Europan 5 - Bern, Schweiz

The project ISOTOP sees itself as searching for lines of connectivity and similarities produced by adjacencies. Being a hybrid of a motel and a sports park the projects ties the economical input of the region onto a peripheral site thus activating the existing sequence of green leisure areas. Grass-growing tilts form the roofs of the airy gymnasiums thus establishing the wide horizon of the motel rooms. The rooms’ orientation negotiates between noise protection and permeability. The mirroring facades multiply the green surfaces. A park-like artefact emerges, densifying the principles of landscape into a three-dimensional urban pattern.