Limmattal Summer Academy presents future projects
The University of Applied Sciences of Eastern Switzerland presents the results of the Limmattal Summer Academy. 60 students from national and international universities spent a week examining the Limmat Valley for planning perspectives.
The results of the Limmattal Summer Academy are currently being presented to the public by the OST- Ostschweizer Fachhochschule. The Summer Academy was about finding and describing future projects for the Limmat Valley. According to a media release, 60 students and young landscape and spatial planners, architects, traffic experts, sociologists and artists from universities in Switzerland, Germany, Austria and the Netherlands examined the Limmat Valley over the course of a week.
The Limmattal Summer Academy was commissioned by the cantons of Aargau and Zurich and carried out by the OST – Ostschweizer Fachhochschule. Its results can be seen in the marquee at the Schlierefäscht until 10 September and will then travel to the Limmattal communities.
“The Limmattal is one of the most dynamic core regions in Switzerland, the number one growth region,” Schlieren’s mayor Markus Bärtschiger is quoted as saying during this presentation. In order to be prepared for a sustainable future, however, the Limmat Valley needs new and unconventional impulses.
The activities are concentrated on four focus areas: For example, the Zürcherstrasse between Unter- and Oberengstringen is to be upgraded to an aggloboulevard with recreational and green spaces. Another group of students combined the Fahrweid area into an emerald green ring by upgrading and linking ecological bridges in the area.
The Silbern industrial cluster in Dietikon is to transition to a circular economy and become climate-adapted thanks to a pilot project. Ensuring public accessibility and usability of the riparian areas for all calls for a project around the Spreitenbach, Killwangen and Würenlos railway station area.