Recollection can be an absolute step forward.
The Zollinger municipal council found out now.
Zolling
- The Zollingen councilors heard an urgent plea for the preservation of village structures on Tuesday. Architect Gloria Glatt came to report on her master's thesis. The message was clear: use opportunities to preserve the village character of a village when building, "to rediscover old village spaces", as she said. For Mayor Helmut Priller it was clear after the presentation and after a look around the community council: "You spoke from the heart of many." Constant pressure from the settlements, which makes the designation of new residential areas necessary, "Land consumption like never before" - that is the challenge villages would face for years. Instead of identifying uniform single-family home areas where "the space between the houses" is often forgotten,where isolation threatens and there is an “enormous use of space”, one should rather think about building higher and narrower buildings again in villages.
Narrow streets, wide squares: create meeting places
If you look at old village structures, you will notice the variable density: small and large structures, no overly strict rules of arrangement, long buildings and high houses, village spaces as street spaces, paths, edges, narrow alleys and wide squares. In short: “Places to create encounters” and “a vitality in which one feels comfortable”. So what to do More structural use in the villages would counteract the expansion of the settlements, as well as the reuse and conversion of old farmsteads, so a suggestion by Glatt. Instead of single-family houses, family-friendly apartments should be built in two- to three-story buildings, with single-family houses intelligent floor plans should allow more flexibility, local elements - for example the structure of a street village - should be included in planning,Different living typologies should be made possible, apartments for all situations and phases of life should be available.
And what can a community do to encourage such a building method that does not spoil the village character?
The architect from Zolling had an answer to this as well: Allowing closer development with smaller spaces, but at the same time accepting open spaces and creating “successful public outdoor spaces”, removing the priority of private car traffic so that the streets “belong to the people again” ",
Village design: wooden picket fence instead of concrete wall
Design options through garages, sheds and garden fences should be used in such a way that one feels in a village. Example: a wooden picket fence instead of a concrete or gabion wall to enclose the property. None of this is currently on the municipal council's agenda. But that could change. "If a committee deals with this question, you are cordially invited to take part," said Helmut Priller's offer to Gloria Glatt.