A “grand projet” for Zug
An open and lively urban quarter is to be created on the Landis & Gyr site.
Even the former French President François Mitterand described the conversion of large areas of the city of Paris as "grand projets". Christian Salewski & Simon Kretz Architects, pool Architects, Studio Vulkan Landschaftsarchitektur are planning just such a “big project” together with mrs partner: The Landis & Gyr area (LG area) is to be redesigned. Et voilà: After an urban development study contract and the transfer of the revised concept into a guide project, the next planning step can take place in summer 2021. According to the planning and building law of the canton of Zug, a development plan is required for the further development of the area. Because this ensures that the qualitative requirements for the urban and architectural design of buildings and open spaces are met.
A family of places
The winning team convinced the five property owners Alfred Müller, Credit Suisse Funds, Park Lane Zug, SBB and Thoba Immobilien with four theses: The LG area has a radiance (1) and historical depth (2). It connects people (3) and represents a kind of family of places (4). Its urban planning concept enables a very high density and at the same time creates attractive open spaces. The height development mediates between the track area in the east and the garden city in the west. A free space ring connects the subareas and thus enables easy orientation. In addition, old industrial
riebauten are preserved and become part of the new quarter.
New old train
Eliane Birchmeier, city councilor and head of the building department of the city of Zug, would like the quarter to open up: “We want a lively, tangible, very green quarter with a high quality of stay, in which inexpensive living and business are possible. A district that connects the city, including a new underpass for the railroad tracks, which will be good for the city. " There are already startups and large corporations that work from the LG area. But many Zug residents would hardly have the opportunity to enter the area if they didn't work here. "It is currently in a kind of deep sleep," says Birchmeier. That changes fundamentally with the presented project. "We are already seeing harbingers of how this area could be revitalized," says the city councilor. "For example in the Club Lounge & Gallery, in the Modi Lab Museum and especially in Freiruum, which the Zug population would no longer give up." The LG area has the chance of real change that meets the highest demands. A new piece of Zug will be created here, but it will still be Zug.