Walzwerk – Student Design Competition

An open ideas competition for students of architecture, urban planning, landscape architecture, and related disciplines.

The Walzwerk site offers a unique opportunity to explore issues of densification, mixed-use development, public space, built heritage, and ecological resilience. Participants are invited to work with the site's existing character rather than erase it, and to propose interventions that create lasting social, spatial, and economic value.

The aim of the competition is to develop a conceptual design for the transformation of the Walzwerk site into a future-oriented mixed-use urban district. Participants are expected to develop a spatial and programmatic concept that engages with the existing structures and meaningfully integrates new uses and architectural interventions. The competition seeks conceptually strong yet comprehensible proposals that establish a clear position toward the site and translate it into a convincing spatial vision. The designs should respect and further develop the character of the Walzwerk site rather than replace it.

More: https://www.sfp.ch/en/sfp-group/university-competition