urbanism

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: 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: 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 Ð 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: 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: 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

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.