Pratteln: Study contract for Salina Raurica is completed
In Pratteln (BL), the 200,000 sqm Salina Raurica Ost site is to be developed into an urban quarter. The study contract was won by Hosoya Schaefer Architects.
At present, the Salina Raurica Ost site is largely undeveloped. Starting in 2023, the developer Losinger Marazzi, together with the municipality of Pratteln and the canton of Basel-Landschaft, plans to build a new quarter here in several stages. Housing for 2,500 people and just as many new jobs in the high value-added sector are planned.
The concretization of the project is now taking a major step forward. At the end of March 2019, an interdisciplinary assessment committee unanimously recommended the urban design by the Hosoya Schaefer Architects team for further development. The design was presented to the public in mid-May.
It envisages the Tor zur Schweiz commercial quarter on the western side of the site and the Salinenhof quarter in the center - a residential area organized into individual blocks. Two high points with a building height of 75 m are proposed at Tor zur Schweiz and Netzibodenstrasse.
Along the railroad Hosoya Schaefer have planned a mixed-use area. Businesses are to be located in the southwestern part. The area will be divided into independent building areas organized around a central square and building complex.
The area is accessed by Salinen-Allee, which runs in an east-west direction and connects Bahnhofplatz with the gateway to Switzerland. The public-oriented uses of the new quarter are to be located along the avenue. The Siebenjurtenpark connects the area to the Rhine.
In the next few months, an outline plan will be drawn up, on the basis of which the building land reallocation will be carried out. Subsequently, individual neighborhood plans will be developed. A first such neighborhood plan for a 60,000 to 80,000 square meter pilot project should be in place by mid-2022. Groundbreaking for this will take place in 2023 at the earliest. (ah)
