangladesh and Graber & Steiger Architects, Lucerne/Switzerland. For further information you may also check Instagram @grabersteiger @adda.dhaka.
Image: Goethe Institute Bangladesh