The winning design for the competition for the IBA’27 project “Postareal Böblingen” was created by Gutiérrez from Madrid in collaboration with UTA Architekten und Stadtplaner from Stuttgart.
45 offices from Germany, Austria, Poland, Vietnam, the USA and the Netherlands submitted their designs to the competition for the IBA’27 project “Postareal Böblingen”. The winning design was submitted by Gutiérrez from Madrid in collaboration with UTA Architekten und Stadtplaner from Stuttgart. Find out more about the pioneering new urban building block here.
The Postareal Böblingen is currently one of 14 official projects taking place as part of IBA’27, which is being organized in the Stuttgart city region in 2027. In an open and international competition, the Böblingen building society was looking for ideas to upgrade the town center.
The winning design from Madrid and Stuttgart envisages three differently sized buildings in the post office area next to the Böblingen railroad station. All buildings are to be equipped with a communal roof garden. Towards the station, a 20-storey high point is also intended to set a significant accent in the area. The buildings are to be constructed largely in timber with concrete access cores. The planners plan to recycle the building material from the existing post office building and reuse certain components. New pathways flanked by trees and other greenery are intended to loosen up the area and make it more permeable. A spacious square with a grove and water features is also to be created towards the station.
The lower floors of the three new buildings will provide space for restaurants, retail, small production companies, co-working and possibly also a generation and education center. On the upper floors, apartments are to be created for people with a wide range of needs and living situations. Traditional multi-room apartments, cluster apartments, micro-apartments for temporary living and apartments for creative people where they can combine living and working are all possible options. Small-scale communal spaces such as work areas or libraries, supplemented by public uses, are to be distributed across all three new buildings.
The chairman of the jury and president of the Baden-Württemberg Chamber of Architects, Markus Müller, is very pleased with the winning submission: “The result presents a solution for the new post office site that demonstrates a high-quality density on the one hand and a good further development of the urban living space on the other. The design offers many flexible possibilities that can be built upon very well.”
Rainer Ganske, Managing Director of Böblinger Baugesellschaft, also expressed his satisfaction with the results of the competition. As desired, the winning design responds to the needs of the citizens in many places and shows numerous ideas for greening. A visually attractive high point completes the flexible usage concept.
Over the next few months, those responsible will develop the winning design for the Böblingen post office site into a development proposal. More than just one office is to be commissioned for the building planning. The clients want to achieve the most diverse architecture possible in the area. To this end, a dialog phase between the commissioned offices, Böblinger Baugesellschaft, an advisory committee and the public is planned. The concept should be completed in fall 2021 and construction of the district should start in 2023. It should then be completed by the end of 2026, just in time for the public presentation in the run-up to IBA’27.
In addition to the winning design from Madrid and Stuttgart, the jury also awarded prizes to other submissions. Second place went to hdg Architekten from Bad Kreuznach with Architekturbüro Podehl from Boppard and bauchplan Landschaftsarchitekten und Stadtplaner from Munich. Third prize went to the design by superwien architecture urbanism from Vienna. In addition to representatives of Böblinger Baugesellschaft, the city of Böblingen, the local council and IBA’27, the jury also included three citizen representatives.
“The citizens can look forward to a forward-looking new urban building block with a striking high point that will represent a strong overall enhancement at this location,“ said Böblingen’s Lord Mayor Dr. Stefan Belz. “I am delighted and would like to express my sincere thanks to the citizens’ representatives for their participation and for the valuable contributions they have made to the jury. This means that a project is also being created from the community.”
The International Building Exhibition 2027 in the Stuttgart city region aims to find answers to the question of how citizens want to live and work in the future. Ideas are to be found in dialog with residents in order to successfully master social, technological and ecological change. The exhibition aims to make the departure into the future visible and tangible through innovative construction projects in the region.
Are you also familiar with the competition to redesign a former industrial site in Backnang-West? The project is also part of IBA’27. The competition was won by Teleinternetcafe Architektur und Urbanismus from Berlin and Treibhaus Landschaftsarchitektur from Hamburg. Read more about the Backnang-West competition here.
More information on the International Building Exhibition 2027 in the Stuttgart city region can be found here.
