EUROPAN 14 The Productive Cities – Die produktiven Städte

SPECIAL SPACES
Among four different urban typologies, which were shaped over a previous competition, we can identify a distinct spatial quality for each of them. Four special places shall become focal points of urbanity, where aspects of the productive, residential and cultural life interact, interweave and merge into symbiosis.
DA – RIN
The inside of this urban block stands in contrast to its outside. Blocking off customer relation and publicity, the block´s solid structure contains a wide range of housing types and private garden, a retreat, a yard, a laboratory for the community of residents and producing creators to meet, mingle and pursue their projects. The diversity of its community shows on its outside - an assembly of different architectures, with housing atop and productive businesses beneath facing the busier streets and, most importantly: ‘Da plaza‘.
DA – RUM
All around, the two solitaire buildings engage with their surroundings. The apartment building is a vertical town for new ways of life with social access balconies all around. The roof and façade is wrapped in green, with urban agriculture a top and all around. A skeleton structure allows a free-flow floorplan and exchange with urban life on the ground floor.
The productive building contains businesses throughout 3 floors with galleries illuminated through a shed roof. It interacts all around, productively in the north, publicly at the street, enjoys privacy in the west and the southern sun.
DA – RUNTER
Underneath a roof, a coworking space invites craftspeople to meet, work and collaborate. Depending on the need of this community of free creators, furniture can move around the huge hall. Together expensive machinery and specialized workshops become sustainable. The two 2 lower floors underneath the living block also offer workshops and workrooms with concealed privacy. The open community spaces connect to the yard, the waterfront and to ‚Da plaza‘. Above housing offers various housing types and community spaces.
DA – ZWISCHEN
In between two buildings there will be a mixture of actives and functionality and a highly interactive urban space shall connect producers and residents to incubate innovation. The buildings’ cross wall construction divides housing units above from the workshops underneath. Workshops open their fronts, and residential units its spacious staircase and community spaces to the ‘in between’ - an extended working space during the week and a community space at weekends.