Rural

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. 272 D ESIGN

Concept of polycentric rural Lübeck © Michél Viertel and Valentin Zellmer for Regionales Bauen und Siedlungsplanung LUH Elbe–Lübeck Canal as new regional access axis; new housing quarter on the channel © Michél Viertel and Valentin Zellmer for Regionales Bauen und Siedlungsplanung LUH D ESIGN 273