Entries to competitions that form part of IBA 27 should combine high architectural quality, experimental building methods and social and ecological aspects.This concept envisages a dynamic, socially-mixed urban quarter that offers high-quality design to a range of user groups while retaining the existing trees.The design seeks to create a transition between the area of small-scale detached houses to the north and the large-scale, high-rise development to the south, while combining these two typologies with the help of an esplanade that crosses the district from east to west.The urban quality of this esplanade enables it to act as both the entrance to the quarter and a place for meeting outside the buildings. It stretches from Schozacher Straße to the sports pitch and is lined with commercial buildings, social facilities and the kindergarten as well as open areas that can find specific uses at a later stage.Hence, the esplanade connects a series of places that encourage diversity and exchange – which are essential components for a high quality of life and identification with the quarter.



The two typologies of small-scale detached houses and large-scale high-rise buildings make it possible to offer a wide range of types of home that are suitable for people at very different stages of their lives, while also encouraging coming together and a sense of community and ensuring high levels of both identification with and diversity in the quarter.The design proposes a one to twostorey development in the form of private detached houses of varying sizes that are carefully positioned between the existing trees. Private, clearly enclosed gardens are consciously preferred to a large, inactive semi-public intermediate space.


These intimate, private spaces, into which families can retreat, ensure peace and relaxation, while the esp-lanade is a central place for coming together and communicating.With their generous balconies and loggias, the towers, which taper upwards to optimise the natural watering of the planters, can be interpreted as a vertical garden city. Circulation:The quarter is accessible to pedestrians from every direction and crisscrossed by a dense network of paths. The east-west esplanade is the main axis of circulation. This is also closed to pri-vate cars, as a result of which the entire quarter can be described as car-free. Cars enter the development via the two entrances to the underground garages from Schozacher Straße and Rotweg. This two-storey garage offers space for 200 vehicles and connects the towers and the small-scale part of the development below the esplanade. Construction method: Inno-vation meets sustainabi-lity – 62% green space The hard surfaces on the site are limited to the two towers, the commercial areas and the underground garage. While the towers were planned using conventional building methods, the small-scale detached houses are designed as light timber structures built from prefabricated elements and placed on point foundations. This means that much of the site has a very small footprint and large areas are drained by seepage. At the same time, the point-foundation method embodies a very sensitive approach to dealing with the com-plex roots of the existing trees.


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Entries to competitions that form part of IBA 27 should combine high architectural quality, experimental building methods and social and ecological aspects.This concept envisages a dynamic, socially-mixed urban quarter that offers high-quality design to a range of user groups while retaining the existing trees.The design seeks to create a transition between the area of small-scale detached houses to the north and the large-scale, high-rise development to the south, while combining these two typologies with the help of an esplanade that crosses the district from east to west.The urban quality of this esplanade enables it to act as both the entrance to the quarter and a place for meeting outside the buildings. It stretches from Schozacher Straße to the sports pitch and is lined with commercial buildings, social facilities and the kindergarten as well as open areas that can find specific uses at a later stage.Hence, the esplanade connects a series of places that encourage diversity and exchange – which are essential components for a high quality of life and identification with the quarter.



The two typologies of small-scale detached houses and large-scale high-rise buildings make it possible to offer a wide range of types of home that are suitable for people at very different stages of their lives, while also encouraging coming together and a sense of community and ensuring high levels of both identification with and diversity in the quarter.The design proposes a one to twostorey development in the form of private detached houses of varying sizes that are carefully positioned between the existing trees. Private, clearly enclosed gardens are consciously preferred to a large, inactive semi-public intermediate space.


These intimate, private spaces, into which families can retreat, ensure peace and relaxation, while the esp-lanade is a central place for coming together and communicating.With their generous balconies and loggias, the towers, which taper upwards to optimise the natural watering of the planters, can be interpreted as a vertical garden city. Circulation:The quarter is accessible to pedestrians from every direction and crisscrossed by a dense network of paths. The east-west esplanade is the main axis of circulation. This is also closed to pri-vate cars, as a result of which the entire quarter can be described as car-free. Cars enter the development via the two entrances to the underground garages from Schozacher Straße and Rotweg. This two-storey garage offers space for 200 vehicles and connects the towers and the small-scale part of the development below the esplanade. Construction method: Inno-vation meets sustainabi-lity – 62% green space The hard surfaces on the site are limited to the two towers, the commercial areas and the underground garage. While the towers were planned using conventional building methods, the small-scale detached houses are designed as light timber structures built from prefabricated elements and placed on point foundations. This means that much of the site has a very small footprint and large areas are drained by seepage. At the same time, the point-foundation method embodies a very sensitive approach to dealing with the com-plex roots of the existing trees.


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