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Settelen

Commons Project

The densification of the Settelen site in Basel St. Johann frames 2.500 m2 of open spaces composed of a courtyard and an enclosed garden.

Settelen aeral studienauftrag Diener & Diener architekten Basel Studio Céline Baumann

Lyse-Lotte

Commons Project

The landscape of the housing cooperative Lyse-Lotte consists of a garden of 500 m2 within the new district of Lysbüchel Süd in Basel.

Lyse-Lotte Lysbüchel Süd Stiftung Habitat Wohngenossenschaft housing cooperative Basel Switzerland Marco Marco Merz Marion Clauss Martina Kausch

VoltaNord

Competition Territory

The urban study VoltaNord in Basel addresses the transformation of a 9 ha industrial area into a lively neighborhood with a cluster of new open spaces counting a central square, a linear park, new streets and courtyards.

Studienauftrag VoltaNord Basel Lysbüchel Areal BeL Merz & Clauss

FORUM BASEL 2050

Built Territory

Terra Incognita displays a speculative city model whose built fabric is taken over by pioneer plants, questioning Basel’s urban growth and its imminent challenges in term of ecology, biodiversity and climate change.

Forum Basel 2050 Terra Incognita Swiss Architecture Museum

Lysbüchelplatz

Competition Public Space

The “Place Jardin” is composed of a soft core and an active frame, a 4.000 m2 central public space within the new Volta Nord district in Basel.

Studienauftrag VoltaNord Basel Lysbüchel Areal BeL Merz & Clauss

Twelve Cautionary Urban Tales

Built Nonhuman

Taking inspiration from “Twelve Cautionary Tales for Christmas” by Superstudio, first published in 1971 in the magazine Architectural Design, the exhibition raises new narratives in the way we talk about the city.

Matadero Doce fábulas urbanas twelve cautionary urban tales Madrid Ethel Baraona Pohl César Reyes Taller de Casquería Naranjo-Etxeberría Superstudio parliament of plants

Lohnhof

Garden Study

Gentle interventions on the layout of the historical Lohnhof garden in Basel’s old town aim at implementing the site amenities and vegetation palette.

Lohnhof Basel garden

What is radical today?

Built Nonhuman

The Parliament of Plants displayed at the Royal Academy in London challenges the belief that matter and intelligence should be dissociated, regarding nature as more than a mere commodity.

Royal Academy of Arts London Parliament of Plants Display Exhibition What is radical today House of Commons Karl Anton Hickel

Dreieck Klybeck

Study Territory

Dreieck Klybeck is a 2 ha bottom-up urban study in Basel commissioned by the housing cooperative WG Klybeck.

Dreieck Klybeck BASF Novartis Basel-Stadt urbanism public space vertiefungsstudie WG Klybeck Basel celine baumann klybeckplus

Suspended Garden

Built Garden

The installation in the international university campus in Paris displays a cabinet of curiosities favouring a non-compliant aesthetic.

Suspended garden festival jardins du monde en mouvement l/Oblique cite international universitaire de Paris kokedamas maison du Japon celine baumann landscape architecture garden

Queer Nature

Nonhuman Research

Queerness in nature can be found everywhere. This ongoing investigation explores the little known, disregarded, and rare intimate behaviour of the botanical world.

celine baumann queer nature botany research unisexual bisexual hermaphroditic pollination future architecture

VI PER

Built Nonhuman

The exhibition at the VI PER gallery in Prague explores the power of trees, shrubs, flowers, and herbs as being a source of inspiration and share stories about their more-than-human knowledge.

queer nature VI PER gallery Prague herbarium future architecture landscape architecture plants opening studio celine baumann babylon tower secret life of plants dry garden Czech Republic palm pyramid post anthropocene non-human