projects

Type: public space Scope: competition entry Location: Mittelrheintal Client: Zweckverband Welterbe Oberes Mittelrheintal Collaborator: atelier le balto, Marie Chartron Team: Stefan Werrer, Veronique Faucheur, Marc Pouzol, Marie Chartron Cost: EUR 150,000 Period: November 2009 Status: finished

>>> competition results

Type: Kindergarden Scope: Competition Entry Location: Metzingen/D Client: Stadt Metzingen Collaborator: metris architekten Team: Stefan Werrer, Thorsten Erl, Andreas Bartels, Lars Otte program: kindergarden and day-care center with 5 groups Size: 900 sqm Cost: EUR 1,3 Mio Period: Oct - Nov 2009 Status: finished

>>> competition results

Type: research publication Scope: research, editing and layout Location: Stuttgart/D Client: Städtebau-Institut Universität Stuttgart, IZKT, Stadt Stuttgart Team: Prof. Markus Allmann, Prof. Franz Pesch, Bettina Klinge, Stefan Werrer (Ed.) Period: Oct 2008 - August 2009 Cost: EUR 10,- Status: published

This publication documents the results of a research workshop with the french architects Frederic Druot and Anne Lacaton on the urban regeneration of the Fasanenhof neighbourhood at Universität Stuttgart.

With contributions from Kyra Bullert (Universität Stuttgart) , Frédéric Druot (FDA) and Heike Mössner (Stadt Stuttgart) and an introduction by the french consul general, Christian Dumon.

>>> order information

Type: research publication Scope: research, editing and layout Location: Copenhagen/DK Client: Städtebau-Institut Universität Stuttgart Team: Prof. Franz Pesch, Lynn Mayer, Stefan Werrer Period: Apr - August 2009 Cost: EUR 28,- Status: published

This Volume combines the contributions of the 7th edition of a series of courses which investigates into the phenomena of the european city or metropole. Based on the conviction that from the intensive investigation of one place a lot can be learned about the overall character and type of european cities.

>>> Städtebau-Institut

Type: public space Scope: biennale proposal Location: Bat-Yam North Shore Client: Bat-Yam international biennale of landscape urbanism Collaborator: atelier le balto Team: Stefan Werrer, Veronique Faucheur, Marc Pouzol, Gregoire Tourne, Holger Lindmüller Period: August 2009 Status: finished

[see stages] transforms the bank of the cliff into a social place to be, to see and to be seen. The [see stages] are establishing a link between the residential buildings and the beach. The [see stages]have both aspects of a garden and of a stage:
- Different plants which need or like salted sole will be cultivated; a pump can be installed in order to bring the water to the plants.
- The plantation will alternate with larger surfaces which can be used as stages by musicians, dancers, actors, etc. A pump can be installed in order to bring the water to the people (fountains, showers). The main actors of the [see stages] will be the water and the shade.

The construction-elements of the [see stages] will be made out of wood or other cheap material available.

The [see stages] will be in a number of three or more along the all bank. The number will depend on the capacity of the builders and on the financial possibilities. But at least three of them should be realised in order to make the idea understandable. Not all the bank should be occupied but only regularly placed areas.

On the areas in between the [see stages], the spontaneous vegetation will continue to grow; some help can be done (fertilizer).

The [see stages] are transforming the bank and the beach of the North Shore from a barrier into usable and shareable steps, ranks, grandstands an stages thus creating a urban scene for the people, for the view, for the water and for a new perspective on Bat-Yam.

Type: Urban Planning Strategy Scope: Competition Entry Location: Utrecht/NL Client: Europan 10 / Municipality Utrecht / Mitros housing corporation Collaborator: metris architekten Team: Stefan Werrer, Thorsten Erl, Andreas Bartels, Lars Otte Size: 345 housing units Period: March - Jun 2009 Status: finished

This is a conservative project!
It deals with enlarging the capacity of the existing rather than replacing it.
It is a social strategy for a new collective.

Type: Museum Scope: Competition Entry Location: Kassel/D Client: Stadt Kassel Collaborator: metris architekten Team: Stefan Werrer, Thorsten Erl, Andreas Bartels, Lars Otte program: renovation and extension of existing museum Size: 3.500 sqm Period: April - June 2009 Status: finished

For the renovation and extension of an existing museum building in Kassel we chose to add a volume on the roof and reorganize the internal routing of the exhibition spaces.

Two routes for visitors of the museum and guests for the rooftop terrace are combined into one new staircase that defines the spatial organisation of the new museum.

This attractive new element on the inside is complemented by the skin of the new rooftop extension that gives the museum a new presence in the public streetspace.

>>> Stadtmuseum Kassel

Type: Kindergarden Scope: Competition Entry Location: Philippsburg/D Client: Stadt Philippsburg Collaborator: metris architekten Team: Stefan Werrer, Thorsten Erl, Andreas Bartels, Lars Otte program: integrative Kindergarden with 9 groups Size: 1.600 sqm Cost: EUR 2,1 Mio Period: Oct - Nov 2008 Status: finished

>>> competition results

Type: research publication Scope: research, editing and layout Location: Madrid/E Client: Städtebau-Institut Universität Stuttgart Team: Prof. Franz Pesch, Lynn Mayer, Stefan Werrer Period: Apr - August 2008 Status:published

This Volume combines the contributions of the 6th edition of a series of courses which investigates into the phenomena of the european city or metropole. Based on the conviction that from the intensive investigation of one place a lot can be learned about the overall character and type of european cities.

>>> Städtebau-Institut

Type: Sustainable Student Housing Scope: Competition Entry Location: Zurich/CH Client: ETH Immobilien Collaborator: metris architekten Team: Stefan Werrer, Thorsten Erl, Andreas Bartels, Susan Eipper, Tim Namy, Marcelo Rivera Consultant: Heinz Richter, Basler + Partner, Helmut Zeitter, Ingenieurbüro Wagner Zeitter, Michael Glück, Glück Landschaftsarchitektur program: 392 student housing units + services Size: 16.800 sqm Cost: EUR 18,0 Mio Period: Jan - May 2008 Status: finished

The competition "student housing for the ETH Science City" was challenging participants to design a habitat for the international young researchers. Our project is situated at the edge of the Science City and thus forming a visual link between the city and the campus at Hönggerberg. With its iconic design it represents the ETH's ambition in the global competition of science cities

Derived from a standard perimeter block a sculptural volume is shaped by rotating and folding, resulting in an hybrid that continues the urban texture but also marks the entrance to the campus.

With its sculptural appearance and its height, Hochstapler has the potential to develop a strong new identity for the ETH.

Hochstapler offers a fantastic panoramic view of the entire city of Zurich and its lake. A garden in the courtyard forms the center for activities in summer. Common spaces and rooms are oriented towards this space

Hochstapler is literally a stack of wood. With its 10 storeys it is technically a highrise building and thus a prototyp for new innovative prefab wood strucutres that show the potential of this material

>>> ETHZ Science City

Type: conversion of a military area Scope: Competition Entry Location: Lingen an der Ems/D Client: Municipality Lingen Collaborator: metris architekten, Stötzer Neher Landschaftsarchitekten Team: Stefan Werrer, Thorsten Erl, Andreas Bartels, Silke Lindemann Consultant: Dr. Heide Schuster, wsgreentechnologies program: 12ha housing areas + 18ha landscape park Size: 30 ha Period: Feb - Jun 2008 Status: finished

Park der Konturen is a statement for an integrated urban and lanscape strategy. A new green loop connects the new Emsauenpark Reuschberge and the different housing areas. Orientation and Identification is provided by the significant design for this route. A strong and unique combination of urban and landscape elements with the new park at its center.

The Reuschberge neighbourhood is given more contour that stimulates activities and interest creates new events in public space and strengthens the outlines of the city.

low maintainenance meadows offer places for recreation and communication in a ntural environment. Here all generations can find areas to relax and play in different programatic areas. The high degree of freedom within the natural park asks for occupation.

The park is surrounded by four very specific housing areas that exploit the potential of the context. Thereby the overall urban structure remains fexible yet robust enough to adapt to future changes in program and parameters.

>>> competition results

Type: Urban Planning Strategy Scope: Competition Entry Location: Babenhausen/D Client: Europan 9 / Municipality Babenhausen Collaborator: metris architekten Team: Stefan Werrer, Thorsten Erl, Andreas Bartels Size: 70 ha Period: since Jun 2007 Status: Winner 1st prize, ongoing

grünkern is the heart of the southern urban area of Babenhausen. Three new quarters are oriented towards this leisure landscape with low-maintenance yet intensive use. The quarters are seen as opportunity areas. Design interventions aim at stimulating market driven development.

Primary measures include re-allotment as precondition for privatization as well as enhancement of public spaces for successful marketing.

grünkern is a designed open space situated in the middle of opportunity areas waiting to be occupied. The respective edges are formed by new housing typologies derived from the unique character of each quarter. The historic barracks are foreseen as a mixed-use area. By transforming the former parade ground into a market place, a new centre for this quarter is created. The residential area is an opportunity area for homeownership. Its southern part is designated to aviators who may park their little aircrafts right in front of their homes. The technical area will be transformed into a field for innovation attracting green industry startups.

The strategy of urban inversion is based on two radical premises: rigorous demolition of all existing structures within the limits of the future open space and therefore a complete unsealing of the surfaces on one hand, and maximum preservation of existing structures outside the perimeter with options for re-use, modernization or retrofitting on the other.

Thus, the strategy of urban inversion creates new public spaces with high spatial qualities to live and linger.

>>> website Europan 9

>>> website Babenhausen

Type: Experimental Housing Scope: Competition Entry, Project Development Location: Almere/NL Client: Municipality Almere Collaborator: MBA/S Team: Stefan Werrer, Matthias Bauer Consultant: Switbert Greiner, greinerengineering Size: 50 sqm Cost: EUR 120.000 Period: since May 2006 Status: Winner, Fonds BKVB Prize, ongoing

The competition "Simplicity" was initiated in 2006 by Comité de Fantasie and organized in association with CASla within the tradition of experimental housing areas in Almere which has resulted in the widely acclaimed locations De Fantasie and De Realiteit in Almere.

Situated in a unique location on a clearing in the woods the 12 chosen designs will form a new sustainable neighbourhood for individual housing desires and imagination.

With freedom from welfare supervision and only few commitments towards building regulations Simplicity aims to show the potentials of private initiatives on the housing market.

convertible house #1 is an adaptable housing unit. It is an experiment aiming at a simple yet flexible solution for the complexity of contemporary housing.

The constantly changing intensity of use in relation to season, weather and number of inhabitants and guests is facilitated by the variability of the inhabitable volume.

This variability is the result of the combination of a fixed and a mobile volume on rails. The fixed volume contains all necessary functions and installations whereas the mobile volume offers flexible space for circulation and living.. Kitchen, bathroom, heating, walking closet and beds are integrated into specially shaped cocoons.

There are 2 different radical modes with each its own delicate relation between inside and outside: the convertible house #1 oscillates between monolithic and wide-open.

In wide-open mode the convertible house #1 changes into a open floorplan with a collective patio. This patio offers open-air qualities and can be covered with parasols.

>>> website eenvoud

Type: Urban Waterfront Scope: Competition Entry Location: Porto/P Client: Porto Vivo, SRU Collaborator: metris architekten Team: Stefan Werrer, Thorsten Erl, Andreas Bartels Size: 54 ha Period: Sep - Oct 2007 Status: finished

From harbour to parlour

The geomorphology of the site named the city of Oporto. The city in turn gave its name to its best known trage good - the port wine (Vinho do Porto). With the wine emerged a symbiotic relation between the cities Villa Nova da Gaia and Oporto. Today Oporto represents a metroplitan region,the Grande Area Metropolitana do Porto (G.A.M.P.), which competes in the globalised contest of city regions.

In this regard the Douro Valley is considered as one space to be formulated. The design area contains three zones for interventions. The central zone covers the touristic sites between Alfandega and Ponte Dom Luis on both shores. The areas of Massarelos to the west and Fontainhas to the east are enhanced with small interventions on the scale of the neighbourhoods.

The main focus of creating a new Waterfront is put in the central zone with design proposals for new public spaces and urban program. The Salão, ital. Salone was always regarded as a reception or assembly room. It is a high quality public space furnished with a melange of old and new buildings and well connected with a new bridge to an urban loop for strolling.

>>> website Porto Vivo

Type: research publication Scope: research, editing and layout Location: London/UK Client: Städtebau-Institut Universität Stuttgart Team: Prof. Franz Pesch, Stefan Werrer, Jan Blanek Period: Apr - August 2007 Status:published

This Volume combines the contributions of the 5th edition of a series of courses which investigates into the phenomena of the european city or metropole. Based on the conviction that from the intensive investigation of one place a lot can be learned about the overall character and type of european cities.

>>> Städtebau-Institut

Type: Urban Design Scope: Competition Entry Location: Aulendorf/D Client: Municipality Aulendorf Collaborator: MBA/S, Rike Hannes, freiraumconcept Team: Stefan Werrer, Matthias Bauer, Rike Hannes, Christian Boepple Size: 5,3 ha Period: Dec 2006 - March 2007 Status:shortlisted

With the demolition of the large structured health institutes the development towards a living city gaines a momentum. Living at the edge between Park and city center becomes very attractive.

The construction of 200 housing units is an important contribution to stabilising the number of inhabitants. Thereby existing infrastructure is used to the full capacity and sustainability. Together with the rearrangement of the areas Schlossplatz, Hofgarten, Parkstrasse und Safranmoos this opens up a new perspective for Aulendorf.

A variation in typology, program, new development and retrofit are encouraging city life, social mix and integration. The new edge corresponds to the dense wood structure of the Park. The new development areas will shape the experience of a spacious Park as the central open space in the living city Aulendorf.

>>> Competition Results

Type: Open Space Strategy Scope: Competition Entry Location: Almere/NL Client: Ymere Housing Corporation Collaborator: MBA/S Team: Stefan Werrer, Matthias Bauer, Biljana Vojinovic, Bratislav Brankovic Size: 250.000 sqm Period: Apr - May 2005 Status: Ymere Award 2005, shortlisted

The competition brief challenged contestants to develop a vision regarding the arrangement of a (suburban) landscape in a new type of public green space: the Stadstuinen or Town Gardens in Almere Hout. The Stadstuinen accommodate some 100 archaeological sites. In this set-up, these sites are protected and assigned a (recreational) function.

Paradise included offers an open space concept that reflects on activities and events of the earlier periods. It connects the contemporary nature of the Stadstuinen with the historical landscape.

Paradise included offers a process of implementation with phases that can serve multiple purposes. To advertise, structure and complement the process of urban development the stadstuinen create a spatial framework within low-density areas. The combination of differentiated milieus with additional meaningful spaces has a high potential to establish addresses of neighbourhood identities. A touristic infrastructure with attractions both on the level of a large network and on the level of single highly interesting places is part of a physical framework for orientation and future development as an alternative to the system of traffic infrastructure.

Paradise included envisions a programming of the gardens that is reflecting the past as an inspiration for future activities and events. The idea of transscripts Æ dutch words in present perfect that describe and provoke activities. The transscripts appear imprinted on the inside and outside of the perimeter walls and appeal to the imagination of the users.

>>> Ymere competition 2005

Type: Research Project Scope: Grant Proposal Location: Beijing/PRC Client: Kulturstiftung des Bundes Team: Stefan Werrer Period: Sep 2004 Status: declined

Beijing Case was a Grant Program on Urban Development in Beijing.

Beijing Beginner Box is a research proposal that is inspired by the ever renewing potential of urban culture.

It focusses on newcomers and migrants and their way to find an identity stuck between their origins and the inconceivable urban entity of Beijing. Until now the migrant do not appear in the cityscape. But there are examples of emerging new elements in urban culture. Most of them are hardly detected at first sight and need special attention to be recognised at all. But they have the potential to form surprisingly complex strucutures. Beijing Beginner Box aims to stimulate particular cultural articulation in this hard proces of Starting and Learning.

>>> Beijing Case

Type: research publication Scope: research, editing and layout Location: London/UK Client: Universitaet Stuttgart Team: Prof. Franz Pesch, Stefan Werrer, Matthias Bauer Period: Apr 2003 - Feb 2004 Status:published

The research course at the Universitaet Stuttgart resulted in stimulating visualisations of analyses show various approaches and perspectives on a special area of the city, with the potential to be further developped into architecture, urbanism and landscape.

>>> Staedtebau-Institut

Type: Culture-based Planning Scope: Competition Entry Location: Dune and Flowerbulb region/NL Client: Geest en Grond Collaborator: Tina Andric Team: Stefan Werrer, Tina Andric Period: Jan 2004 Status:published

The international ideas competition geest en grond is an attempt to enhance spatial and physical planning in the Duin- en Bollenstreek (Dune and Flowerbulb Region). It was the first fase of a culture based planning project carried out by bureauvenhuizen.

252andScape investigates into the potential of development within the process of changing the open space character of the bollenstreek. andScape describes this category of open space that is in transition.

Bulb routes are introduced into the existing fabric of infrastructure. Visual coherence is shaping the geometry of the buildings. It is not landscape any more. Its character is oscillating. The new typology for bulb sheds represents urban strategy and visualizes the production processes inside.

>>> geest en grond

Type: webdesign Scope: Concept, Design Location: WWW Client: Rataplan Team: Stefan Werrer Cost: EUR 700 Period: Jun 2002 Status: realised

The Vienna based architecture office RATAPLAN wanted to give itself a playful internet site thet would reflect their approach on architecture. After a short briefing, this client and budget oriented architecture was transferred within one week into a monopoly based display refelcting the profile, conditions and framework of their work. The website got instant recognition among colleagues and clients and was published as a showcase of viennese spirit in local newspapers

>>> www.rataplan.at

Type: trade fair stand Scope: Concept, Design, Visualisations Location: Stuttgart/D Client: Wirtschaftsförderung Region Stuttgart Collaborator: kommunikationdesign: wolfgang breuninger Team: Stefan Werrer, Wolfgang Breuninger Cost: EUR 450.000 Period: Dec 2001 - April 2002 Status:realised

Based on a prefab aluminium building system by Burkhart Leitner the design for this stand creates differentiated zones for b2b contacts. Textile banners, mobile furniture and lighting sets support the appearance of the Stuttgart Region as an innovative and creative player within the european network of metropolitan regions.

Type: research publication Scope: research, final editing and Layout Location: Los Angeles, Berlin, Stuttgart Client: Städtebau Institut Universität Stuttgart Team: Prof. Franz Pesch, Matthias Bauer, Markus Randler, Stefan Werrer, Period: Jan - Feb 2002 Status:published

concept never ends is a thematic compilation of projects, ideas and essays produced between 1999 and 2001 during labs-studio, a educative research and design collaborative of students and teachers from sci-arc los angeles, tu berlin and si uni stuttgart. it set out to comparatively study and explore urban identity and branding phenomena in three seemingly incomparable cities: los angeles , berlin and stuttgart (labs). a selection of the resulting projects and essays is presented in a book with a CD-rom. it is highly recommended to explore both and get inspired.

>>> order concept never ends

Type: graduation project Scope: interactive CD-Rom Location: Stuttgart/D Client: Städtebau-Institut, Universität Stuttgart Team: Stefan Werrer Tutors: Prof. Franz Pesch / Matthias Bauer Period: Sep 2000 - April 2001 Status: Diplompreis 2001 Anerkennung, unlimited competition: 2nd Prize, archpluspreis 2002 Anerkennung

>>> watch full presentation

This project starts where theoretical books like "Netzstadt" and "Zwischenstadt" end.

711andScape creates an identity with and beyond the existing characteristics of the region south of Stuttgart. In the periphery of Stuttgart the existing structures densify. Core and surrounding merge into a new entity of urban functions.

AndScape describes a category of open space that is in transition. It is not landscape any more. Its character is oscillating. Rural and urban - ordinary and unique - ephemeral and enduring - place of production and recreation at the same time.

Type: design for a european embassy Scope: Competition Entry, T-shirt Location: Cairo, Washington, Beijing Client: Yourope* Team: Stefan Werrer, Joana Moura Cost: EUR 2.500 Period: Feb 2000 - Mar 2001 Status: Yourope Competition Award

I was I am I will be

european is an idea

the T-shirt defines your relation with this idea

Wearing this T-shirt makes you Ambassador of this idea

The embassy is where the T-shirt is

In Washington you can get your T-shirt at the next coffe-shop

In Cairo at the local market

In Beijing at your favourite shrine

europe - just wear it

>>> yourope* website

Type: cultural study of the perception of territory Scope: ongoing self-initiated study Team: Stefan Werrer Thanks various contributors Period: since 2001 Status: publication in progress

Before talking about europe you have to draw it!

This thought is the starting point for a further research or large scale mind mapping project on individual representations of the coastline of europe.

Type: Facade Retrofit Scope: Planning, Detailing and Construction Location: Überlingen/D Client: Georg Raidl Collaborator: Dirk Harder Team: Stefan Werrer, Dirk Harder Surface: 600 sqm Cost: EUR 11.000 Period: Aug - Sep 1995 Status: realised

The existing balloon frame building from the 1950s is located in a postwar refugee neighbourhood which has become more and more gentrified.

The new owner who inherited the house from an old lady wanted not only to upgrade the facade to modern standards but also to make a statement towards all the new villas around. We chose to give the house a new bright yellow wooden facade and a new balcony with lake view.

Type: experimental structure for light-space research Scope: Planning, Detailing and Construction Location: Stuttgart/D Client: Universität Stuttgart Team: Stefan Werrer, Sophia Ben Yedder, Hansjörg Broda, Peter v. Erdmannsdorff, Markus Gromann, Axel Häussler, Doris Halle, Alexander Saul, Andrea Schefenacker, Gregor Scholz, Boris Tschernach, German Wehle, Frank Wössner, Jochen Würth Size: 49 sqm Cost: EUR 65.000 Period: Jun - Sep 1995 Status: realised

Originating from the intention to experiment on the perception of space in relation to light, this temporary building was conceived and constructed as a laboratory.

With its scaffolding structure, removable wooden panels and a textile cover this cube of approximately 7x7x7m was an attraction during the summer of 1995 to both tourists and students. A documentary on the building process and research has been published on VHS.