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🏅 1st prize in the workshop process on the future of Altona Station for team @studio_erde & @bueronoto – and invited to further develop the proposal besides team @vogtlandscape & @cfmoller_architects (congratulations!) - Our contribution understands the site as part of a long-term urban transformation process: instead of demolition, we propose to continue building. Infrastructure is not replaced, but recoded – into urban space, into a carrier of new public qualities. The station becomes a hall for the City between park and plaza, embedded in a system of mobility, open space, and urban life. The bus terminal transforms into a boulevard, the square into a climate-active public realm. To the north, a succession park emerges on the former rail tracks: an open process landscape where urban ecology can unfold. Demolition material becomes topography; contaminated soils are gradually regenerated through phytoremediation and filtering processes. Ruderal vegetation, clusters of trees, and water bodies create a dynamic mosaic of microclimates, biodiversity, and new spaces for appropriation. A project about building-on in the Anthropocene: polyphonic, layered, and open-ended. On to the next phase! 💪

1. Joos van Craesbeeck: “The Temptation of St. Anthony”, ca. 1650. In the Renaissance, St. Anthony is often depicted as a madman who rejects humanism to retreat into nature and live as a hermit (Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe); 2./3. studio erde’s speculative project “Climate Sanctuaries” calls for a radical rethinking of museums, moving beyond static city-centered institutions to become active testing grounds for artistic and scientific practices situated in vulnerable and remote landscapes around the globe (@studio_erde ). See interview with Regine Keller (@regine.keller ) and Marcel Tröger (@studio_erde ): “A Landscape Architecture for the Anthropocene”, in ARCH+ 263 Stadtnatur I Urban Nature. — Urban nature is not a green add-on, but an expression of a city’s material, social, and historical conditions. This new ARCH+ issue explores urban nature as a political project and a collective resource, with a focus on landscape architecture and its central role in the city’s social and ecological transformation. Stadtnatur ist kein grünes Add-on zur Stadt, sondern Ausdruck ihrer materiellen, sozialen und historischen Bedingungen. Die neue ARCH+ Ausgabe “Stadtnatur | Urban Nature” zeigt urbane Natur als politisches Projekt und kollektive Ressource. Im Fokus steht die Landschaftsarchitektur als Schlüsselakteurin der sozialökologischen Transformation der Stadt. — 👉 Out now in stores and online! / Jetzt im Buchhandel & online erhältlich! Fully bilingual: English / German Get your copy at the 🔗 in bio — #urbannature #landscapearchitecture #landscapedesign #climateadaptation #resilientcities Design: @albrecht_gaebel @dansolbachstudio Cover: Lois Weinberger

. 📣 OPEN CALL ————————————————— 👣 WALKING. Denken in Bewegung Symposium und Walkshops 🗓 ZÜRICH: 5. bis 7. Juni 2026 📍 Labör im MFO-Areal, Oerlikon, Zürich 🗓 BASEL: 11. bis 13. September 2026 📍 Holzpark, Klybeck, Basel ————————————————— WALKING geht 2026 in die nächste Runde. Nach der erfolgreichen ersten Durchführung im Jahr 2025 folgen zwei weitere Ausgaben mit jeweils einem Symposium und Walkshops. Ausgehend von der Promenadologie (Spaziergangswissenschaft) von Annemarie und Lucius Burckhardt laden wir Künstler:innen, Forscher:innen und Spaziergänger:innen ein, das Gehen als kritische, räumliche und künstlerische Praxis zu erkunden. 🧭 Formate: Walkshops, performative Spaziergänge, Lecture Performances, Roundtables und Talks. 👉 Teilnahme kostenlos, Verpflegung auf eigene Kosten 👥 Maximal 30 Plätze pro Ort 📌 Anmeldung bis 30. April 2026 für Zürich 📌 Anmeldung bis 30. Juni 2026 für Basel 🎯 Eigene Beiträge einreichen bis 30. April 2026 🔗 Link in Bio. Registration: https://ilea.art/walking-denken-in-bewegung Kuratorium: @violetaburckhardt , @johannes.m.hedinger Organisation: ILEA @land_and_environmental_art , @studio_erde Kooperation: @Lab ör, @holzparkklybeck , @lokal_fuer_raumbegehung , ETH (D-ARCH), Ponyhof 34, DSI Community Gaming, Swiss Game Hub, ISEK, ZHdK, Hafechäs, Gannet u.a. Support: Lucius & Annemarie Burckhardt Stiftung u.a. #Walking #promenadologie #spaziergangswissenschaft #strollology #walkshop

Das Team @studio_erde und @atelier_nu haben den Projektwettbewerb um die Erneuerung der Siedlung Wibich gewonnen. #landschaftsarchitektur #bslafsap #architektur #arealentwicklung

Malley school competition project with our friends @maciverekchevroulet and @studio_erde 🧒👦🏽 🌳 📖 ✏️

. . A Circular Future District as an Anthropocene Post-Industrial Landscape Location: Jüchen Client: Special Purpose Association *Landfolge Garzweiler* – Urban Development as well as Green and Transport Infrastructure Year: 2024–2025 Partners: Octagon Architektur Kollektiv, @studio_erde Programme: Urban Design and Open Space Planning Framework Plan Team: Gerda Seidelmann (O), Serafima Kreusch (O), Katharina Haker (O), Annmarie Meißner (O), Nuria Keeve (SE), Marcel Tröger (SE) With the development of the Jüchen-Süd quarter, the former Garzweiler open-cast mining landscape is transformed into a new, future-oriented living environment. The project understands resettlement not as a conventional urban expansion, but as a conscious response to the profound interventions of the past. The aim is to create a district that acknowledges responsibility for landscape exploitation and derives a new identity from it. The territorial reconfiguration follows the principle of “forest first”, in which vegetation structures determine spatial organisation, access and parcel layout. Trees form the structural framework of the district, enabling gradual settlement embedded within the landscape. Research-oriented real-world laboratories and start-up clusters act as incubators for sustainable technologies and new economic models. The district thus becomes a living laboratory for circular construction, energy generation and resource-efficient production methods. Diverse housing and living models promote social diversity and new forms of cohabitation. The close integration of living, working and productive landscape spaces fosters a strong sense of community. A radically circular approach shapes local value creation and the everyday lives of residents. Energy, food, materials and water are organised in closed-loop systems. An open, porous underlying grid allows for long-term adaptation, growth and transformation of the district. /projekt/stadt-teil-der-zukunft-juechen-sued/

Competition review 2025 — studio erde / Designing for the Anthropocene for us is a question of structure, time, and responsibility. Our competition work in 2025 explores how systemic thinking — soils, water, climate, and actors— becomes spatial form: legible, robust, and open to change. Polyphonic landscapes, where ecological processes, social practices, and architectural figures co-produce space. The outcomes reflect this position: 5× 1st prize / commission, 4× 2nd prize, 3× 3rd prize. We thank our collaborators, partners, and colleagues for a year of shared authorship, critical dialogue, and trust in Baukunst as a project of the Anthropocene. Awarded competition projects 2025
1st prize / commission — Erneuerung Siedlung Wibich, Zurich with @atelier_nu · Testplanung Olten with @camponovobaumgartner · Benjamin Franklin Platz, Mannheim · Hamburg Klima-Campus with @robertneun · Feuerwehr Langrickenbach with @allen.crippa @julian_felix 
2nd prize — Storchensiedlung am Bach with @camponovobaumgartner · Erweiterung Schule Maure with @stadler_zlokapa · K47, Berlin with @sergisonbates_london · Wohnturm, Basel with @waldrapzurich 
3rd prize — Neubau Schulcampus Malley with @urbaite.ch @maciverekchevroulet · Erweiterung Schulcampus Stadel with @_aequipe_ · Erneuerung Sport- und Schulcampus Rüschlikon with #cnbarchitekten Further Glimpses into the execution of our built projects, lecture and studies, and installations will follow in a seperate post. #landscapearchitecture #studioerde #urbanlandscape #swissarchitecture

A real treat to work with @urbaite.ch and @studio_erde for the Malley school competition, and an honour to receive third prize! The school rises vertically as a compact volume, preserving the magnificent cedars on site, while a vertical playground links the park to the classrooms.

🥈Second prize for our project “Storchensiedlung am Bach” — together with our friends at @camponovobaumgartner . 🌿 The project grows directly out of Oetwil am See’s ecological fabric. Existing garden structures, topographic edges and habitat corridors form the backbone of the design. By linking open meadows, woodland fringes, wet zones and aquatic spaces, the neighbourhood becomes part of a larger ecological network. Five landscape characters structure the site — Storchenplatz, Garden Courts, Forest Edge, Creek Band and Stork Meadow — each contributing specific micro-habitats: shady old trees, orchard edges, moisture-changing hollows, wild-herb underplantings, decentralised infiltration fields and the creek as a guiding line for water and movement. The white stork is both symbol and real co-inhabitant. With nesting structures, open feeding areas and preserved horst trees, the design supports its return — while also creating spaces for field larks, robins, swifts, bats, wild bees and amphibians. A landscape that is climate-sensitive, biodiverse and deeply intertwined with everyday life — living ecology as the framework for a new neighbourhood.

Aquifer Machines (2025) - Our critical contribution to the 100 year Garden City Exhibition transforms @liebling_haus into a multi-scalar interface of the Coastal Aquifer. A digital and fluid water map and three spatial installations translate the hidden groundwater body into sensorial, ecological, and atmospheric experiences. At the core lies the Critical Water Map, which traces the Coastal Aquifer from Tel Aviv down to Gaza and Sinai. It visualizes the aquifer as both a dynamic ecological system and a contested cultural landscape shaped by extraction, pollution, salinization, and fragmented management. Yet the mapping also reveals its connective force: beneath political borders and conflicts, the aquifer functions as a shared and fragile medium linking communities, territories, and ecologies. In this moment of crisis, the aquifer is understood not only as a site of vulnerability but also as a possible medium of repair. The three Aquifer Machines translate these dynamics into physical encounters.
At the entrance, a fog shower immerses visitors in a cooling cloud that makes urban evaporation cycles tangible.
In the bathroom, a slow-dripping micro-wetland grows algae, lichens, and papyrus — plants native to the coastal aquifer known for filtering and cleaning water, carrying ecological and cultural memory into the domestic scale.
On the roof, a dancer-like dew collector hovers above the city, harvesting moisture from the air and visualizing the delicate exchanges of the Critical Zone where atmosphere, climate, and groundwater meet. Together, the map and installations portray the Coastal Aquifer as a layered, vulnerable, and deeply interdependent waterscape — one that holds both the pressures of the present and the potential for shared futures. Team studio erde: Sarah Gerdiken - a big Thanks!!, Nuria Keeve, Marcel Tröger Congratulations and Thanks for the invitation dear Liebling Team - @liebling_haus - the wonderful curators @shira_lb @limonarc And thank my dearest @avnerflute for the help with the sounds! 💙

RESET presents: “Polyphonic Landscapes – An Architecture of the Anthropocene” with Marcel Tröger, studio erde, Zürich/Berlin Marcel Tröger is a landscape architect and urban designer whose work, teaching, and research explore the intersection of ecology, material transformation, and social processes as co-creative design agents. His practice, studio erde, develops regenerative design strategies for landscapes and cities in the Anthropocene—conceiving landscape as a polyphonic fabric of geological, biological, and socio-technical layers. 🗓 29.10.25 | 🕝 14:30–16:00 I📍Zoom #urbanism #landscapearchitecture #anthropocene #regenerativedesign #studioerde #JadeHochschule #architecturelecture #urbanlandscape #ecologicaldesign