Ideas study for Basel East Urban Space, Basel
Switzerland
The Ideas Study for Basel East (Ideenstudie Stadtraum Basel Ost) offers an overarching development vision for transforming the 180 ha area into a future-oriented, sustainable, social, and innovative neighbourhood, starting from the landscape.
Client
City of Basel
Geography
Status
Year
2023
Area Size
180 ha
Partners
Astoc, Drees & Sommer
The Ideas Study for Basel East (Ideenstudie Stadtraum Basel Ost) offers an overarching development vision for transforming the 180 ha area into a future-oriented, sustainable, social, and innovative neighbourhood, starting from the landscape.
Client
City of Basel
Geography
Status
Year
2023
Area Size
180 ha
Partners
Astoc, Drees & Sommer
Basel Ost, situated in the eastern part of Basel, Switzerland, serves as a buffer zone among several districts and neighbouring regions. Between the Rhine, Badischer Bahnhof and Riehen, it is one of Basel’s last major development areas. The area around the historic Allmende and the Hirzbaden neighbourhood currently has a highly fragmented typological character and is degenerating into a storage area for urban infrastructure.
Characterized by railway lines and diverse settlements such as Landauer, Rheinacker, and Bäumlihof, the area’s development aims to blend urban and landscape features into a distinct “urban landscape,” accommodating over 1000 residential units and diverse uses.
The project’s core objective is to create an integrated zone that not onlyacts as a suburb but also connects surrounding areas, emphasising collective, inclusive, and intensive open space utilization.
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