2nd prize in competition Georg-Stock-Platz, Kassel
Everything revolves around the new town square - in the true sense of the word. The new buildings of the Haus am Platz (residential building) and the Haus der Jugend (youth centre) complete the tree population worth preserving and flanking the square, thus creating a structurally and vegetatively defined neighbourhood square. In the western area of the square, the street profile of Kirchweg is removed and paved at the same level as the neighbourhood square. The perimeter development on Kirchweg thus becomes the western edge of the square.
A connecting path running north leads from the central neighbourhood square, past a green oasis of calm, the "small" Georg-Stock-Platz, directly to the balcony on the Drusel. Here, the very steep embankment areas of the tributary to the Fulda remain untouched. Instead, a "Drusel balcony" juts out over the watercourse, allowing an open, unobstructed and, above all, safe view of, over and into the river.
Together with Stadt Land Fluss, office for urban development and urban planning, we are delighted to have won second place in the restricted interdisciplinary two-phase urban planning and open space planning competition.