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Preservation is not about freezing time, but reactivating forgotten thresholds.A building rarely loses its identity to t...
29/09/2026

Preservation is not about freezing time, but reactivating forgotten thresholds.
A building rarely loses its identity to time, but rather to the uncalculated neglect of its physical thresholds. In this residence, elevated upper living spaces were severed from the soil, leaving lower service quarters shadowed and under-utilised.
Rather than imposing heavy-handed structural additions, we intervened through the small grain of the existing fabric. Guided by Altneu and site-specific colour archaeology, we re-articulated joinery, plaster, and basement thresholds to bring light deep into the lower plinth. By taking existing spatial memory seriously, the house reclaims its presence through material logic rather than cosmetic styling.
Can site-specific colour archaeology restore a building’s character more effectively than structural expansion? What happens when we treat secondary service spaces as primary archives of spatial potential?
📍 Project: Basel Solar Villa, Basel
📷 Photography / Documentation: MIDERI ARCHITEKTEN GMBH
🏗️ Tectonics / Transformation:

Minimizing material is a radical ecological act.True sustainability means zero waste and strict resource reduction—not a...
22/09/2026

Minimizing material is a radical ecological act.

True sustainability means zero waste and strict resource reduction—not applying photovoltaics as greenwashed decoration. At MIDERI, ecological logic is never an afterthought; it is the empirical foundation of our work. Whether designing a temporary installation or a permanent residential complex, we rely on hard math and structural honesty.

How can the industry move past superficial greenwashing to embrace uncompromising material efficiency?

Photography
Image 1 Piotr Hraptovich
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Image 7 Piotr Hraptovich

Can a 150-year-old historic villa run on 100% solar without sacrificing its character?Standard photovoltaics are an indu...
15/09/2026

Can a 150-year-old historic villa run on 100% solar without sacrificing its character?

Standard photovoltaics are an industrial afterthought. Picture by Piotr Hraptovich

Here, energy generation is the roof surface: custom diamond BIPV matched to 19th-century slate geometry, framed by hand-fitted copper designed to age over decades. Tiles by Freesuns

We don’t build for 15 minutes of social media fame; we build for the next two centuries. Picture by Piotr Hraptovich

Architecture: MIDERI ARCHITEKTEN. Baumanagement: Martini Schäfer Baumanagement GmbH

A house is for the inhabitants, not for the architect ego. At the Basel Solar Villa, our strategy centered on “Soft Radi...
01/09/2026

A house is for the inhabitants, not for the architect ego.

At the Basel Solar Villa, our strategy centered on “Soft Radicality”—listening deeply to the owners’ living habits and applying uncompromising structural rigor to build them into physical reality. Rather than expanding the building’s physical footprint with a costly extension, we practiced preservation as surgery. Reclaiming an unheated subterranean concrete void beneath the terrace to create a bespoke 6 m² pine sauna framing direct views of the garden and pool. This way we brought to life a neglected villa, making real the dream of two private clients.

Translating private intuition into built reality requires endless “approximative orbits”. We spent weeks in questioning how far surgical intervention could go without destroying the historic character. Reclaiming dark, unused storage cavities to house complex energy infrastructure and wellness spaces required balancing strict local codes, technical constraints, and spontaneous client desires.

Should residential architecture impose an authorial signature on a home, or act as a flexible, highly tailored framework designed entirely around human daily life?

📍 Project: Basel Solar Villa (POS 41), Basel
📷 Photography: Piotr Hraptovich
🛠️ Project Management: Martini Schäfer Baumanagement GmbH
🛠️ Roof: Freesuns

Only culturally relevant buildings stand.  Architecture does not expire when a single function ends; by upcycling indust...
25/08/2026

Only culturally relevant buildings stand.

Architecture does not expire when a single function ends; by upcycling industrial, automobile, and military structures into precise workplaces, domestic spaces, and public cultural engines, we prove that a permanent framework never goes obsolete.

Because demolition is an economic and ecological failure: a destruction of embodied capital, grey energy, and collective memory.
We reject short-sighted construction built for transitory trends to forge permanent architectural frameworks capable of absorbing the radiosity of future lives.

Can a building truly be sustainable if it cannot adapt to lives we have not yet imagined?

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Collaboration
Kaserne: MIDERI & (as FDRS)
Playground: MIDERI & (as FDRS)
Angensteinerstrasse: MIDERI & (as FDRS) with

The most sustainable building is the one that never needs to be torn down. Demolition is capital destruction. In Sion, o...
04/08/2026

The most sustainable building is the one that never needs to be torn down.

Demolition is capital destruction. In Sion, our parking and service structures are engineered with future adaptation in their DNA—designed with generous heights and a central ramp to seamlessly convert into office spaces as mobility habits evolve.

Why build single-use structures destined for demolition the moment habits change?

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Project Spotlight: Water Plazas Swimmable Cities European Forum 2026“Why do communities change every 100 meters along th...
30/07/2026

Project Spotlight: Water Plazas Swimmable Cities European Forum 2026

“Why do communities change every 100 meters along the Rhein promenade?”

Basel—a pocket metropolis home to more than 160 nationalities—enjoys a hyper-vibrant waterfront shared by highly diverse communities. The “Water Plazas” framework by MIDERI Architekten decodes the underlying logic of these spatial shifts.

Instead of treating the promenade as one single, continuous plaza, this framework reimagines the riverfront as a curated sequence of interconnected public grounds. Each node is specific to its city cluster, micro-climate, and degrees of swimmability.

By analyzing how different fluvial infrastructures provoke unique community gatherings, the project establishes a scalable blueprint for future riverfront extensions—critical for a waterfront currently reaching its “broken by success” tipping point.

Discover Water Plazas and other innovative urban projects at the upcoming Swimmable Cities European Forum (Aug 11–12, Basel).

Tickets & Event Info: Link in bio Swimmable Cities

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Architect: MIDERI ARCHITEKTEN GMBH
Artistic Collaboration (Photography & Video):
Graphic Design: Pascal Storz
Originally commissioned by Kanton Basel-Stadt The City of Basel as part of the 서울도시건축비엔날레

Forum: Swimmable Cities

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