E12 Winning Teams Portraits/Interviews

Pattern for Progress

Kaiserslautern (DE) – Winner

Team Representative: Jeroen van Aerle (NL) – architect; Associate: Beerd Gieteling (NL), Philippe Rol (NL), Jeroen van Poppel (NL) – architects

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^{J. van Poppel, B. Gieteling, J. van Aerle and P. Rol}

"The question about what to do with an area with industrial heritage is not unique for the Pfaff-area, although the economic context and awareness of peoples' dynamics have drastically changed in the last decades. A focus on the area alone would never be future-proof. For us the question was not merely what to do with the Pfaff-area, but: how can we realize the rebirth of a characteristic area according to the values of the future but with the possibilities of today? Therefore our proposal is a growth model rather than a representation of a final situation."