Stautner and Schäf win the Haldenwang town center redevelopment with bogevischs: The planners beat twelve other teams in the restricted competition. We present the design here.
Changes are imminent in the town center of Haldenwang. This includes the redevelopment of a plot of land in the middle of the village. In a competition, 13 architecture and landscape architecture firms have now submitted their designs for the site of the former Hirsch inn. The winners have now been chosen.
The center of the small village of Haldenwang in the Allgäu lies fallow. A new start is needed where the Hirsch inn once stood for years. The small community of just under 4,000 inhabitants decided to hold a competition. Building and landscape architects considered who could succeed the Hirschen. The winning design has now been selected. It proposes a new building with retail and residential units. It also outlines ideas on how the surrounding open spaces can be designed and connected to the village center
There used to be an inn in Haldenwang below the slightly elevated church overlooking the village. This is now to be replaced by a new building with a village store and apartments. In addition, the open spaces surrounding the new building need to be redesigned. The municipality of Haldenwang is also endeavoring to renovate the old village square. Like the church, it is slightly raised above the level of the streets running through the village. Thirteen architectural and landscape architecture firms have tackled these tasks. As part of a competition, they developed concepts for a new village center in Haldenwang. The task was to design a feasible building structure as well as urban development ideas for the design of the open spaces and streets in Haldenwang.
Planning for the redevelopment of the center of Haldenwang has been underway since 2014. In 2016, the municipality acquired the site of the former Hirsch inn. Over the years, several citizens’ workshops were then held. In these and many meetings of the Haldenwang municipal council, discussions were held on how to redesign the centrally located area. The designs to solve this task are now available. From 13 submissions, the jury selected the entry from the team of bogevischs buero architekten and Stautner und Schäf Landschaftsarchitekten as the winner. The results of the competition are on display in Haldenwang town hall in order to continue the process together with the public.
New cube in the center of Haldenwang
The winning design proposes a polygonal, compact building to replace the Gasthof Hirsch. It gives the center of Haldenwang a clear, new identity. This cube, constructed in reinforced concrete and wood, has a curtain-type, rear-ventilated wooden façade. The first floor of the new building houses a village store with a café. Parking facilities and a warehouse at ground level are also integrated. On its eastern side, the building is set back from the thoroughfare. This creates an elongated open space in front of the entrance to the future village store. It is equipped with benches, lights and handrails. In order to create sufficient quality of stay here, directly on the street, the speed of traffic is to be slowed down to 30 km/h. The upper floors of the new building will accommodate eleven apartments of different sizes. Each of them will have a recessed loggia. The large communal terrace complements the private outdoor areas on the north-west corner of the building. An underground parking garage in the basement provides parking spaces for the residents of the building.
While the jury saw room for improvement in the proposed design of the open spaces, they praised the proposed range of apartments. Both the appropriate number of units and the broad mix of apartments and their spatial quality are impressive. Five or six apartments are accessed from a central polygonal staircase. The structure of the floor plans is based on a service sanitary and access area by the staircase. This allows for attractive room layouts with recessed loggias to the south, west and east. The clear, robust spatial structure supports the interplay of different apartment layouts. The private living areas are complemented by a spacious communal terrace. This breaks up the tallest wall heights at the north-west corner of the building and opens up an unobstructed view to the west over Haldenwang. With this communal terrace, the rather small private loggias on the apartments are complemented by an attractive open space. The communal terrace makes a valuable contribution to social interaction in the middle of Haldenwang.
The competition jury considers the concept developed by bogevischs buero architekten and Stautner und Schäf Landschaftsarchitekten to be an attractive proposal for the urban redevelopment of Haldenwang. The proposed building offers an attractive location for the village store and features high-quality, contemporary apartments. However, the ideas for the design of the open spaces need to be revised. But they are due anyway. The municipality of Haldenwang is now entering into contract negotiations with the three winning teams in the competition. Only once a contract has been signed with a team will the preliminary design planning be developed further. However, it is already certain that the project will receive funding. Funds will come from the federal and state urban development program “Smaller towns and municipalities” and from the municipal housing development program of the Free State of Bavaria. The Office for Rural Development is also involved in the construction of the village store.
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