Planning guide for good living spaces

The intelligent and appropriate use of living space as a resource is culturally, socially and economically crucial for our future. However, building within existing built and lived settlement structures poses unfamiliar challenges for the actors.

This methodical guide serves as a navigation aid for planners, and anyone involved in developing transformation processes. Its goal is the strategic and professional empowerment of those actors. It offers an overview of the key questions for each planning phase and the in-fluencing factors that need to be taken into account.

On the basis of current case studies from Switzerland, it explores the opportunities and risks inherent in the feedback loop between methodology and practice.

• Easy-to-understand planning guide for good living spaces
• Foundational work for students, planners and anyone involved in planning processes
• Simply structured volume that identifies key issues and illustrates solutions through practical examples

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Editor and Author

Robert Braissant studied architecture at the ETH Zurich with Bernhard Hoesli, Franz Oswald and Mario Campi and at the CEPT School of Architecture in Ahmedabad, India. In his younger years he worked for Olson/Walker Architects in Seattle, Mario Campi in Lugano, Andrea Roost and Franz Oswald in Bern. In 1990 he founded the office B Architekten in Bern with friends. In addition to his work in the office, he is active in various expert commissions and juries. Since 2015, he has been teaching as a professor of architecture and urban design at the Bern University of Applied Sciences, where he also supervises research projects in the competence area Dencity - Urban Development and Mobility. In his bridging position between practice, research and teaching, he is committed to a synthesis of practical relevance and progressive, sustainable values.

Contributing authors and interviewees

Cedric Bachelard, Daniel Baur, Philipp Cabane, Andreas Courvoisier, Rolf Mühlethaler, Donat Senn, Jörg Vitelli