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Winning design: lively and open, connecting and sustainable
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The new center of the quarter – as the heart of the urban planning area Böckinger Straße in Zuffenhausen‐Rot – is to be designed to be lively and open, connecting and sustainable. This is what the winning design of the competition winner UTA Architects and Urban Planners GmbH envisions, which was selected by a nine‐member jury chaired by Professor Jens Wittfoht at the end of December 2020.
This was preceded by a non‐public competition organized by the Stuttgarter Wohnungs und Städtebaugesellschaft (SWSG), in which five architectural offices took part, as well as intensive public participation with workshops and surveys, whose suggestions and ideas were included in the tender. The competition required the planning of an open space with a day care center and a meeting place for the elderly, which should serve as the central meeting point of the quarter for new and old residents.
The award‐winning design by the architectural office together with Koeber Landschaftsarchitektur GmbH, Bureau Baubotanik, Transsolar KlimaEngineering and ohlfschoch Architects, which the jury judged to fit very well into the urban structure and at the same time be self‐confident and respectful, sees green facades for the buildings and a green roof. This creates a strong and sustainable connection between the surrounding residential buildings in the new development area and the central green area.
A two‐storey facade construction at the meeting place serves as a climbing aid and thus forms an open “green room” on the roof of the building, which can be used as a district terrace by all residents of the neighborhood. Of course, play facilities for children were also considered. Mostly green areas are designed between the buildings.
The daycare building is made up of a one and a two storey structure that will accommodate six groups of children. A spacious outdoor area with different play levels is attached to the south side of the building. The two planned houses should preferably be built from recycled concrete. „The design cleverly combines architecture and nature“, says Helmuth Caesar, the technical director of the SWSG. „A very special attraction will be the accessible roof terrace of the meeting place, which offers the neighborhood a variety of possibilities“, the managing director continues.
The planning of the new center of the quarter is integrated into the urban design by the Hild und K Architektur office in collaboration with Studio Vulkan, which emerged from the implementation and ideas competition for the Böckinger Straße residential development area, which was also initiated by the SWSG at the end of 2019. The ultimate goal here is to create a lively, socially mixed urban quarter with around 360 rental apartments on the formerly predominantly agricultural site in the Rot district. For the International Building Exhibition 2027 StadtRegion Stuttgart (IBA′27), around 30 of the residential units are to be in an innovative residential and Building typology arise.
Photo: SWSG, stuttgart.de
