E9_jury's report

JURY´S REPORT
european urbanity - sustainable city and new urban spaces
EUROPAN 9
areas. The ‘Schöneberg Loop’ is being planned in order to link the area up to
the urban context; the ‘loop’, a pedestrian and cycle path, should start from the
‘bottleneck’ at the Yorck bridges and lead via Südkreuz back to Gleisdreieck/
Potsdamer Platz/Tiergarten. The integration of public spaces including already
existing parks and sport facilities should thus join up the mosaic-like structure
of the quarter to a cohesive whole and connect this to the inner city.
DONAUWÖRTH Parkstadt
The town district of Parkstadt came into being from the end of the fifties up to
the seventies as a planned area of the town to expand the settlement capacities
of the town’s core located to the south-west. The area is located on the ridge of
the “Schellenberg” mountain, part of the foothills of the forested peaks of the
Franconian Jura, elevated approx. 100 metres above the actual town centre.
The town quarter, which was designed at the drawing-board, has shortcomings
in practice, above all with respect to public spaces. The open park structure
does not offer a central point of orientation and the street areas are lacking in
qualities that make people want to spend time there. One important project
over the coming years is therefore the redesign and revaluation of the central
area of Parkstadt, which already has important infrastructural facilities, but
nevertheless has been unable to develop a function as a centre. A point of identification
for the town district and an area where people can encounter one
another and spend time should be created which adequately serves the public
functions. The traffic access situation should be improved and the network of
pathways should be adapted. The aim is to adjust the area to the changing
needs and demands of the residents under the aspect of sustainability and to
further develop the public space as a communicative place for encounters.
SPREMBERG Georgenberg
The town of Spremberg has a diverse urban construction and topographic
appearance. The historical, compact town centre is surrounded by two arms of
the River Spree. The watercourses and the existing green belt separate the
parts of the town that emerged later than the town centre. In the course of
urban renewal, the interlacing of the town centre residential areas is afforded
great significance. The Stadtpark am Georgenberg (the town park) situated between
the railway station and the town centre must be developed in a modern
way, in line with its hinge effect. The Stadtpark/Georgenbergpark is a diffuse
place which consists of the park, its monuments, the Bismarck Tower, the
cemetery, the open-air stage, the fairground and the pond with swans. In the
previous urban development, neither the functional nor the spatial linking up of
the individual objects was given any notice. The task at hand is to bring the
area to life and to increase the qualities that encourage people to spend time
there by a better interlinking and revival of the places in it. By guiding the
pedestrian flow between the historical town centre and the railway station, the
Georgenberg is to be revaluated in its significance as an infrastructural access
element and make a contribution to the improved interlinking of the areas.
The extensive information round ended at 1.30 pm.
4 Discussion of basic principles
After the lunch break, the chairperson Dr. Merk suggested that super-ordinate
criteria for judging the competition entries at the different sites be defined in a
discussion of basic principles.
After detailed discussion, the jury decides, in addition to the questions concerning
the specific solution approaches for the task set at each site, to apply the
following criteria for judging the competition works:
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