Scenarios and Patterns for Regiobranding – Rural-urban Territories in the Metropolitan Region Hamburg

Rural Lübeck
Rediscovering the South of Lübeck
[MV, VZ]
Master plan of the place on
the Trave-Elbe-Channel
© Michél Viertel and Valentin
Zellmer for Regionales Bauen
und Siedlungsplanung LUH
The proposal examines criteria and framworks for a rivival of the South of Lübeck and its potential
new role as sustainability pole in the urban network of Lübeck, discovering a polycentric network
of places and the connecting axis of the Elbe–Lübeck Canal. In a zoom, a station along this axis
connecting Lübeck with the south, is at the same time a new common meeting point of three
settlement bodies, and also a possible new living and working place. The comprehensive programmatic
framework leads to exploring architectural visions of a new Rural Lübeck—envigorating
existing pioneering places and activities of “zero-kilometre” food production and of a rediscovery
of the countryside.
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