Competition results in April 2021

Interested in the latest competition results in landscape architecture, but don’t have time to look at them properly? In the G+L competition overview, Heike Vossen regularly provides information on the most exciting competitions. Here are the competition results in April 2021.

All images: © fischer heumann

The Sieg design promises a lively town center – restructured, legible and barrier-free for pedestrians. The landscape architects differentiate between a “paved center” along Marktstraße and a “green center” on Babenhauser Straße, which is transformed into a green corridor. A series of squares links the two centers defined in this way. More space and new qualities for pedestrians will be created along Marktstrasse thanks to a reduced road width and rearranged car parking spaces. The new market square in front of the town hall acts as the southern prelude to the town center, with the square at the inn at the northern end. The paving, which is limited to the path area along the market street, also covers the course of the street in both squares and forms a spatial bracket. The green center runs through the village with a footpath and cycle path between two streams. The prelude to the south is the paved square with large seating rings. Seating steps, stepping stones and a pump provide access to the banks and water.

All pictures: © bbzl

In the 1970s, the Südpark was created in Kelsterbach, Hesse, from a former backfilled gravel pit. The aging park is now to be transformed into a sustainable city park. The competition is embedded in the overarching “Kelsterbach Climate Island” program. The winning design creates a clear spatial and pathway concept that links Südpark and Staudenweiher with each other and with the outside world. Play and activity areas are added to the sides of the pathways and combine a diverse, flexible range of spaces and activities in the respective areas. With minimal intervention, the planners have divided the previously undefined woodland structures into clear woodland clusters and clearings, thus emphasizing the characteristic topography. The five large clearings form independent spaces with different uses – the forest room, the blue clearing by the pond, the play clearing with sports facilities, the meadow clearing for sunbathing and the picnic clearing. A barrier-free circular path lines the perennial pond and links it to the outside. There are viewing windows at each of the entrances.

All images: © Franz Reschke Landschaftsarchitektur GmbH

The market square as a “tableau”: This is how the Sieg design envisages it and aims to highlight the central square in accordance with its intended function as a stage for urban life. A uniform granite paving carpet is to define the old town in future, varying only in format and laying direction. The center of the square stands out as an inlay – darker and in large-format paving, with a uniform circulation and distance to the adjacent facades. Two loose rows of trees and benches support the spatial setting of the tableau on the long sides. The long rows of benches can be used on both sides and flank without separating. The market square itself should remain as free of traffic as possible: A corridor is defined for deliveries and parking spaces are arranged in the southern market street. At the end of the square in the north, the design also prioritizes pedestrian use up to the adjacent river and dispenses with further parking spaces.

Further competition results will be published at the end of April.

Here you can find the competition results in March 2021.

Read more competition results in March 2021 here.