Wrapped up warm and early on Thursday morning, we started our Christmas office excursion. Together we made our way to Switzerland. With a short stopover at the Brickworks Museum in Cham, we travelled to Lucerne and Zurich. Here we gained great insights into a wide range of cooperative construction projects. We learnt about the participatory and planning processes behind them. We also learnt how these are now being reflected on and adapted retrospectively. At the Teiggi in Lucerne and on the Hunziker site in Zurich, we were even able to catch a glimpse of individual flats in the cooperatives. And because there was still a little more of the day left than expected, we were given the opportunity to take a short tour of Kalkbreite. Here we rounded off the excursion with a delicious coffee in the Zollhaus.
The diversity of personalities, strategies and buildings that we got to know inspired us greatly. We are already looking forward to implementing and applying the experience we have gained in our own projects.