Plateaux de Berne

Ostermundigen, Switzerland
Photo © Ruedi Walti
Photo © Ruedi Walti
Photo © Ruedi Walti
Photo © Ruedi Walti
Photo © Ruedi Walti
Photo © Ruedi Walti
Architects
Marques Architekten AG
Location
Ostermundigen, Switzerland
Year
2021
Time
2014 - 2021
Architecture
Daniele Marques & Riner Schlumpf
Project Manager
Stefan Heiniger
Collaboration
Tim Eggermann, Julian Roduit, Cornelia Steiner

On the building plot on Hohlenweg in Ostermundigen, an exclusive terraced villa structure was eveloped on the slope of the Steingrüebli. The building site extends over the foothills of the Grossholz hills, on the edge of the developed plain of Ostermundigen. This is the site of the disused quarry where Berne sandstone has been quarried since the 15th century and used for numerous buildings in Berne's old town. This sandstone is also used in the plaster layer of the new buildings. In this way, the site has regained what was taken from it in a different form.

The project Plateaux de Berne forms topographically inspired architecture that reflects the particularities of the site. In its specific architectural language, the building perceptibly defines the outskirts of Ostermundigen, at the transition from the plain to the hilly elevation. The materialisation in light, rough, sandstone-coloured plaster lends the complex a tectonic effect and thus complements the quarrying of the building material in the former stone pit. The terraced arrangement of the residential units creates high-quality living with strong outdoor qualities, relationships to the view and integrated the local recreational space on the slope. Thus on the one hand, the group of villas is nestled into the undulating terrain, while on the other hand, it enters into a spatial dialogue with the adjoining forest to the northeast.

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