E14 Winning Teams Portraits/Interviews

The Productive Heart of New Ulm

Neu-Ulm (DE) - Winner

Team Representative: Leonardo Zuccaro Marchi (IT) – architect
Associates: Piero Medici (IT), Alice Covatta (IT) – architects; Annalisa Romani (IT)– landscape architect
Contributors: Agnieszka Batkiewicz (PL) – architect; Christian Maijstre (NL), Virginia Santilli (IT), Yağız Söylev (TR), Xiaoyi Quin (CN) – architecture students

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A. Romani, P. Medici, Alice Covatta  & L. Zuccaro Marchi

The project proposes new connections, porosities, juxtapositions and overlapping functions transforming Vorfeld into a new attractive Heart of Neu Ulm, a central pole within the existing urban constellation. New connections are social, spatial, urban, cultural and environmental. In particular the new relations between learning, production and housing are the main feature of the project for the new identity of the Heart of Neu Ulm. We interpreted the Productive City as a shift from closed to connected, from central building to central open space, from monofunctional to mixed architecture.