Vorstadt und Hinterland

Lerchenfeld´s identity consists of this heterogeneity. Open space is not defined unto its limits: in an atmos-phere of post-industrial and post-agricultural abandon, vague pieces of land lie between denser configurations. They form a “Hinterland”, open towards landscape, providing a wider hori-zon, offering traces of former habitation as leads to spon-taneous, playful appropriation that can turn into habit.
If the nuclear family is the classic suburban condition, in Lerchenfeld a different situation emerges, where an experimentation with typologies foreign to suburbia is possible. A university, newly founded enterprises and commuting from and to other cities provoke an influx of difference. Garage and frontyard, porch and house, terrace and garden, a hole in the fence and the Hinterland behind it are the components that give form to each place. The Vorstadt is densified and its Hinterland is fortified.