Kept Soil
Competition Team
Valentin Cordebar (FR), architect
Raphael Masson (FR), architect
Europan 12 Donauwörth
winner
Team point of view
The Alfred Delp barracks form a separate, landlocked and autonomous entity. The aim is to connect this area to the city and to generate a new urban fragment. Kept Soil answers this question of adaptability with a respectful, sensitive and ambitious approach to the site. The project establishes a series of reasoned initiatives to offer public spaces with high spatial qualities and to create an overall density appropriate to the district.
The analysis shows three prevalent existing building typologies. The approach is to convert each of them into a new residential unit: the former dormitories are rehabilitated to become townhouses, concrete garages retain their structure and become covered villages and metal garages are demolished to give way to villas on stilts.
