Kaufbeuren (DE) winner
Elisenda Lurbes Soriano (ES)
Nou de Sadurni 9, 2º 4ª
landscape engineer
08001 Barcelona, Spain
Ana Quintana Zazurca (ES)
T. +34 656612927 / T. +34 699955970
Sergio Romero Moreno (ES)
ana.quintana.zazurca@
Giorgia Sgarbossa (IT)
gmail.com
architects
244 Integration through exploiting local identity
Fasten your seatbelt! Team point of view The main issue is the way the architecture and the landscape interact at the territorial scale and enact a new relationship with the city using a multi-layered approach which consists of a structure that leads to a flexible process. Different rhythms coexist at the urban scale: urban farming, research activities, energy production and variable living styles. The design issues adaptability, conserving the identity of the old military airbase by exploiting the main lines of its layout; it also aims to resolve the disconnection with the old town, giving new value to the existing walls and pre-existing fabric. The development is part of a phased process where the architectural structures will be planned flexibly to meet the town’s changing needs. Jury point of view The project makes a distinction between a well-defined urban style park next to the town centre and the more open treatment of the largest part of the area as an extensive landscape park. One major factor of attraction is that the runway is preserved as a design element forming a central visual axis in the landscape. The project ensures that the redevelopment can be realised in several phases. The subdivision of the site provides a strong framework for the flexibility of future development.
Adaptable structure leads to productive open scenarios
Cross section uses
Territorial scale, Kaufbeuren as Belly Button
