E12 Winning Teams Portraits/Interviews

Mannheim's Connection

Mannheim (DE) – Winner

Team Representative: Ilaria Novielli (IT) – architect urbanist; Associate: Alessandro Delli Ponti (FR) – architect urbanist
Contributors: Camille Alwan (FR)  – architect urbanist; Marc Blume (DE)  – landscape architect;  Clelia Bartolomei (IT), Verdiana Spicciarelli (IT) – students in architecture

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A. Delli Ponti, I. Novielli, C. Alwan and M. Blume

"[…] Our systemic strategy for Mannheim’s B38 tries to tackle all these questions by proposing an elastic and flexible strategy rather than a monolithic urban project. This approach answers to issues coming both from the local as from the regional scale. Building an articulated civic space in which different urban rhythms find their elective places, as well as areas of contact and cooperation, was a main goal. B38 is thus conceived as a linear urban catalyzer on which all the scales of the metropolitan change meet. Multi-modality and long-term landscape visions are necessary to organize a strong palimpsest in which, through time, multiple differentiated decisions can be taken […]"