Today, the neighbourhood on Goethestraße shows that at the time it was not always immediately possible to balance the two ambitious guiding principles of park landscape and traffic. The wide street space of Goethestraße cuts through the park landscape and reduces the remaining green spaces of the settlement to pragmatic residual green between the buildings. Our contribution eliminates the street space of Goethestraße and connects the green spaces isolated on both sides to a continuous, diverse and eventful open space in the spirit of the originally intended park landscape. The new structures are composed into the landscape according to spatial considerations. They create an interplay of narrow and wide spaces.
Freely curved paths are passable for the city bus and the necessary supply and disposal traffic, as well as for cyclists, pedestrians or inline skaters. The required parking spaces are provided in a simple, linear underground garage below the former street space. The stairwells of the buildings serve as access for the residents.
In accordance with the intended model of a simple, affordable housing construction, the new buildings are planned serially. In addition, modular floor plan structures allow the buildings to be constructed in panels or larger modular units. Solid wood walls sequester carbon dioxide and promote a monolithic construction method that is renewable and recyclable in its cladding layers and also allows for simple and fault-tolerant construction in the essential connections.
For the new centre, we propose to combine the essential flows of our time in a flexible building oriented towards the future and to make them visible beyond the boundaries of the neighbourhood. The new structure is a multifunctional hub that can initially accommodate the required parking spaces, as well as social facilities or shopping. Above this, the levels have a modular structure and are already equipped with generous room heights, so that the areas initially used as parking spaces can be successively converted into commercial, office or residential areas, or even deconstructed if mobility continues to change as a result of sharing services and autonomous driving.