Redesigning Cologne-Chorweiler through a participatory process
In Cologne-Chorweiler, construction work will start this summer on three squares in the middle of the 1970s housing estate. The plans were drawn up together with the residents. The “warm-up phase” was organized by Urban Catalyst from Berlin, while lad+ from Hanover then worked on the redesign. In the June issue of Garten + Landschaft, we present the participatory process in detail. Here we provide a brief insight into the project and what the participatory process looked like.
With funding programs, good ideas and sensible cooperation partners, the concrete-heavy settlement of Cologne Chorweiler is to be redesigned. Chorweiler hit the headlines in the 1980s as a partially neglected area. Those responsible tapped into funding pots to patch things up here and there. Now they are tackling Liverpooler Platz, Pariser Platz and Lyoner Passage. The open spaces are to be redesigned by 2019.
Residents had their say in a participatory process in 2016. The planning office Urban Catalyt, in cooperation with landscape and traffic planners, is addressing the difficulty that the local population is made up of around 100 nations. Throughout the year, residents had the opportunity to take part in discussions at ideas workshops. The landscape architecture firm lad+ from Hanover accompanied the process and subsequently took over the planning.
The full article is published in Garten+Landschaft 06/2018.
Visualizations: Client: City of Cologne, Urban Planning Office; funding body: Federal Ministry of the Interior, Building and Community as part of the federal program National Urban Development Projects; designers: arge Chorweiler lad+, yellow z and BPR. Visualizations Adrian Calitz.
Pictures: URBAN CATALYST GmbH
