Initial situation – particular feature

The Salinental valley is a unique cultural landscape steeped in history. One graduation wall after another, each 9 meters high, cover a total of 1.1 kilometers. Brine trickles down these huge walls of blackthorn brushwood which constitute Europe's largest open-air inhalatorium (salt extraction).

Location plot

• flood retention area
• mineral spa protection zone
• urban conservation area
• nature reserves or biogenetic reserves

Design idea

• Implementation spatial qualities of the protected natural spaces
• Visual references of graduation walls and parkland
• Reduction of building mass and built surfaces
• Inclusion of materiality of graduation walls

Result

Due to quality of urban design building permit was granted.