Urban composition
Author(s)
KUBOTA & BACHMANN architects
Toshihiro Kubota (JP), Yves Bachmann (CH)
Client(s)
City of Dietikon
Competition team
Yves Bachmann (CH)
architect
Toshihiro Kubota (JP)
designer / architect
Remy Turquin (FR)
landscape architect
Øyvind Vessia (NO)
building engineer
Europan 10 Dietikon
winner
2010-2011
The brief was to establish a master plan as a basis for the preparation of district plans for the residential and mixed use zone in the project area, and to consider the urban park and activity zone in the study area, or to give guidelines.
The main idea developed in the competition was to give Niderfeld – a largely brown field site of 36.5 hectares – an identity.
This idea was enacted through a workshop with the municipal representatives and a public presentation in order to communicate and explain our ideas and obtain people’s views.
In the project phasing study the emphasis was placed on the public squares: As landmarks of urban development, public squares became the project priority.








This project is connected to the following themes
Mobility - Social Fields
The tram junction and the public space around it form an entrance gate into the new development, where multi-storey garages reinforce the topic of a car-free area.
Shared spaces - Programmatic patchwork
The layout plan proposed by the project entails scattering the built structures and urban functions within an inhabited park.
Nature - Hybridity / Juxtaposition
Rather than unifying the neighbourhood around a single landscape, the project proposes an accumulation of a series of spaces all differing in size and context, which together form the identity of the neighbourhood.