In Between the Lines / Zwischen den Zeilen

Team Point of View

We offer an innovative solution for retaining affordable workspace in the city by tying production space and a mixed-use community into masterplans that often drive them out. It starts with a SEED; a new flexible public space and focus on identity, it is developed by an INCUBATOR; a permanent semi-public building that hosts co-working spaces and leads to a GROWTH as mixed groups of producers, creatives and residents are building out the sites along the canal. Key is a prototype for a new typology that will integrate housing, ateliers and productive spaces into one building with a ‘creative yard’ as shared access and outdoor space. Wilhelmsburg can be a productive city quarter that ensures a long-term mix of uses and a diverse, integrated, community of different users.

Jury Point of View

The design offers an interesting interpretation of the master plan through defining the blocks in three different typologies. It convinces as a result of its clear arrangement of different uses, in a building development that is in part described with very finely granulation. The row structure, for direct coexistence of living and work situated in the North, has an interesting structural framework of protruding building structures on the canal, small tower blocks towards the interior street, and connective blocks. Variations were developed for it row by row. The jury awarded this row typology a high spatial quality and good chances of realisation.