Brisgi Baden Housing Park

In 2016, architects Meier Leder from Baden and Müller Sigrist from Zurich, together with DGJ Paysages, won the competition for the Brisgi cooperative housing development in Baden. DGJ was partner in the planning consortium as a landscape architect until the planning application was submitted in June 2024 and remains the project author. The site for around 220 new flats is located on the River Limmat, 20 kilometres downstream from Zurich.

The competition jury, chaired by the Mayor of Baden, wrote: ‘’The project is based on convincing design principles. The buildings divide the slope from Brisgistrasse to the level of the river area in three stages. This creates a spatial link from the Kappeler neighbourhood to the river level. This creates meeting zones and recreational areas between the buildings, offering space for communal living. All flats are well exposed to the sun and are orientated on several sides. A diverse range of flats with differentiated qualities will be created, allowing different lifestyles to be lived in the immediate neighbourhood. The project brings urban, social and technical aspects into a coherent context. It makes a convincing statement about communal living, which has been convincingly developed and is seen as a promise for the upgrading of the entire Brisgi site.’

The cooperations were extended in the years leading up to 2019. Three housing cooperatives are working together to create affordable living space on the Brisgi site. The Wohnbaustiftung Baden acts on behalf of the city, Logis Suisse AG creates and promotes fair housing, and the projects of independent Graphis Bau- und Wohngenossenschaft are mainly inhabited by its cooperative members.

DGJ Paysages attaches great importance to a particularly high environmental quality for all species. It has also planned the additional Allmend for the city of Baden and created a valuable project here in collaboration with Stadtnatur Baden.

At the same time, the inner courtyards near the flats are also being designed to be particularly family-friendly and the very differentiated and diverse wishes of the three housing cooperatives are being fully taken into account in the outdoor space.

New play equipment is also being used, some of which was specially developed for the Brisgi neighbourhood playground in collaboration with the manufacturer MoveArt.

In this project, new standards of the SNBS (Swiss Sustainable Building Foundation), which now also focus on the quality of outdoor spaces, were applied and we participated in the pilot phase of the BioValues(TM) Biodiversity in Settlement Areas assessment Tool.

The Brisgi Baden project has had its own website since April 2024 and is expected to be completed in 2028. https://www.brisgi-areal.ch/projekt/

Bischoff Landschaftsarchitektur from Baden has been supporting us locally since 2018. With the completion of the planning authorisation by DGJ in summer 2024, the Baden-based company took over the detailing of the landscape project as part of the general-planning team and further develops our project on site. DGJ Paysages is very pleased about this continuity in our long-standing collaboration.