Basler Paradies

Basler Paradies is a housing co-operative offering approximately 150 double-height residential units, incorporating maisonettes, studios, flat-sharing cooperatives, townhouses, and family flats. Forming a block with shared balconies and terraces, the generous courtyard hosts communal areas such as a woodworking workshop, bicycle atelier, green house, and vegetable garden. Everyone has their own vision of paradise; the project provides the possibilities to build your own. A temple of columns, a structure in its pure sense; the building is based on a grid system, consisting of vertical and horizontal prefabricated elements. Full circle material recycling is envisioned; demolition, separation, production, and construction are all planned to be carried out on-site. Thanks to the structural redundancy of the elements, which allow an open, flexible floor plan design, this results in open, contemporary typologies that encourage further appropriation and adaptation.