RUNNER UP

URBAN SOFTWARE

DF936

Das Projekt reflektiert Wohnbau als Substanz für die Entwicklung eines urbanen Ambientes. Dabei wird die Substanz des Wohnens als Vielfalt von Typologien, Modelle der Partizipation, unterschiedliche Entwicklungs- und Finanzierungsformate und ein integratives Freiraumgerüst adressiert. Architektur wird als integrativer Bestandteil eine Programmierungsmatrix verstanden, die Wohnen und Urbanität versöhnen kann.

"Based on a comprehensive development matrix that works with parameters of participation, object-development, configuration of types, living models, and dynamics of growth.

Even more radical than Cluster Streetscape, the project does not deliver an architectural design but a manual, which suggests possible scenarios of development. Especially convincing is the commitment in the development of the housing programme, which reappears as a productive coexistence between different living-models. The mixing of these models provokes and enriches the rhythms of the living programme so that a new syntax for community life seems to be possible, emerging out of the living-programme itself. In the way how the project addresses the activation of in-between spaces through its construction of “diverse” neighbourhood, “urban software” demonstrates a contemporary response to the dominance of housing within recent urban developments – urbanity becomes an ingredient of the living programme. Facing a successful implementation process the proposed matrix is dependent from the exceptional commitment of the developers, which will have to face a highly complex implementation process beyond routine. Parts of the jury question if the dependency on complexification is the right response in this context." (excerpt & paraphrase of the jury minutes)