E13 Sites - St Pölten (AT)

St Pölten (AT), E13

Site Location St Pölten, Österreich
Category Urban - architectural
Site Family How to use new inputs to change urban space?

Commision after competition Urban project management role, further involvement in architectural follow-up procedures

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How can the site contribute to the adaptable city? 

The currently sleeping site with its high landscape quality, high connectivity and an overaged masterplan requires to be kissed awake by a new urban development plan to satisfy the city´s increasing demand of housing. The mutual interaction of adaptability will enrich the transformation in time phases: whereas the densely overgrown landscape will adapt to the growth of the city, new living concepts will adapt to the landscape and its historical context to create a new address of neighbourhood. New typologies, social diversity, a strategy of phasing in time and the site´s high connectivity (5min to central train station, 25min to Wien) strengthen the site´s potential in living quality. The double role of the railway -connector and barrier- has to be fully exploited to integrate and adapt the site to its surrounding neighbourhoods.