E9_jury's report

JURY´S REPORT
european urbanity - sustainable city and new urban spaces
EUROPAN 9
Extensions in question – limiting
ROSTOCK Fischermen and tanners’ quarter
The Hanseatic town of Rostock intends to further stabilise and develop its town
centre as part of its overall urban planning. Here, residential utilisation also
plays a decisive role for new user groups and the stabilisation of or increase in
the number of inhabitants living in the town centre. With the competition, concepts
are to be worked out for the reuse of an extensive piece of land which,
although it is mainly wasteland, is nevertheless a historically important former
commercial and residential area directly at the edge of the old town which
should be developed into an urban, central and ecologically oriented residential
site. Below the old town, a new and smaller town district is to emerge, which
deliberately sets itself apart from the image of the old town. Here, an expedient
concentration of the buildings in favour of generous landscaped areas along
the Unterwarnow and along the town walls is desired.
The special situation of the area at the water should be emphasised and should
be something that can be clearly experienced in the open spaces.
Local mutations – infiltrating
BABENHAUSEN eastern entryway into the town
As the US Army has relinquished the site, the hundred-year old barracks are to
be converted back to civilian life. Because of its former function, the site is isolated
spatially from the rest of the town at the present time, whereby it dominates
the situation at the eastern edge of the town due to the size of its surface
area. Together with the commercial wasteland situated opposite it, the area is
to be integrated into the overall situation as part of a restructuring process and
should thus form the new entryway into the town from the east. A positive revaluation
and address formation should contribute to developing a residential and
commercial site, which evolves its own identity. In addition to its function as an
entryway into the town, in future, the area should reflect the town’s self-image
as a location for sustainable energy technologies and employment and confer
this to the whole town.
GYÓR Sziget
The main theme is taken up at three levels at this site: territorial, urban and
local. The district of Sziget (island) is one of the most sensitive zones in the
town. This district developed its specific character in the course of the 19th
century. Different nationalities and religious minorities were banished from the
town and formed the multi-cultural background against which a provincial
milieu was able to emerge. This was followed in the 20th century by the settlement
of industry, something which is on the retreat at the present time, as production
is being relocated to other areas. Although Sziget has become a district
with its own atmosphere, it is lacking in public places with urban functions and
a lively urban neighbourhood. The site proposed for a building project is located
in an industrial area that is in the middle of a breaking up.
STRAUBING Völkl premises
The manufacturer of sports products, Völkl, is not only an example of the development
of indigenous manual work into an innovative-productive industrial
operation. Völkl is also associated with sport, leisure and ‘youth culture’. On
the site of the former manufacturing plants which have mostly been standing
unoccupied since the relocation of operations to the edge of the town, a piece
of the town’s history is still present, and the revitalisation and restructuring of
this site within a super-ordinate urban construction concept is what is aimed
at. The transformation from an industrial to a services society and the demographic
perspectives of dwindling population figures of an ever older social
community presents challenges for the sustainable development of town centre
areas, especially here in this contact area between commercial and residential
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