OTTO LINNE PREIS - luchterhandt

OTTO LINNE PREIS
für urbane Landschaftsarchitektur
Otto Linne Award for Urban Landscape Architecture
Strategies for the mouth of the Bille - Competition brief

Table of Contents
Competion brief
Single-stage, International Design Competition for Students and Young Graduates in Landscape
Architecture
1. Introductions and aims 4
2. Otto Linne Award: aspirations and perspectives 5
3. Sponsors
4. Information about the review area 8
4.1 City districts/usages 10
4.2 Traffic flows and structures 18
4.3 Water bodies 20
4.4 Green areas/spaces 22
4.5 Current plans/prospects 28
5. Project brief 44
6. Otto Linne - one of Hamburgs`s major landscape gardeners and architects 48
7. Photo documentation 50
8. Procedure 58
3

1. Introduction and Aims
The intention behind the Otto Linne Award is to reward designs which develop a forward-looking attitude
to urban landscape architecture. Following the reinstatement of the award in 2009, for which
young landscape architects were required to come to grips with a complex situation where Hamburg-
Altona slopes down to the Elbe, the brief for the 2011 Otto Linne Award calls into question the classic
limitations of landscape architecture and focuses on Rothenburgsort district’s “Stadttor Südost” (the
south-east ‘gateway’ to the city) and the area round the mouth of the Bille river - a site where there is
a massive overlapping of issues involving traffic planning, the built environment, urban development
and, of course, open space planning.
More than hitherto, it is hoped that the Otto Linne Award will encourage designers to take a long, hard
look at the principles and conceivable perspectives of urban landscape architecture. The intention is
that work on the issues raised by this part of Hamburg will spark a high-calibre debate in professional
circles, stimulate controversial ideas and find new images which make the process clear.
To “provoke” those entering for Otto Linne Award into producing innovative, surprising approaches to
a solution, the issues and project brief have not been closely defined. Specifically, the jury is not looking
for feasible designs which must correspond with the stated objectives. Rather it is the task of the
competition entrants to identify the challenges of this location themselves and to develop their own
project brief – relating to the specific place selected and with a view to stating a general position on the
profession of “landscape architect” now and in future.
The challenge of the 2011 Otto Linne Award
For the Otto Linne Award in 2011 the sponsors have deliberately chosen not to narrowly define the issues
to be addressed or the associated review area, in order to promote entrants’ creativity. Competitors
should enter into a dialogue with the location, soak up its atmosphere and at the same time reflect on
the nature of forward-looking, urban landscape architecture and how it might be adopted for the area
around the mouth of the Bille. Just as Otto Linne, himself a pioneer accustomed to thinking outside the
box, would have liked. The sponsors are convinced that the entrants will submit forward-looking, creative
answers which will allow them to embark on a fresh debate about urban landscape architecture.
4

2. Otto Linne Award: aspirations and perspectives
Following questions are intended to illustrate the goal to which the Otto Linne Award for Urban Landscape
Architecture aspires and describe the perspectives:
• What issues are currently associated with future-oriented landscape and open space planning?
• Which methods and procedures seem likely, from the landscape architect’s point of view, to provide
convincing answers to the recognized challenges of climate change, consumption of resources,
information overload, rapid obsolescence, an aging population and an increasing diversity
of lifestyles?
• In what direction could and should the professional profile of the modern landscape architect
develop? What role/position might planners take?
• Which media seem to offer suitable ways of communicating contemporary landscape architecture
to a range of different actors and encouraging them to contribute or become involved?
The Otto Linne Award invites a debate on the perspectives adopted by professional landscape architects.
It is hoped that the entries will spark a debate about the ways in which the job of the urban landscape
architect has changed over the last few decades and how the profession should or must develop.
5

3. Sponsors
Ministry of Urban Development and the Environment (BSU) -
management of Otto Linne’s legacy of parks and gardens
As a consequence of the Greater Hamburg Law of 1937 the various gardens departments of what had
been independent towns and municipalities were grouped together and centralized. After 1949 Hamburg
became a single municipality with seven boroughs. The BSU has its own specialists for urban green
spaces and, together with the garden departments in the boroughs, sees itself as heir to a tradition of
parks and gardens management which originated in places such as Harburg, Wandsbek, Altona, and
historic Hamburg.
igs internationale gartenschau hamburg 2013
From April to October of the year 2013 Hamburg will once again be the venue of an international garden
show. The goal is to create a park for the 21st century on the Elbe island of Wilhelmsburg, Europe’s
largest river island. The location itself already suggests that here too the attractive Hamburg mixture of
water and greenery will be playing a leading role. This blend will be enriched by modern themes such
as open-air fitness programmes, and recreation and exercise in pleasant surroundings. Apart from its
waterfront situation, Wilhelmsburg’s chief characteristics are an international population and its closeness
to the port. This inspired the igs 2013 to choose “Around the world in 80 gardens” as its motto.
The design of the gardens, stimulating play areas and a wide variety of food and drink will reflect the
cultural diversity of this Elbe island. The igs 2013 will spread its wings beyond Wilhelmsburg. Cooperation
projects are being initiated in the metropolitan region of Hamburg too. The igs 2013 sees the Otto Linne
Award as a way to foster a fundamental debate among the students and young graduates of schools of
landscape architecture about current urban landscape architecture issues – by encouraging participants
from many countries to work on solutions for Hamburg’s areas of future development.
6

“The mouth of the Bille is a
transit space, inner city periph-
ery, disjointed infrastructure,
workplace and home at one and
the same time. Over the course
of time, changing uses, land-
scape and architectural
interventions
and migration patterns of the
local populace will once again
reveal the potential of natural
spaces in the area round the
mouth of the Bille.”
Hans Gabányi, Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg, Minis-
try of Urban Development and the Environment

4. Information about the review area
The review area is fringed by neighbourhoods with diversified structures and uses and differing characters.
Areas mainly given over to light industry abut residential quarters, which in turn rub shoulders
with office blocks; this variety of usages is then criss-crossed by roads, railways and waterways.
The mouth of the Bille is like a hinge linking the various types of use and it is already apparent that the
effect is both to divide and to connect.
The city neighbourhoods which give the review area its face are described below.
8
review area
review area

Wholesale Market
Oberhafen
Lock
City South
B 4
Flood control basin
Bille
Piggyback rail station
(Huckepackbahnhof)
9
review area

4.1 City districts/usages
Hammerbrook
(Hamburg urban development forum 1993)
Hammerbrook is north of the Bille, next to the flood control basin. Historically, Hammerbrook developed
in three separate stages:
Marshlands until 1850
Regulating the flow of the Bille in the 13th century created the cultivated landscape of Hammerbrook.
Dykes and drainage systems permitted agricultural use. In the 14th century the area was brought within
the city boundaries. The process of splitting inner from outer Hammerbrook began in the 17th century
with the completion of Hamburg’s defensive ring wall which ran where Heidenkampsweg now is. In the
first half of the 19th century Hamburg‘s systematic development plan led to the growth of an early industrial
era mixed-use area in inner Hammerbrook. In 1842 the Hamburg-Bergedorf railway was opened
and extended to Berlin in following years.
The eastern or outer Hammerbrook district, which directly adjoined the newly created flood control
basin, become increasingly popular with craftsmen and farmers and as a place for bourgeois pleasure
gardens, creating a unique environment within the meadow landscape.
Gruenderzeit developments and reformed architecture prior to the 2nd World War
From 1880 onwards, the expansion of industrial production and the opening up of new markets
thanks to improved transport infrastructure resulted in the redevelopment of outer Hammerbrook in
the Gruenderzeit style. Along the continuation of Middle and South Canals, the practice of Hamburg
merchants to have access to their buildings from both road and waterway was adopted for sites being
developed for industry, and the Bille was canalized accordingly.
10

Deutsche Grundkarte
11

The preferred uses for plots of land with street-only access were multi-storey residential block developments.
At the same time a comprehensive infrastructure was created, including schools, churches,
bathing facilities, municipal utilities and parks.
The no-frills Reform architecture of the 1920s particularly made its mark in the east of the district and
remains in evidence to this day.
The Nazi dictatorship planned to systematically clear Hammerbrook of its residential population. Especially
large numbers of Communist voters lived in the area, and it was decided to reserve this section
of the city exclusively for port and industry use in the “Greater Hamburg” that was to arise after “final
victory” had been won. Housing in the marshland, the lowlands by the Elbe, was deemed detrimental
to the “Health of the Nation” and declared a planning taboo for urban developers.
The area was almost totally destroyed in the 2nd World War. Before July 1943 40,000 residents lived
here; after 10 days of bombing raids only a few hundred were left. The SS forced the survivors out of the
district and sealed it off hermetically. And so a gigantic city of the dead lay in the heart of Hamburg.
The destruction was cynically called a “fortunate happening” that would allow buildings reflecting
Nazi town-planning ideology to be put up instead. This historical shock brought changes that are still
felt today, because the general plan developed at the time later became the foundation for post-war
rebuilding plans.
Development up to 2010
Large parts of Hammerbrook remained uninhabited ruins. Based on the rebuilding plan (1948/54) the
area was designated a zone of predominantly industrial use. A residential population persisted only
in the east, huddled together in temporary housing. Picking up the threads of pre-war life, business
restarted in the stimulants-making industry, vehicle trading & repair, forwarding, wholesaling and
warehousing and the provision of public utilities. The new comprehensive plan (UK equivalent, local
development framework) of 1973 and the draft programme plans of 1977 cemented the development of
a monostructure which started with the 1948/54 designation as industrial zone where people work but
do not live.
12

Not until the regional landscape programme of 1990 was drafted, was the proposal made to use larger
swathes of “outer Hammerbrook” for a mix of homes and workplaces. There were also plans, in the
context of “environmental redevelopment”, to reduce existing pollution and to extend the green finger
connections already in the area and develop possible new options for such wedges, especially along the
edge of the Bille.
City South
Until 1943 City South, a neighbourhood in the Hammerbrook district, was a densely populated area with
good infrastructure where most of the residents were working class families. After the Second World War
the authorities decided against rebuilding the housing areas, and as a result the site remained derelict
for many years. In the 1980s plans were developed, and later implemented, to build offices in west
Hammerbrook in order to satisfy rising demand for office space and relieve some of the pressure on
Hamburg city centre. In 1995 the City South advocacy group was founded and set itself the task of trying
to make the location, which is ideally served by a local train service, more attractive. For example a supermarket
was opened in the area, there is now a twice-weekly street market, public spaces have been
made more attractive and the lighting in the train station improved in the interests of greater safety.
Today, central City South offers around 1 million m² of office space, covering a total area of 82 ha. Some
27,000 people work here, but only 700 live in the area.
13

Outer Hammerbrook
To the east the outer Hammerbrook neighbourhood of Hammerbrook borders on the flood control basin
and its salient feature is a very heterogeneous structure.
Usage
• Housing in the eastern third only
• In the west: mixed use comprising manufacturing, wholesale, retail and services
• Large area where utilities and waste disposal businesses operate next to the flood control basin
• Sports fields next to the flood control basin, planned by Otto Linne
Green spaces/water bodies
• Green spaces along the sides of the flood control basin and isolated pockets on the bank of the Bille
• In general consisting only of roadside trees
• Allotments in the east
• In the east between Bille and Süderstrasse there is a large conglomeration of public and private
green space, most of it lawns
HafenCity
HafenCity is currently the biggest inner city development project in Europe. The 157-ha-site is being developed
into a new waterfront city district, to be used for a mix of workplaces and homes, retail outlets,
leisure pursuits, gastronomy and culture. Size alone is not all that makes this project unusual. Unlike
similarly dimensioned urban development projects, it occupies a central inner-city location.
HafenCity’s distinguishing features are the high quality of the architecture and open space design plus
a wide variety of relationships with the water.
HafenCity is steadily taking shape and maturing into a distinctive district in Hamburg’s central city. Almost
half of the construction volume underlying the master plan that was adopted in 2000 has either
been completed, is now being built or is guaranteed by deed of sale and an undertaking to build on
the land purchased.
14

Rothenburgsort
Hamburg’s Rothenburgsort is a classic working
class neighbourhood covering about 7.6 square
km. This area is home to 8,938 people, for a population
density of 1,176 inhabitants/km². Manufacturing
dominates the district, which is situated
at the point where the Bille empties into the
Elbe; it has widely varying structures: Billhuder
Island with allotments (38 ha), an industrial estate
(Billwerder Ausschlag Island) which is cut
through the middle by Bullenhuser Canal, railway
facilities and local rail stations, a residential
neighbourhood and Entenwerder Park.
The Entenwerder Elbe Park opened in 1997 on
the derelict Entenwerder peninsula where port
activities had been discontinued; together with
Trauns Park on its eastern border, it offers a recreation
area for the local populace of Rothenburgsort.
Trauns Park was created by Otto Linne
between 1923 and 1925.
Billwerder Ausschlag
Billwerder Ausschlag is a river island in the Elbe
belonging to Billwerder Island. The name “Ausschlag”
refers to its position outside the areas
protected by dykes. This district became part of
Rothenburgsort in 1970. It covers an area of 4.5
km² and stretches for 3.1 km from east to west.
Existing use study
hamburg urban development forum 1993
Master Plan HafenCity East
March 2011
15

“It could be that intermediate spaces,
disjunctions, confusion and jagged edges should not be swept aside. Perhaps we
must instead see them as hidden chances to revitalize and re-invent this piece of
urban no man’s land.”
Bertel Kahlet Bruun, landscape architect, Hamburg
“The mouth of the Bille is a non-place! Why? – after all, it seems to have a Mediter-
ranean character, or why else do a ristorante, pizzeria and trattoria survive here … and
that in the open air, too,
Is that a contradiction? Everyone wants Mediterranean style! Or do a lot a people mean
despite noise, dust and dirt.
something else by Mediterranean?
I think this place is exciting, a real challenge for a city that is proud of its greenery and
wants to be a metropolis at the same time!”
Hanns-Jürgen Redeker, Bundesverband Garten-, Landschafts- und Sportplatzbau e.V., Hamburg (Federal association for creators
of gardens, landscapes and outdoor sports facilities)

Cleared piggyback rail station
(Huckepackbahnhof) at Billhorner Brückenstraße
17

4.2 Traffic Flows and Structures
Road traffic
Four-lane thoroughfares intersect in the review area and degrade the south east entrance to the city by
making it one of Hamburg’s biggest traffic junctions. Travelling south, two Federal trunk roads, the B4
(Amsinckstraße) and the B75 (Heidenkampsweg) merge here into the Billhorner Brückenstrasse which
then crosses the Elbe.
The daily volume of traffic on these roads is: Amsinckstraße 62,000 vehicles/24 hrs, Heidenkampsweg
57,000 veh./24 hrs, Billhorner Brückenstrasse/Neue Elbbrücken 100,000 veh./24 hrs (numbers at:
27.1.2009, Ministry of Urban Development and the Environment, traffic figures)
Rail traffic
From east to west and from north to south main-line trains cross the area around the mouth of the Bille
on elevated tracks.
In Hammerbrook and Rothenburgsort there are two central stops for the local S-train service in the immediate
vicinity of the review area. Every ten minutes S21 trains to Bergedorf/Aumühle and S3 trains to
Neugraben leave Hamburg main station heading for a stop at one of these stations.
The S3 is elevated (about 20m high) and passes directly over the mouth of the Bille area before crossing
the Elbe. Starting from Hamburg main station the ICE route to Berlin passes between the wholesale
market and Hammerbrook and traverses the centre of Rothenburgsort parallel with the S-train lines.
There is a train once an hour and the trip to Berlin main station takes an hour and a half.
18

Trafficplan
Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg, 2008
19

4.3 Water bodies
The Elbe
The Elbe, whose source is in the Krkoknose Mountains of the Czech Republic, flows through Germany on
its way to the North Sea and a central section of the river flows through Hamburg. It is Hamburg’s major
transport waterway, bringing 140.4m tonnes of cargo to or from Hamburg port every year.
The Elbe is 1,091.5 km long, its first 364 km are in the Czech Republic and 727 are in Germany, where it
flows through major cities such as Dresden, Magdeburg and Hamburg.
The Bille
The Bille flows into the Elbe from the north-east, having travelled 65 km from its source near Trittau,
east of Hahnheide nature reserve. The first 42 km flow through Schleswig-Holstein, the remaining 23 km
through Hamburg.
Approaching from the east, the Bille snakes between Hammerbrook and Rothenburgsort, through
Brandshofer lock into Oberhafen and from thence into the Elbe.
Although some stretches are used for industrial purposes, the Bille is mainly the domain of pleasure
boats which either travel upstream to the north-east or use the lock to enter the Elbe.
The area around the Bille varies a great deal, depending on whether it is being used for industry or
private purposes. Industrial buildings, power stations, waste incineration plants and a container rail
station stand in contrast to weekend homes and allotments.
Two of east Hamburg’s nature reserves are on the banks of the Bille, low-lying Boberger Niederung and
Billetal valley. Features of Boberger Niederung, in the Hamburg district of Bergedorf, are moors and
bogs, fen woodland, damp meadows, sand dunes and heath.
20

“By the Alster, by
the Elbe, by the Bill,
everyone can do just
whatever he will.
That is the refrain of a Low German folk song from
Hamburg.
The rhyme contains two core messages:
Hamburg lies on three rivers! The third, the Bille,
is barely recognizable as a river, at least not in the
review area.
In the past, people did do whatever they wanted
with and around the Bille, most alterations being
dictated by the demands of trade and industry.
Towards the objective of re-casting the Bille as being, as it were, part of a “Gateway to the City” the following impressions
need to be countered:
• The natural scenery of the Bille is no longer recognizable. But it still, as in the past, flows
through Hammerbrook (brook is a Low German word for the low-lying area surrounding
water), in front of the northern Horner Geest. The Bille is used mostly for transportation or for
supplying trade and industrial sites from the water.
• Very few parts of its banks still offer public access and can be used for leisure pursuits.
The space is characterized and dominated by roads, most of them several lanes wide, traffic intersections
and the mainline railway.
Currently a green space corridor is being developed from the north along the side of the flood control basin. However
there is no bridge over the Bille apart from on the roads.
An important part of the riverbank where the flood control basin empties into the Bille is occupied by the recycling
centre and thus closed to the public. There is considerable noise nuisance.
Note:
The green finger along the flood control basin on the northern edge used to be a park; called the “Stoltenpark”, it
was laid out in 1920 by Hamburg’s director of gardens Otto Linne and until the night bombing raids in the 2nd World
War was a recreation spot for the residents of the housing areas then situated to the east.”
Dieter Schramm, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Gartenkunst und Landschaftskultur e.V. Hamburg / Schleswig-Holstein section (German society for gardens
and landscapes)

4.4 Green Areas/Spaces
The review area’s place in the landscape programme
Overall development planning for natural areas and landscape in the built and unbuilt areas of the Free
and Hanseatic City of Hamburg is set down in the landscape programme. In tandem with the revised
version of the comprehensive plan, it was adopted by the House of Burgesses in 1997 as a binding official
planning instrument. The legal foundation for the landscape programme is the Federal Nature Conservation
Act and the corresponding Hamburg State law (see section 4 HmbBNatSchAG on the Hamburg landscape
programme and sections 9, 10, 11 of the federal law BNatSchG). Apart from planning statements
concerning species and biotope conservation, natural systems and the visual quality of landscape, the
landscape programme is chiefly concerned with statements on the structures of the integrated open
space system in Hamburg. The integrated open space system called “Hamburg’s Green Network” consists
of landscape axes, green rings and green finger connections and, above all, a variety of green
areas, and has been singled out as a separate technical concept. Its overriding goal is to network parks,
playgrounds and sports grounds, allotments and cemeteries with wide green space corridors and narrow
green finger connections and in the process, apart from providing open space for the populace, to
contribute to organizing and structuring the city.
In the review area for the Otto Linne Award 2011 the landscape programme defines a landscape axis
along the Bille. This landscape axis, the Bille axis, includes the entire course of the Bille and the open
space on its banks from the eastern section of the Bille in Bergedorf up to its mouth. The objective of
the landscape axis is to network the open spaces and biotopes in an east-westerly direction and it is
thus the major organizing structural element in the large expanse of the industrial estates of Billbrook-
Hammerbrook-Billwerder Ausschlag-Rothenburgsort. The particularly important “intersections” here
are where the Bille axis crosses the green space corridors running north-south along the flood control
basin via Rothenburgsort to Entenwerder and through Billhafen and Oberhafen basins around the
mouth of the Bille; these form part of the Elbe landscape axis and facilitate integration with the western
section. In the context of the conversion areas in the eastern HafenCity and the Brandshof area up to Billebecken,
this section of the lower reach of the Bille is the backbone for fresh ideas on how to restructure
the townscape of this area.
22

“Grünes Netz Hamburg“
landscape programme Hamburg, June 2010
23

Since 1997 the landscape programme has designated a green strip on both banks of the Bille, either as
public park or as a garden with limited use. On the map a dotted strip denotes the edge of the landscape
axis and thus where it is separated from built-up space. This is to bring attention to the transitional
space between landscape axis and built-up area which demands especially high standards of
design in order to accomplish said transition. In the area around the north bank of the Bille basin (south
of Hammer Dyke/west of Billwerder Steindamm) plans are currently being drafted for the development
of a mixed use area with improved qualities of open space.
Moreover, in the review area the landscape programme describes the opening and completion of an
uninterrupted walkway along the flood control facility, in front of the wholesale market via Brandshofer
lock to Billhorner Brückenstrasse. The creation of this public pathway is seen as an urgent priority in order
to connect the inner city, which is expanding into the HafenCity, with Rothenburgsort and, progressing
east along the Elbe axis, with the important local recreation area of Vierlanden and Marschlanden.
In some sections plans are already being made to improve these pathways along the Elbe. Likewise the
area formerly occupied by the piggyback rail freight station Rothenburgsort is marked as a site still in
need of a clearly defined purpose. Here it is especially important to create a green finger connection
between the flood control basin and Rothenburgsort/Entenwerder/Elbe.
The area around the Bille mouth between the lock and where the Heidenkampsweg crosses over is
fringed by trees and bushes which are entered in the landscape programme as green space with limited
utility. In the area of the junction where the major roads Amsinckstraße/Heidenkampsweg diverge the
lay-out of the intersection has produced extensive areas of lawn which are in a reasonably good condition
but are very underutilized due to their location and the noise levels.
The trees standing parallel with the Amsinckstraße are laid out in highly structured manner, whereas
the trees growing around the Billhornerbrückenstrasse/Röhrdamm traffic junction seem to have been
planted without much planning. Renewal and redesign work on the Billhorner Brückenstrasse began
in 2010. Part of this task involves replanting and this will be done in accordance with the “Master Plan
Hamburg Elbe Bridges” adopted by the Senate.
24

“This is a place that has been completely
alienated and altered by typical
urban developments and infrastructure planning. The historic, natural structures
of the mouth of a river – where the Bille empties into the Elbe – are no
longer visible and barely imaginable. This place is a typical example of dynamic
change in a big city: a variety of traffic routes with differing importance in the
historic context overlap in this place, and while they form its characteristic face,
they also call out for change and development. The Italian restaurant is pioneering
the re-invention of this place; on the one hand it seems rather lost
between heavy traffic and industry, on the other hand, however, it signalizes
hope for new moves to reclaim this isolated area for the general public.
The place communicates an image of contradiction and challenge: creativity
and dynamism in the context of an ideas competition for the mouth of the Bille
can present the area from a new perspective, however it will never achieve ultimate
perfection but remain in a state of permanent evolution.
The potential of this place has yet to be invented.”
Heiner Baumgarten, managing director, internationale gartenschau hamburg 2013

Open space planning competition for a green
space corridor along the flood control basin in
Hamburg-Hammerbrook
(From the explanatory text of landscape architects
lohrer, hochrein, Munich)
In the summer of 2009 the Ministry of Urban
Development and the Environment initiated an
open space planning competition for a green
space corridor along the flood control basin,
which was won by landscape architects lohrer.
hochrein landschaftsarchitekte. This design is
currently being revised. The first section, between
Süderstrasse and Bullerdeich, is to be completed
by the final presentation year of Hamburg International
Building Exhibition in 2013. The building
start is scheduled for the spring of 2011. The
design is derived from the following planning
concepts:
The new park by the basin is to act as an overarching
link between Alster and Elbe, while at
the same time spurring developments that will
help local residents identify with the area.
Sequence of spaces
The backbone of the park is an extensive, treelined
boulevard, running like a transparent
green curtain parallel with the basin. This provides
forecourts to the houseboat jetties. The in-
26
Winner open space planning competition
“Grünzug am Hochwasserbassin“ 2009

terplay of light and shade, the sparkle of the water and the greenery overhead are the natural design
elements of a promenade that has pleasantly minimalist furniture.
Size matters: A broad axis has been chosen in order to communicate the expansiveness of a contiguous
park lay-out and to provide enough space for people to stroll or cycle through. From beneath this
green canopy there is a view to the west of urban waterfront areas and small canals. To the east, the
functional “inlays” of the green space corridor dock onto the boulevard. In the direction of the railway
embankment there are open spaces which can be used for a variety of activities and are framed by a
path that is slightly elevated above the ground This path offers a circular tour round the park. It will
especially please walkers and joggers.
Inlays
The various uses that already exist here and the proposed areas between boulevard and walkway are
set into the design of the park as windows of opportunity. The stable framework of built pathways, the
structuring qualities of vegetation and the sequence of places combine to allow for possible changes in
future, e.g. swapping one sporting use for another.
At its southern tip the outer edge will be a kind of urban stage created by the sculpturing and functional
modelling of the terrain, offering a far-ranging vista of the park. An expanse of lawn at the intersection
of the waters with a gradient oriented to catch the sun will create a sense of wide open space and offer
a lot of scope for extensive use of the park, such as sunbathing, picnicking or even open air concerts.
Copyright Floating Homes GmbH, www.floatinghomes.de
27

4.5 Current Plans/Prospects
Study on “Creative milieus and open spaces in Hamburg”
The purpose of this study commissioned by the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg’s Ministry of Urban
Development and the Environment is to add the dimension of urban space to the city’s economic prospects.
Part of this study included outline solutions and targeted ways in which the cultural and creative
economy could be advanced.
The urban space and socio-economic aspects of creative milieus in Hamburg were examined and some
examples presented in case studies. In order to implement the overriding objective, six fields of action
were defined: new land use policy, user-oriented infrastructure, dynamic development procedures,
legal framework, finance/grants and communication/cooperation.
Analysis of types of milieu and locations in the case of Brandshof
The industrial and commercial area between Bille and Billhorner Brückenstrasse, known as “Brandshof”
is labelled an area that is changing radically. It is home to inspirational projects such as Kubik 2009,
the existing atelier of Marc v.d. Broek und the Oelfrue gallery. The Brandshof Festiv, which is held once
a year during the summer months, has its roots in the area of the Elbe bridges and features temporary
happenings and events.
The narrow strip around Brandshofer Dyke is a collection of commercially used and empty buildings. The
former inland shipping headquarters, a centrally situated building complex, was bought by an investor
after subculture activities had put it on the map, and is now being steadily redeveloped as a residential
and cultural site.
28

Scenario: “Creative image building – Oberhafen area”
• Potential of Oberhafen set in the triangle formed by opposing forces of the inner city, HafenCity and
Brandshof
• Continuation of the “Art Mile” towards the south east, linking it to an urban space that is already
used by creative people
• The potential axis from west to east would run through: Oberhafen bridge/quarter – Oberhafen/
wholesale market – Bille mouth – Brandshofer Dyke
Scenario:
“Creative image building – Oberhafen area”
29

Scenario: “Office city 2.0.” - Hammerbrook
• Presents itself as an urban space that will be important for urban future development due to its
central location in the immediate neighbourhood of the inner city and HafenCity, its good traffic
infrastructure, its proximity to the Elbe bridges and the motorway and the large number of waterfront
sites
• The current monostructural pattern of use does not accord with what is needed of locations that are
potentially key to the city
• Potential of the location: good quality of life on the waterfront, central location for experimenting
with water sites, access via waterways, reasonably priced area with vacancies
The study identified the area around Brandshofer Dyke as currently being a satellite in the cultural and
creative heavens. But when HafenCity has been completed, its eastern edge will come very close to
Brandshofer lock, meaning there is a great deal of potential for this area.
30
Scenario: “Office city 2.0.” - Hammerbrook

Piggyback rail station (Huckepackbahnhof)
The roughly 10.6 ha site of the former piggyback freight station Rothenburgsort (south of Billstrasse, east
of the S-train station Rothenburgsort), where trucks used to be loaded onto trains up to the 1990s, is
designated for commercial use. In April 2002 the Senate Commission for Urban Development and the
Environment therefore decided to use the former rail facility for the “provision, securing and development
of commercial building sites”. In 2007 the site was declared no longer required for the operation
of rail services and it was bought by the city.
The “Master Plan Elbe Bridges” from 2007 describes development perspectives for the south east access
to Hamburg from Veddel up to Heidenkampsweg. Large parts of Rothenburgsort, including the piggyback
station, were included in the deliberations. In the area surrounding the old piggyback station it is
planned to designate a roughly 60 m wide strip east of the Billhorner Brückenstrasse as a core business
district (CBD). The development aim of designating this CBD is to make Billhorner Brückenstrasse an urban
road space with correspondingly high buildings put to appropriate uses. The intended height (six to
seven stories, a few ten-story buildings) is not suitable for industrial purposes.
Another aim of the master plans for the site of the old piggyback station is to lengthen the Alster-Elbe
green axis, by creating a green finger connection leading through a cutting in the railway embankment
in the south and, as an extension of Billhorner Mühlenweg, arching through to Entenwerder Elbe Park.
The printed matter “Master Plan Elbe Bridges” was presented to the Senate in November 2007 which
adopted the objectives described.
Following various preliminary talks between the department for urban and landscape planning at Hamburg-Mitte
borough council offices and the other specialist departments of government involved, and
when the survey of the site had been completed, the borough council commissioned a preliminary traffic
survey in October 2010. The competent department for urban and landscape planning will initiate the
procedures to arrive at a legally binding land use plan in May/June 2011.
31

The site of the piggyback rail station has just been cleared of interim uses (used car dealer). In the course
of 2011 what remains of the facility (rails, ties, points, gravel etc.) will be removed by the prior owner. At
the end of 2011/early 2012 work is due to start on unexploded ordnance (UXO) clearance and the cleaning
up of inherited pollution.
Costly traffic infrastructure measures will be needed to facilitate site development (including cutting
through the south rail line) so that it is predicted that the site will not be ready for construction work in
terms of planning permission and feasability until about 2016.
32

Master plan city gateway south east
The Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg has had
a master plan drafted for the development of the
area around the bridges across the Norderelbe
(north arm of Elbe). The objective of this urabn
development concept is to create a more structured
space out of the heterogeneous and fragmentary
environs of Billhorner Brückenstrasse
and give it an aspect that better reflects its role
as a major entry into Hamburg.
Chicago Square in HafenCity
The completion of Chicago Square in the eastern
part of HafenCity will create a new urban meeting
point. Similar to the more westerly squares
it will have various levels, and numerous cafés,
restaurants, bars and shops will move into the
neighbouring buildings.
Master Plan Elbbrücken
Urban planning concept, 31.10.2007
33

“… what remains!
It is spring. May, to be precise. The trees and bushes are still decked in fresh green.
Light green. Delicate. Not yet covered by the dust of the summer and exhaust fumes
from the four hundred thousand cars registered in Hamburg. A mighty backdrop of
noise mingles with the freshness of spring where the Bille meets the Elbe. And the ten,
eleven members of the Otto Linne advisory committee add their voices and motion to
the scene.
We look at this space. Try to understand it. Grasp its essence. We want to determine
whether it can be a suitable space for the Otto Linne competition 2011. Next to the carpark,
immediately alongside this unspectacular confluence of the Bille with Hamburg’s
larger, more important river, there is a pizzeria. With an energetic owner. With tables
and benches outside.
Is this place suitable only for diners with no wish to talk or communicate? Or is eating
here a pleasure only to those who appreciate the place, wish to concentrate on it and
make an effort to experience it more deliberately than all other alternatives in Hamburg?
Or is it just the Italian character of the place? Like the noise and hustle-bustle of
the Via Celio Vibenna next to the Colosseum in Rome? Where locals and tourists – who
are often crazy anyway, sit right next to the road, eating, drinking and shouting above
the noise.

At any rate this restaurant on the Bille is busy. In summer people sit outside. Or is it this
magic location, on the periphery of Hamburg. At the entrance to the city, where a tourist
has to decide in a split second whether to fork to the north or west of Hamburg.
This is one of the busiest intersections in the city. For decades people have been talking
about what a “welcome to Hamburg” should look like. Green surrrounds this junction, still
very close to the mouth of the Bille, Hamburg’s second biggest river, which comes into the
city from the east, creeps almost unnoticed through the industrial areas and then, with a
total lack of drama, disappears into the Elbe. The Bille simply vanishes in this rich, succulent
and lush expanse of green. For years some of Hamburg’s most special fans have been
hiding in their dachas on the verdant edge of the river. And some of the city’s vagrants
sometimes doze the summer away here. A countryside vacation. A holiday between roads,
commuter trains, freight tracks and industrial relics.
The decision to choose this place is clear-cut. Because the place is so difficult, being neither
one thing nor the other, being unable to decide wither it is the gateway to Hamburg,
a refuge for animals, plants and people who need little to be satisfied, it does in fact offer
a wealth of opportunity. This is something for young people, because we older ones always
know in advance why it won’t work here. The care-free attitude of the stranger is needed.
The creativity of the unyielding. The innovative will of people who have not yet given in to
routine. This is a place for competitions.”
Werner Steinke, Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg, Ministry of Urban Development and the Environment

5. Project Brief
There has been a deliberate decision to define no specific project brief for the Otto-Linne Award 2011.
Competitors’ task is to form their own opinions about the planning area described above. By closely
examining the place and how it is linked with the rest of the city, entrants are to identify for themselves
what the development of this place involves in terms of themes and challenges and present their plans
for answers to the problem. Contestants are called upon to develop creative concepts which will express
a convincing and forward-looking attitude in terms of urban landscape architecture.
The most important concern is to create an integrated overall strategy for the open space planning of
the review area of the south-east gateway to the city/Bille mouth in the Hamburg-Mitte borough of
the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg. From now on it is left to the contestants’ discretion whether
they examine a large, contiguous area or concentrate on a part area or place within an area, or on an
exemplary detail.
Thematic fields
All entrants are invited to discuss the challenges currently facing landscape architects and open space
planners as they relate to this site and to help develop solutions. The following themes seem unavoidable:
Spatial unit of the landscape; Bille mouth - Elbe
Many Hamburg residents are unfamiliar with the Bille as a spatial unit of the landscape. And yet it is an
important part of Hamburg’s watercourse topography, even if, in the process of industrialization, the
place where it empties into the Elbe has been remoulded and relocated so that it is now barely visible or
tangible - neither as a waterway, nor as a place for sports and leisure. Although it is still a strong presence
in the eastern district of Hamburg-Allermöhe, where many appreciate the attractive open space it
provides, the mouth of the river has been obscured by buildings, is overgrown, inaccessible and hidden.
Moreover, its relationship with or connection to the Elbe and other nearby waters (flood control basin)
seems unclear and unresolved. History and present significance, use and usefulness, environment and
accessibility, the aesthetics and atmosphere of this water (space): these are the keywords indicating
which aspects should be treated in greater depth.
36

Brandshofer Lock
private boat jetty
37

South-east entrance to the city
The review area embraces something that for many years has repeatedly been a discussion point in
Hamburg, the “south-east gateway to the city”. Everyone travelling the road over the Elbe bridges has
to arrive in this space – and is surprised by the infrastructure-heavy aura of the area, coming so soon
after the far more emotional act of crossing the Elbe. In the past many planners have produced their
concepts for turning this place into a worthy entrance into Hamburg. In the process, special attention
was concentrated on the great hopes for developing the former piggyback station, which, being a large,
continuous stretch of derelict space, has enormous potential for the redevelopment of Rothenburgsort.
The following keywords point to issues regarding development based on urban planning for the built
environment and open spaces: inner periphery and backyard view, concision in urban development and
imposing open space in the metropolis, fundamental rearrangement of space or incremental strategy,
townscape and architectural measures or distinctively planned open spaces?
Homogeneous or heterogeneous pattern of use
In the review area a variety of uses and “no-uses” clash with each other. It is a production site (National
Starch), a trading site (wholesale market and commerce), a place to live, eat out and offer services. A
neighbourhood of old warehouses, buildings worth preserving and worthless storage halls is now gaining
a reputation as an up and coming creative quarter. At present it seems underused, although is has
already been officially discovered and is part of a municipal strategy of developing quarters for creative
people in Hamburg. There are a few options on the market for using the water – from workplaces to
houses to sports and tourism. Asking what the location’s use profile is raises a core question: which uses
might – unlike today – be more compatible with each other in future? Is it possible to achieve a new
coexistence between hitherto incompatible uses and users? What principles would apply? Which use
would have priority? Can one use displace another? Are certain uses no longer appropriate these days?
What new uses are conceivable? What role is played by infrastructure which is put to varyingly intensive
use, or by air and noise pollution?
38

New ways to create urban infrastructures
Infrastructure has an enormous influence on the look of this area: roads, railtracks, waterways, bridges,
underpasses, public and private transport, freight and people. A derelict rail freight station. Infrastructure
creates links and also erects barriers in the urban space. And that is especially true of this place.
Infrastructure creates all kinds of tensions which become an issue – raising not only the question of how
traffic is organized but of its compatibility with other uses, of the aesthetics of the place, the quality of
the supply of utilities to the place and the entire city. What spatial qualities seem desirable: a place to
linger or simply a transit space? A link or a barrier?
No place/non-place
• The review area is full of contradictions and opposites. It lies between city districts, is known throughout
the city without possessing its own identity. It has excellent connections, but everyone just wants
to pass through quickly. From here attractive places like Billebecken, Entenwerder, Veddel and HafenCity
seem quick and easy to reach. Do places like these actually need their own identity? Who would think
that important? Can its identity not remain as this “no place/non-place” and work concentrate simply
on how it is perceived?
Framework conditions
Overall strategies
The place seems hard to grasp in its entirety. The complexes of themes listed above are suggestions to
help stimulate the finding of solutions tailored to the place and also general approaches to urban landscape
architecture: what open space, urban development, artistic plans and strategies can help to end
the lack of orientation found here or in similar places.
Review area
The stipulated review area is not delineated by a designated planning area. It should rather be understood
as a space for exploring the themes described. Therefore every entrant is free to choose the limits
and size of the space he/she addresses. This will be connected with the chosen focus theme and the
39

40
Mouth of the Bille

overriding overall strategy. It is possible, depending on where the thematic focus lies, to show how the
proposals fit into a larger or smaller spatial context. What is essential is that, in terms of scale and coverage,
entrants have a convincing reason for making their chosen spatial demarcation. Every entrant is
called upon to focus their themes and approaches to a fine point. It is certainly not required that every
draft should cover and process every possible aspect and theme. It is far more important to concentrate
on the idea and statement (and at the same time do justice to the complex situation) and to do everything
possible to make the entry lucid and powerfully convincing.
Interdisciplinary work
The participants are expected to produce entries which show, by the way the communication has been
prepared, perhaps even in the methodology, a clearly defined attitude to the perspective of the professional
landscape architect in relation to architecture and urban planning, traffic planning and art, communication
design and process management. To obtain checks and balances, participants are urgently
recommended to form interdisciplinary teams in which completely differing viewpoints and approaches
to action can be discussed and drafted across disciplinary borders. The jury would explicitly like to see
landscape architects heading teams which include, for example, town planners and architects, traffic
planners and sociologists, communication designers and artists.
Communicate imaginatively, stimulate discussion
In keeping with the way the project brief has been left open-ended, creative, unconventional, debateprovoking
forms of presentation should be developed in line with the theme(s) on which the entry has
focussed. It is hoped that the entrants will be stimulated into adding other forms of expression such as
comics, newspapers, films or art installations to the customary preparation of plans and models. Great
importance will be attached to a transparent, logical connection between form and content, i.e. the
medium should be chosen carefully for the specific theme. The entries must be capable of being presented
and judged at a jury meeting. All entrants must also provide a sheet with a summary of the core
contents of their work inasmuch as they use media other than drawings.
41

6. Otto Linne - One of Hamburg`s major landscape
gardeners and architects
42
Otto Linne
Otto Linne, born on 2 December 1869 in Bremen,
learned gardening at the Royal Gardens in Dresden.
After his military service in Rostock he attended
the Gardening Instruction and Research Institute
at the Game Park in Potsdam. Brief stints
followed as a gardening technician at the municipal
gardens departments in Berlin-Treptow,
Lübeck and Dresden-Blasewitz. In 1894 Linne
became chief municipal gardener in Magdeburg.
Five years later the 29-year-old was appointed
director of gardens in Erfurt. Here he completely
reformed the administration of gardens and created
numerous new facilities. After nine years,
he left for Essen, where he worked in the same
capacity. As the last large German city to do so,
Hamburg established its own gardens department
at the beginning of the year 1914. Up until
then, gardening and cemetery management had
been the responsibility of the engineering department
of the building authority. Otto Linne
was chosen as Hamburg’s first director of gardens.
Under Linne’s stewardship the plans for
Hammer Park were advanced and Hamburg Municipal
Park (Stadtpark) opened to the public.

Otto Linne’s work in Hamburg was interrupted by the outbreak of the First World War. After the end of
the war he dedicated himself to restructuring the parks and gardens in Hamburg. As a result of postwar
changes in society, the vast majority of people were unable to make much use of the existing parks and
green spaces. The poorer sections of the population in particular lacked both time and money to visit
the more distant parks. Thus Linne’s main priority was to create a dense network of numerous smaller
parks in direct proximity to the heavily populated housing areas where, instead of purely decorative
gardens, local residents would have space for recreation, games and sports. An office was set up to deal
with allotments; it was tasked with the provision of assistance to allotment gardeners, fair allocation
of the gardening land and the designation of additional sites. Under Linne’s management numerous
open air facilities, some of them quite considerable, were created in Hamburg between 1914 and 1929:
6 parks, including the transformation and replanting of Horner Park, Wehbers Park, Trauns gardens
Hayns gardens and Hammer park,
3 green space corridors
13 grass playgrounds and sun-bathing lawns
78 children’s playgrounds (including the first adventure playground in Jungiusstrasse)
42 sand pits and 15 paddling pools
9 gardens for senior citizens
38 sports grounds
91 permanent lease gardens
Otto Linne’s artistic design for the Municipal Park and his extension to Ohlsdorf cemetery were much
admired (1914-1920).
On 31.12.1933 Otto Linne retired and died three and a half years later in Klein Flottbek. Linne’s garden
design was typical of the “New Garden Architecture” of the opening decades of the 20th century. Otto
Linne was a pioneer of designing public gardens so as to develop and cleverly utilize existing open
spaces in ways that benefited the people while attaching great importance to leaving the elements of
the landscape intact.
43

7. Photo Documentation
44
1
2 3
5 4
Branshofer Deich

1 Brandshofer Lock bridge, view of the lock
2 Brandshofer Lock bridge,looking north 3 Private boat jetty
4 View of the Bille 5 View under the ariele elevated
45

46
13
6
7
Amsinckstraße and traffic junktion
Amsinckstraße/Billhorner Brückenstraße
10
9
8
11
12

6 View of Amsinckstraße bridge 7 Amsinckstraße bridge,lookib north
8 Traffic junktion
11 View of Billhorner
Brückenstraße bridge
9 Mercedes high-rise building
12 Piggyback rail station
(Huckepackbahnhof)
10 Billhorner Brückenstraße bridge
13 Amsinckstraße, looking west
47

48
16
19
Brandshofer Deich and
Billhorner Brückenstraße/Elbbrücken
15
17
14
18
20

14 former inland shipping headquarter 15 Brandshofer Deich 16 Brandshofer Deich
17 Construction material depot at Billhorner Brückenstraße
18 Billhorner Brückenstraße
19 View from the Elbbrücken 20 Billhorner Brückenstraße,
Holiday Inn
49

50
CitySouth in the city district of Hammerbrook
and the float control basin (Hochwasserbassin)
23
24
26
25
21
22

21 View of Bullerdeich bridge 22 View from Bullerdeich bridge
23 View of a boat jetty 24 View of “Berliner Bogen”
25 View from the bridge at Süderstraße 26 View over Mittelkanal looking
west
51

8. Procedure
1. Sponsors
igs internationale gartenschau hamburg 2013 gmbh
Pollhornbogen 18
21107 Hamburg
Contact: Dr. Hanna Bornholdt
Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg
Ministry of Urban Development and the Environment
Stadthausbrücke 8
20355 Hamburg
Contact: Werner Steinke
in agreement with the borough council Hamburg-Mitte
2. Procedural support
büro luchterhandt
stadtplanung.stadtforschung.stadtreisen
Wrangelstrasse 18
20253 Hamburg
Tel: +49 (0) 40/707080-70
Fax: +49 (0) 40/707080-780
buero@luchterhandt.de
www.luchterhandt.de
contact: Daniel Luchterhandt, Lena Schüttken
52

3. Occasion, purpose of the competition
The Otto Linne Award, sponsored by the internationale gartenschau hamburg 2013 gmbh and the Free
and Hanseatic City of Hamburg, will go to the winners of an international ideas competition dedicated
to urban landscape architecture. The competition is addressed to students and young graduates (up to
39) of landscape architecture. It is recommended that landscape architects head working groups composed
of town planners, architects, traffic planners and artists etc.
The award is named after Hamburg’s first director of gardens, Otto Linne (2 Dec. 1869 - 4 June 1937); a
man with progressive ideas, plans and designs for all aspects of municipal green space, he played a key
role in determining the pace and nature of developments in Hamburg.
In presenting this award, igs 2013 and the City of Hamburg wish to act in the spirit of Otto Linne by
promoting the development of students and young landscape architects and honouring excellent design,
scientific and artistic achievements in the field of landscape gardening and green space planning.
Moreover, it is hoped that the public perception of landscape gardening and architecture can
be heightened when good examples of the art are honoured in the shape of competition awards.
Municipal projects for open and green areas will be examined in the light of the “Hamburg Quality of
Open Space Campaign” and discussed in the public arena. Public awareness of Hamburg’s landscape
architecture will be promoted by publications in the national and international press.
Additionally, the large number of proposals submitted in a competition process facilitates the process
of optimizing objectives and concepts for the principal/borough in a way that would not be possible if
a single planner were commissioned with the task. This competition could make it easier and faster to
implement a good idea in a difficult place.
53

4. Type of procedure
The competition is being organized as a single-stage, international ideas competition for open space planning,
addressed to students and young landscape architecture graduates. The procedure is anonymous.
5. The task
The object of the competition is to create an integrated overall strategy for the open space planning of the
review area, i.e. the south-east gateway to the city/Bille mouth in the Hamburg-Mitte borough of the Free
and Hanseatic City of Hamburg. It is left to the contestants’ discretion whether they treat a large, contiguous
area, or concentrate on part of an area, a place within an area, or on an exemplary detail.
6. Eligibility
Students and young graduates from schools of landscape architecture are eligible to participate if, at the time
the competition is announced, they are no older than 39. Students and graduates from other fields will be
admitted only if they are part of a working group with landscape architects. Only students and graduates are
eligible whose 40th birthday falls after the date of the announcement of the competition (date of birth on
or after 1st March 1971).
The participants will be registered when they request the competition documents and when they submit
their entries. A record will be made of name, date of birth, address, telephone number, e-mail address
and current occupation plus proof of subjects studied and/or academic degree. In order to participate in the
competition contestants are required to register online at www.luchterhandt.de on or after 16 February 2011.
Together with confirmation of registration, each entrant will receive details of how to access and download
the competition documents. The competition brief and planning principles are available from 1st March 2011
and may be downloaded free of charge.
54

It is the responsibility of every entrant to check whether he/she is eligible. Contestants participate on
their own responsibility. The declaration of authorship supplied on submission of each competition entry
shall state first name and surname of everyone involved with the work. In the case of group works,
one member (with a landscape architecture background) is to be named group leader. A copy of the
student identification card or of the diploma/bachelor‘s or master‘s degree certificate or similar qualification
and a copy of the identity card/passport are to be included with the declaration of authorship on
submission of the competition entry. No contestant may submit more than one entry to the competition.
7. Eligible countries and competition language
The competition is open to every country in the world. Competition languages are German and English.
8. Jury
Members of the jury:
• Heiner Baumgarten, managing director, internationale gartenschau hamburg 2013 gmbh
• Hans Gabanyi, head of the regional and landscape planning department at the Ministry of Urban
Development and the Environment, Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg
• Bodo Hafke, head of the economics, construction and environment department, office for the
management of public space, Hamburg-Mitte borough council
• Henri Bavar, landscape architect, Karlsruhe (enquired)
• Christa Reicher, town planner, Aachen
• Mania Lohrengel, landscape architect, Berlin
• Birgiit Schmidt, University Weihenstephan-Triesdorf
55

Substitute members:
• Uli Hellweg, managing director of IBA Hamburg GmbH.
• Dr. Heike Tiedemann, regional and landscape planning department at the Ministry of Urban
Development and the Environment, Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg
• Gerd Baum, head of the urban green spaces department, office of urban and landscape planning,
Hamburg-Mitte borough council
• Johannes Böttger, jbbug büro urbane gestalt, Cologne (enquired)
• Maria T. Wagener, Regionalverband Ruhr, Essen
• Sophie Holz, landscape architect, Berlin
• Luca Gilic, landscape architect, Berlin
Guests
• N.n, a politician
• N.n, a politician
• N.n, a politician
• Horst von Bassewitz, arts forum Freie Akademie der Künste in Hamburg e.V, chairman of the
architecture section
• Kerstin Berg, BDLA – Hamburg section, Bielfeldt + Berg
• Jan Michael Runge, Hamburg Chamber of Architects
• Dieter Schramm, DGGL e.V., Meyer – Schramm - Bontrup
• Hanns-Jürgen Redeker, Bundesverband Garten-, Landschafts- und Sportplatzbau e.V., Hamburg
(Federal association for creators of gardens, landscapes and outdoor sports facilities)
• Dr. Lutz Spandau, Allianz environment trust
• Katharina von Ehren, German arboriculture association,
• Robert Schäfer, publishing house Callwey Verlag GmbH & Co. KG, gardens + landscaping editor
• Prof. Dr. Martin Prominski, Leibniz University Hannover, Institute for landscape architecture
• Dipl.-Ing. Martin Kohler, HafenCity University Hamburg, town planning
• Prof. Ariane Röntz, Dipl.-Ing., University of Kassel, FB 6–Architecture, town/landscape planning
56

• Bertel Kehlet Bruun, Breimann & Bruun Garten- und Landschaftsarchitekten MAA (landscape
gardeners and architects), Hamburg
• Peter Köster, landscape architect, arbos Landschaftsarchitekten GbR
• Hans Gabányi, Ministry of Urban Development and the Environment, Free and Hanseatic City
of Hamburg
9. Experts
• Heiner Baumgarten, managing director, internationale gartenschau hamburg 2013
• Hanna Bornholdt, internationale gartenschau hamburg 2013 gmbh
• Werner Steinke, regional and landscape planning department at the Ministry of Urban
Development and the Environment, Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg
• Sylvia Wiegers, borough council Hamburg-Mitte, economics, construction and environment
department, office for the management of public space
• Olaf Bahr, regional and landscape planning department, landscape and green space
planning section, at the Ministry of Urban Development and the Environment, Free and
Hanseatic City of Hamburg
The sponsors reserve the right to appoint further experts.
10. Preliminary examination
The preliminary examination will be conducted by büro luchterhandt, Hamburg, in cooperation with
igs 2013 gmbh, the Ministry of Urban Development and the Environment of the Free and Hanseatic City
of Hamburg and Hamburg-Mitte borough council. The sponsors reserve the right to appoint additional
experts and preliminary examiners.
57

11. Announcement of the competition result
All entrants and members of the jury will be notified of the results when the jury has completed its
deliberations. The sponsors will display to the public all competition entries, naming the author(s) of
each. The exact exhibition dates and sites will be announced in due time.
12. Documents
58
• Competition brief
• Aerial photo
• Plans showing historical development
• Digital municipal property maps DSGK 1:5000
• Excerpts from legally binding land use plan
• Excerpt from comprehensive (LDF) plan
• Basic cadastral info (dwg/dxf)
• Excerpt from the landscape programme
• Standing trees
• Map of sealed surfaces
• Map of traffic volumes
• Layout plan City South
• Competition “Green space corridor along the flood control basin” layout plan
• Master Plan Elbe Bridges Redevelopment (urban planning concept, building structures and
typology, uses, landscape concept)
• HafenCity layout plan
• Photos of the photographic documentation
13. To be provided by entrants
To be provided by entrants
• A free representation of the principal design idea
• Outline drawing clarifying how the project would be integrated into the urban setting and

open spaces with reference to the current and future situation, representation of the functional
spaces in the green corridor and how project connects with the surrounding urban and landscape
structures, proposal of a concept for future land-use
• Structural plan on a scale of 1:5,000 (including elevations)
• Design presented on a scale chosen by the entrant
• Explanation of the landscape architecture design idea through optional use of detail drawings,
sketches, perspectives or topographic sections
• Explanatory report with the reasoning behind the design concept
All plans and documents are to be submitted in digital form on a CD (plans as dxf files and tif format
without compression, CMYK, 150 dpi in the original size).
• Declaration of authorship (printed form)
• Copy of student identification card or diploma/bachelor’s or master’s degree certification or
similar qualification
• Copy of identity card/passport
• Declaration of commitment for the use of digital data
Formal specifications:
• At least 1 plan DIN A0 portrait format (118.9cm x 84.1cm) rolled up; max. 3 plans DIN A0 portrait
format (presentation plans)
• Explanatory report (max. 2 DIN A4 pages),
• One set of preliminary examination plans (may be submitted folded),
• CD with digital version of the complete work (dwg/dxf files, tif format im CMYK mode, explanatory
report in pdf format)
The use of presentation media (videos, artworks, photos, other objects, digital media etc.) is explicitly
welcomed and permitted for the judging process, inasmuch as they do not occupy more than 3 m²
(equivalent to 3 DIN A0 sheets) of wall or floor space. Films may not run for longer than 3 minutes. No
more than one screen/projector may be used for each entry.
59

14. Assessment criteria
60
• Originality of the design idea
• Artistic design and spatial quality
• Landscape architecture quality
• Procedural quality
• Innovative content
• Originality of the presentation
• Interdisciplinary quality
• Have current issues regarding a forward-looking landscape and open space planning process
been identified and addressed?
• Were new methods/approaches developed in order to supply answers to the challenges?
• Were new media used? Which contemporary media appear to offer suitable ways of
communicating to a range of actors the kind of landscape architecture that is appropriate to
our times?
Further criteria:
• Development of an overall strategy/ quality of the strategy/ future viability of the strategy
• Treatment of/highlighting the landscape space at the mouth of the Bille
• Integration/emphasizing the city entry/traffic junction in the south east
• New infrastructure concepts
• Treatment of contradictions and opposites at this no place/non-place

15. Prize and purchase money
Total available prize money for the competition is 12,000 EUR (net).
1st prize 5,000.00 euros
2nd prize 3,000.00 euros
3rd prize 2,000.00 euros
4th prize 1,200.00 euros
5th prize 800.00 euros
The jury may unanimously decide to allocate the prize money in different manner.
16. Further queries and colloquium
Queries must be addressed in writing to büro luchterhandt (buero@luchterhandt.de) no later than 13
April 2011. Answers will be given at the queries colloquium to be held on 28 April 2011. The minutes of
the queries colloquium will become part of the competition brief and be sent to all entrants.
17. Identifying the works
Competition entries are to be submitted anonymously. Plans and all other documents will be marked
with a six-figure code number in the top right-hand corner, any objects submitted will also be marked
with the code in clearly visible manner (inside a frame of no more than 6 cm wide by 2 cm high). The
code number must also be marked on the CD. The declaration of authorship and proofs of eligibility are
to be submitted in a separate, closed, non see-through envelope marked with the code number.
61

18. Deadline for submission
Works clearly marked “Otto Linne Award” may be delivered personally to the offices of büro luchterhandt,
Wrangelstraße 18, 20253 Hamburg. Deadline for submission is 8 Sep. 2011. Work submitted by
post or by any other carrier shall be deemed to have met the deadline if the date stamp shows the date
indicated above. If the mailed item does not have a date stamp, then proof of delivery shall be provided
by means of an appropriate postal receipt.
19. Invoice address for prize money and fees
igs internationale gartenschau hamburg 2013 gmbh, Pollhornbogen 18, 21107 Hamburg
Invoices made out to the above named recipient are to be sent to büro luchterhandt. When the invoice
has been checked this competition support office will forward it to igs 2013 gmbh.
20. Copyright
All works distinguished with prizes and purchases shall become property of the sponsors. The designers
of the drafts shall retain the copyright and the right to publish the designs. The sponsors are entitled
to use, for the envisaged purpose, the competition works submitted by the designers who will be asked
to undertake further planning work. The designers and their legal successors shall be obliged to permit
deviations from their competition works. Section 14 of the 2nd Law on Copyrights and Related Industrial
Property Rights (German copyright law) of 9 Sep.1965 (Federal Gazette I p.1273) shall remain unaffected.
Prior to any substantial alteration in the execution of the work, the designers are to be consulted, inasmuch
as such is reasonable. Suggestions from the designers shall be taken into consideration unless
the sponsors are of the opinion that economic or functional concerns, which are to be communicated,
stand in the way of implementation.
Minor partial solutions belonging to any other work that is not specified for execution shall be considered
compensated and may be used by the sponsors. The sponsors shall have the right to publish first.
62

They shall be entitled to publish the entries submitted to the competition without any further remuneration.
The designers and their co-workers are to be named.
The sponsors shall be liable for damage to or loss of works submitted to the competition only if they
have acted with gross negligence.
21. Competition schedule
1st Feb. 2011 Registration starts
1st Mar. 2011 Planning principles and competition brief made available
1st Mar. 2011 Start of the competition
13 Apr. 2011 Deadline for queries
28 Apr. 2011 Colloquium on queries received
08 Sep. 2011 Submission of competition entries
20 Oct. 2011 Jury meets
02 Dec. 2011 Awards ceremony and exhibition start
63

Imprint
Editor
igs internationale gartenschau hamburg 2013 gmbh
Pollhornbogen 18 · 21107 Hamburg
www.igs-hamburg.de
Koordination: Dr. Hanna Bornholdt
Conception
büro luchterhandt
stadtplanung.stadtforschung.stadtreisen
Daniel Luchterhandt, Lena Schüttken
Wrangelstraße 18 · 20253 Hamburg
www.luchterhandt.de
Text
igs internationale gartenschau hamburg 2013 gmbh
Behörde für Stadtentwicklung und Umwelt
büro luchterhandt
Corporate Design
KAMEKO DESIGN GbR
Lokstedter Steindamm 31
22529 Hamburg
www.kameko.de
Translation
Angela Weckler
64

List of illustrations
Regional and landscape planning department at the Ministry of Urban Development and the Environment:
pages 19, 23, 26, 29, 30, 33, 42
Borough council Hamburg-Mitte: pages 2, 9, 11, 15, 19, 44, 46, 48, 50
HafenCity Hamburg GmbH: page 15
lohrer hochrein landschaftsarchitekten: page 26
Machleid + Partner: page 33
Floating Homes GmbH: page 27
Interessensgemeinschaft CitySüd: page 15
Study on “Creative milieus and open spaces in Hamburg”: pages 29, 30
büro luchterhandt: pages 2, 8, 17, 37, 40, 45, 47, 49, 51
65

igs internationale gartenschau hamburg 2013 gmbh
Pollhornbogen 18 · 21107 Hamburg
www.igs-hamburg.de