Ziegelbrückstrasse Niederurnen

Even in a village setting, it is possible to achieve a high standard of building culture along main roads! The framework plan for Ziegelbrückstrasse in Niederurnen shows how the village's most important road can become the backbone of a livable village development.

The Ziegelbrückstrasse connects the village center of Niederurnen with the much frequented Ziegelbrücke railway station and the Jenny site, one of the municipality's most important transformation areas. The road is considered an important cycling and leisure route (including a national mountain bike route), and several post bus lines operate along it. To ensure quality, the focus is not on zones or general guidelines, but on context-specific structures. The division into three sections – “village center,” “central section,” and “station district” – responds to the specific context. In the village center, for example, there is a dense, small-scale housing structure with sloping roofs and a village-like layout, creating small niches and forecourts along the street. Due to the narrow road cross-section, there is mixed traffic and speed reduction. In the central section, a mandatory building line is proposed, with corner buildings marked at important crossings and intersections.

Thanks to the integrated approach, urban development, open space, access and land use are coordinated. In this way, traffic becomes a quality feature and the framework plan becomes a spatially effective planning tool.