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Adrian Phiffer (RO)
Shirin Rohani Larijani (IR)
Talal Rahmeh (SY)
architect - urban planners
Europan 10 Nürnberg
winner
The starting point is simple: a strong urge to be medieval. Maybe because of the complexity and exhaustion of living in the contemporary metropolis. But the concept of the project “takes the best of this metropolis: the amnesia”.
“Things are clear in the middle of Tiefes Feld. Its scents and colours did not spark any nostalgia. These sentiments belong to the metropolitan man. Tiefes Feld made me think about survival.”
One road passes exactly through the centre of the lot and is enough to provide access to everything. As there is enough land to accommodate the programme horizontally, and still retain the agricultural land use, the proposal does not go high, does not use heavy machinery or highly-trained builders. The plots retain the long, narrow format of mediaeval strips.
Rejecting any kind of “design orgy“, the proposal provides a minimalist response to the gradual demand for extension.
This project is connected to the following themes
Mobility - Urban Generator
Here, the archetype of the corridor street serves as a generator of urban form, a backbone for development interwoven with the surrounding agricultural lands.
Housing - Typology
A radical typology arranged within a minimalist and sensitive urban plan. With this project, the team has developed a “minimalist” intervention in response to the growing demand for urban expansion: no heavy machinery or qualified builders will be needed to construct these dwellings.
Nature - Topography / ground
A regular plot grid unfolds from a single axis reconnecting the two ends of the site. This minimal organisation of the land becomes the foundational element in a horizontal urbanisation that reproduces the vernacular figure of a village street.