mavo Landschaften

mavo Landschaften positions itself between urban planning, landscape and architecture understanding these disciplines as the interacting motors in contemporary territories. Interdisciplinary thinking and methodology is considered as a basic requirement in order to encounter the complex problems and tasks of our times. Rather than being a tool to embellishment, landscape architecture is understood as an […]

The jury recognized how the designers dealt with stormwater. Once the densely planted trees grow, a ‘green cloud’ will emerge to balance the architecture. A generous planting plan and loosened formal expression will act as an important improvement to this dense housing. The jury also appreciated the cultivated messiness and that avoided an overdetermined formal language. Rather, the site is organized as field of sloping planes with subtle armatures that shape the spaces and circulation. Notable is the elegant water line runs througout the project, not as a delimeter of space, but a means to explore the site by following the water’s lead.

Born out of a test planning process, the Innerer Garden is not only a reinvention in terms of open space typology; innovative and new approaches were also required in terms of transformation processes and design methods. The work process always took place on both a large and small scale, it was at once urban and […]

dévoiler’ The different layers of the landscape at Attisholz Süd, Luterbach  ‘dévoiler’ – the competition’s code word – sums up the project proposal for the new riverside park along the river Aare: The aim of the design is to reveal the different levels of this landscape and to overlay history and future to create something […]

How to create ‘home’ in a newly constructed overspill town in the agglomeration of a big city? How to still plant vegetation volumes, even if no natural soil under the roots exists? How to integrate all technical requirements and infrastructures without losing spatial qualities? What does a contemporary urban garden in a densified city look […]

The historical school complex Ilgen was built in the 19th century in the district ‘Zurichberg’ – a neighbourhood affected by the usually generous gardens of the villas. An impressive artificial terrace was created so that two school buildings and one gymnastic hall could be placed on the slightly inclined surface. Due to several modifications with […]