Readymix

2003

The project is a strategy combining the aspects of time and space: an infrastructrural grid as also a system of open public spaces are catalysts for diverse user and development scenarios. The design sees the area as a continuous stretch of green, linking park and open country. The landscape is to be an integral element of the building concept.
Three different types of buildings take up traditional house forms, interweaving them to form a new pattern of urbanity designed to encourage more social contacts and overcome the fragmentation of life in suburbia. The subtle handling of the proportion of public to private use of outside space helps to respond to differing needs.

2004-2007

For the following revised urban planning the City of Halle required the omission of the elevated structures and variable community areas. The concept also fulfils the requirement for percentage distribution of the remaining residential types and a newly introduced multi-family building type together with the required share of public open space and circulation areas (max. 30% of the gross floor space) and accommodation of all required private parking spaces on the respective properties. An essential element of the concept proposed by the team remains the continuous landscaping between the Grünes Dreieck and Weinbergwiesen park areas. The open transition to Weinbergwiesen with the “Ovato lots” has the effect of a wide-meshed filter. In the central zone the open space with the “Ovato lots” extends to Scharnhorststraße. “Islands of development” with semidetached or row house types break up the homogeneous structure and interweave the green corridor with the marginal zones. To the north of Scharnhorststraße the flowing greenery transforms into a denser structure – with a clear demarcation to the central park – and the open space is characterised by a loose arrangement.
Subsequently a planning office was commissioned by the City of Halle to revise the plans for part of the site and in 2006 a local development plan was prepared.

2008-…

The site was subdivided into lots and offered for sale on the basis of the local development plan. Three different lot sizes of 440 m2, 550 m2 and 711 m2 were offered. There was considerable demand, in particular for “Ovato lots”. Unfortunately it has not been possible to implement the building typologies proposed by the prize winners for the different lot shapes.
The lots are being developed individually by the private owners, resulting in widely differing building types. The future will show whether the design components specified in the local development plan are strong enough to generate the strived for image of flowing open space between the park landscape of Grünes Dreieck and Weinbergwiesen.