Un-Break my Hardt

Team Point of View

The proposed urban spatial structure aims at providing the framework for a development process taking social, cultural, environmental and economic issues equally into account.
"Un-Break my Hardt" serves as a model for uniting disconnected areas of the Hardt district on many levels. In addition to the given urban spatial barriers and caesuras, use-related and socio-cultural divisions must also be overcome to transform the district into a multifaceted and interwoven whole promoting coexistence and exchange between generations and nations. For this purpose, four zones with different use priorities are derived from the existing structures: education, socio-cultural, commercial and administration. Strengthened and supplemented by new buildings each of them receives its own characteristic urban centre affiliated with specific uses that encourage social interaction and new sharing concepts and fill the urban space with life.
Pedestrian- and cycle-friendly promenades and paths interlink the centres and create sequences of diverse public spaces that facilitate synergies and exchange between the different uses. To reinforce cohesion a continuous ribbon structure is implemented that serves as street furniture to communicate and relax but also provides multifunctional services like Wi-Fi, open Internet and charging stations for e-mobility.

Jury Point of View

The project succeeds in providing hope for a comprehensive transformation of the problematic city district. It proposes a series of structural additions that transform the open urban landscape into more clearly readable building site squares. As a result, the existing spatial structure is given a stronger hierarchy. A correspondingly comprehensive transformation strategy is a conceptual as well as financial effort. Implementation requires a sensible examination of local and regional resources and actors, but also of small-spatial qualities already onsite.