E9_jury's report

JURY´S REPORT
european urbanity - sustainable city and new urban spaces
EUROPAN 9
SPREMBERG
strasse area is discussed with some controversy and is found to be overexaggerated.
The jury assessed the overall concept, which accentuates the general
context using clear interventions, as convincing.
JS 303 Moving closer (Auf Tuchfühlung)
This work proposes creating a new network of roads and pathways with
the aim of closely interlinking the railway station square with the historical
old town. This network of roads and pathways is not limited to the
area under consideration, but attempts to bring into being a wider context,
for example, in the form of a proposed bridge which crosses over
the lower-lying Bahnhofstrasse as part of the network of paths, thereby
linking the Stadtpark to the Georgenberg park. The threadlike structures
of the roads and pathways give the planning area a distinguished form,
even if the theme of cloth-making applied to finding a form for all of the
elements is a little overdone. The design of the square in front of the
railway station seems schematic, the proposed buildings constructed in
rows at the rear area of the former cloth factory is not convincing.
The decision to fit terraced seating into the existing topography of the
hillside situation in front of the open air-stage is seen as a possible
solution which, by enabling a new design of the fairground, could work
to give more emphasis to the green belt of the Spreeaue meadow landscape.
10 Opening the authors’ envelopes
The authors’ envelopes are opened and the names of the authors are
read out (see the list of prize winners and participants on pages 23 ff.)
11 The meeting of the jury is closed
Dr. Merk thanks the participants for their professional and dedicated
cooperation and hands over the chair to Mr. Kleine as the representative
of the competition organisers.
On behalf of the competition organisers, Mr. Kleine thanks all of those
who took part in the competition, in particular Dr. Merk, for her competent
chairing of the meeting and he congratulates all of the winners on
their success.
Berlin, 18 January 2008
Responsible for the report: Ulrike Poeverlein
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