Remise en valeur du site Mansfeld et de ses vestiges à Clausen (LU)

The de­sign ques­tion con­cerned the ac­ti­va­tion of the de­te­ri­o­rat­ed Renaissance cas­tle of Duke Pierre Ernest de Mansfeld into a new and vi­brant heart of the Clausen dis­trict and the city of Luxemburg as a whole. Clausen, a low­er neigh­bour­hood of Luxemburg city, has seen many lay­ers of his­to­ry leav­ing its mark: flood­plains, a monastery, in­dus­tri­al ac­tiv­i­ties, agri­cul­tur­al en­deav­ours, re­nais­sance palace, res­i­den­tial neigh­bour­hood and re­cent­ly a nightlife dis­trict. All this al­lows us to read the set­ting as a con­struct­ed palimpsest. However, the last century’s sprawl pushed some of the com­mons into the back­ground. Public baths, gar­dens, brew­eries, and mills van­ished. Our ur­ban project echoes the site’s his­to­ry while ad­dress­ing con­tem­po­rary en­vi­ron­men­tal chal­lenges. It’s not about ful­ly de­vel­op­ing Mansfeld im­me­di­ate­ly, but grad­u­al­ly re­viv­ing lay­ers of his­to­ry to find broad sup­port with the neigh­bours, the city and the wider con­text. We pro­posed in­ter­ven­tions at vary­ing speeds. Some go be­yond the des­ig­nat­ed com­pe­ti­tion plot and trig­ger lo­cal dy­nam­ics, let­ting the project take root and (pos­si­bly) be embraced.