View of the Citizens’ Square in the foreground and the Citizens’ Building in the center Site A New Green Center With a robust but flexible and sustainable urban development concept that suits to the scale of the city of Freiberg a New Center with many residential qualities and a strong identity is created. Clearly structured […]
View of the new residential area and the park from the south 1 Public Park and 3 Adaptable Green Residential Courtyards One of the most impressive features of the project was a view from a road west of the site into the mountainous Black Forest. To maintain that view and to compensate for the structural […]
View from the park to the back entrance of the community centre and the open passage to the inner courtyard Quietness and Liveliness We divide the site into two contrasting parks and propose a quiet and natural character with organic shapes for the western area and a lively and urban appearance with geometric shapes for […]
View of the “mill area” with the auditorium in the foreground Living on the Edge We propose three new apartment buildings on the edge of the area. This creates enough space for an attractive public space of high quality in the center of the city, along the uncovered Lengenbach creek and between the upper and […]
View of the Capitolplatz with the Viking goddess Freya riding a big cat as a Viking motif and red maple trees in the center Inner City Ring as a Historical Ring In order that the public space in the inner city of Schleswig can be perceived as a unified whole, we propose an “inner city […]
View of the new quarter from a north-westerly direction with the redesigned tram loop in the background Site 6 Blocks and 3 Open Spaces To create a new connecting center with a social cohesion in Schönau, we propose to network this new center as far as possible with the surrounding streets and paths. This creates […]
View of the new foyer and main entrance of the house of culture with a theatre from the northeast in the evening The Ring In order to better connect all parts of the existing building with each other, we propose a partial new building that complements the northwestern existing building in such a way that […]
View from the park forest to the south of the new center for mental health 3 Patient Gardens To create a new building for the Center for Mental Health in the city of Hamburg that allows patients to withdraw and relate to the outside, we propose a compact building with a protected and quiet inner […]
View of the new district from the northwest 3 Strips, 5 Blocks and 1 Park In order to respond to the urban context, to develop a robust concept that remains adaptable over time and contributes to the convergence of the old and new part of the city of Quakenbrück in Germany, we divided the area […]
View from southwest The new building is similar in form and orientation to the main existing building Extension The open spaces at the northern edge of the elementary school Stadtallendorf, with its lawns and the directly adjacent mixed forest, we consider as a great quality of the existing school grounds. In order to preserve these […]
New connections Urban integration Glade Square, playgrounds and parks 1 Square In the southeast, where the two new footpaths and cycle paths meet, we create the so-called “Glade Square” as an identity-forming public space and crystallization point of the urban life within the district. Around the square catering, supply and small-scale retail are provided. In […]
View of the new concert hall Tree Plaza In order to make the attractive trees of the area more tangible and to create a green, high-quality entrance into the site, we make the existing trees the main actors of the outdoor facilities and propose a “tree plaza”. It consists of small round, interconnected squares under […]
View from the south Connected campus To ensure that in the future all departments of the enlarged district office in the city of Görlitz, Germany are accessible “high and dry”, we propose an elongated administration building inside the block with three wings and three bridges. The result is a large, coherent administrative campus that is […]
View from one of the towers in Ivry-sur-Seine Section with the topography of the garden Materials and plants Title: Ivry Roof Garden Project: Roof garden on housing towers in Ivry-sur-Seine, Paris Date: Ongoing Type: Commissioned project Location: Ivry-sur-Seine, Paris Programme: Roof garden design Surface: 370 m² Status: Under construction Client: Sogeprom Team: Bernd Upmeyer, Valentina […]
Site Squares and gardens In order to bring life to the public spaces of the site, we placed the new building for the library and the citizens’ service, which we call “Bibü” (“BIbliothek” and “BÜrgerservice”), as a compact building in the centre of it. In this way interesting spaces and green areas around the building […]
View from the northeast Connecting function We think that not only the area for the new House of Youth should have a connecting function between the surrounding neighbourhoods, but the building and the open spaces too. Therefore, connecting paths should not only connect the south with the north and the west with the east, but […]
View from the northwest To join the three existing buildings of the Town Hall in Korbach in a weather-protected and barrier-free way, we propose a built connection that creates a square in the middle of the site. All other extensions are added to this connection as compact, flexible and efficient buildings, creating a small-scale ensemble […]
View from the Seine Design elements View from northeast Materials Site The square in the context of Ivry Title: Ivry Square Project: Public square in Ivry-sur-Seine, Paris Date: Ongoing Type: Commissioned project Location: Ivry-sur-Seine, Paris Programme: Square design for residential areas Surface: 2,552 m² Status: Under construction Clients: Sogeprom Team: Bernd Upmeyer, Efrain Perez del […]
View from the former secondary school to the new building with the new staff room for the teachers Bridge Building To unite the two existing separate schools into the so-called Bertha-von-Suttner School, BOARD proposed a 120m long and 1 floor high bridge building that connects both schools spatially and functionally. Thus, in the future, it […]
View of the new building and the new pedestrian bridges from Sjølystveien Connected To make the most of the potential of the competition area, we propose two cultural loops for pedestrians and bicycles that cross and connect the site: an Urban Cultural Loop connecting the site to the Vest-Agder Museum and the city centre and […]
Aerial view of the lagoon Lagoon To increase the attractiveness of the seaside resort of Breitenbrunn at the Lake Neusiedl in Austria, we propose to expand the existing identity-creating beach in such a way that it creates a lagoon. Around this lagoon all functions will be organized. Recognition With a lagoon the resort will exploit […]
With its sculptural form the new bridge will not only intertwine the city with the Garden Festival, but also mark the entrance of the city Reorganization The planned roundabout offers the possibility of carrying out further construction work: a pedestrian and bicycle bridge crossing the square and a parking garage below the square. To further […]
View from the city square in the evening For the new building of the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation, we propose a compact building with a clear presence that clearly organizes the surrounding urban spaces, creating a network of squares and parks. The spacious public entrance area, that extends vertically up to the top floor organizes the […]
View from the terrace of the “Vienna-room” to the centre of Vienna Pavilions in the Park The currently existing pavilions on Vienna’s Karlsplatz enrich and activate the square already. This quality we wanted to use and thus added additional pavilions. Accordingly, the extension of the Wien Museum that we proposed above-ground will consist of pavilions. […]
View from the Tähititornin Vuori Park Sequence of Public Spaces In order to improve the public spaces of the waterfront, we propose an “Art Market” as a 6m elevated open and flexible public deck on the museum site that offers views of the sea. This plinth will be connected by a pedestrian bridge to the […]
Connections to the existing public axis of the school School and Schoolyard Due to the current uninviting entrance situation – which is dubiously placed and lacks clarity – to the east-side of the vocational school in the German city of Mölln, we propose to create a new compact extension to the school, with a new […]
View of the square of the main resort centre with the ski slopes in the background Out of the Woods As a lot of trees need to be cut to create a first class sports and recreational ski complex with 27 ski slopes in the area of Klekovaca Mountain, we propose to use the removed […]
View of the wine market with the adjacent townhouses To create an attractive residential area, we propose to organize the competition area, given its topography, as a vineyard in fields and strips and to orient it in such a way that sunlight is used optimally. This way as many beautiful views on the valley as […]
View of the Monastery Wall at night This proposal reached the final round of the competition that chose the best 8 projects out of 126 entries. 3 prizes and 4 honorable mentions were given. 7 Public Spaces In order to improve Belgorod’s historical centre, we suggest to divide the site into smaller units, creating 6 […]
View of the new school building after the demolition of the existing school complex We proposed an L-shaped school building with various courtyards that blends perfectly into the surrounding landscape and architecture. Learning and playing landscape Site Outdoor Facilities After the demolition of the existing school, new outdoor facilities, with small agricultural fields in the […]
Interior view of the “Underground Campus” with one of the squares in the background To transform the Aalto University into a true meeting point of science, art, technology and business, we started the design of the new Central Campus with an analysis of the possible walkable connections between the different faculties. The results of this […]
We believe that the thirty-two meter deep footprint of the site given by the competition brief was too deep to create a true “Living Lab” for the new Helsinki Central Library as an open and transparent meeting place for the people of Helsinki. Therefore we cut the site in half in order to bring sufficient […]
To use the location and the context of this project for a new school building on the fringes of the city of Vienna in Austria in the best possible way, we proposed a building that consists of one main building facing the so-called “Maria-Trapp-Square” and two classroom wings penetrating a school garden. The school garden […]
The organizers of this competition asked in the brief what form an entrance to the Dutch city of s-Hertogenbosch should take: a building, a gate, an art project, an added function, or a place connected to the remains of the medieval fortifications of the city? We think that the entrance should include all these elements. […]
This proposal reached the so-called “Awards round” that chose the best 14 projects out of 242 entries. Since there is currently no financial ‘partner’ for a necessary public-private partnership to develop the ‘Badel Block’ in its entirety, this proposal suggests releasing the project from the pressure of finding the ‘one’ partner immediately, but instead focusing […]
One of the greatest development opportunities of the area of the Havenkwartier in Deventer lies in its abundance o attractive public spaces that may be used for all kind of initiatives and activities such as food markets, open air theatre-plays, or art exhibitions. In order to maintain that potential and quality this proposal suggests abandoning […]
In order to create an entirely transparent café building in one of the old bathhouses on the shores of Lake Zurich, all secondary rooms, such as the storage areas, toilets and staff facilities, were cast underground into the darkness. Removed from all visually disturbing boundaries, the ground floor opposite the darkness of the cellar provides […]
This design for the new Kaohsiung Maritime Cultural and Popular Music Center proposes to break down the spatial boundaries that disconnect the site from the rest of the city by creating a landscape that adapts flexibly to the different spatial demands. It does so through different height levels and diverse park areas that include green […]
This proposal for a new city of around 20.000 inhabitants is first of all based on the rich natural environment of the area within Orimattila. The future city, which might take the name Henna Hills, will adapt itself to the rich landscape of the area, its topography, its ridges and elevations, its brooks, ditches and […]
This design for the new Museum Complex for the National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design separates all the museum’s floor spaces, as described in the competition brief, into two entities: a plaza and a cube. The plaza integrates all the workshops and studios, all the vaults, the reception and dispatch areas, and the entire […]
The extension to the Federal High School in Seekirchen is divided into two functional levels: while the two upper floors contain the classrooms, the ground floor accommodates a small restaurant and a centered multifunctional hall with direct access to the surrounding garden. One of the main features of the new extension is its rear window […]
The new firestation is conceptualized as a publicly accessible roof garden that will be the fourth public area in Karlsruhe’s city park. The third element will be a newly designed allotment plan that will extend the existing Stadtpark and Ostauepark. But the main target for visitors of the park will be the iconic hose-drying tower […]
The building for the Architecture Foundation may be best described as a cultural framework that provides direct access to the public garden of the area of the Huerta de San Pablo through its inner void. The entire administrational division of the foundation has been added on top of this cultural framework. The cultural framework accommodates […]
This proposed strategy for block 11 of the Belvedere Masterplan in Maastricht includes three steps of action. The first step breaks up the U-shaped block into a free standing housing slab and a free standing Brikkengebouw to bring more light into both and produce an open, green, and public square in between. The second step […]
This design proposal for a new kindergarten located in the Citypark in Vienna is more a kinderpark than a kindergarten, as the shape of the actual kindergarten is first of all the result of the park design in which the building is just one of various park elements. The building itself is a simple two […]
The Eigerplatz in the city of Bern, as it exists today, can be described as a sequence of several triangulated square fragments that lack any kind of spatial coherence. But once you fill up the gaps between the different triangulated fragments with other small triangles, an urban tapestry can be created that has the power […]
The interior of the existing City Museum of the German city of Kassel can be described as a claustrophobic and spatial nightmare in many respects. The lack of a proper entrance area, an unsatisfying system of vertical communication, and tiny exhibition spaces are only a few elements of a long list of disfunctionalities. This design […]
This block for the city of Dallas is more landscape than building. It consists of 8 mountains and 7 valleys. To avoid the building becoming an isolated green island, several of the internal valley functions are brought to the outside and surround the entire building. Furthermore, those functions are connected to each other by a […]
The physical manifestation of this new multi-storey building for Benetton has been derived from the design envelope that was given for the site. In order to create a recognisable building with a clear sense of identity, the superposition of the floors, as instructed by the competition brief, has been manipulated in such a way that […]
This proposal, submitted for the new House of Arts and Culture in Beirut, tries to establish freedom in a lot of different ways: the freedom to cross the site and the building in all different directions and to integrate the building in the urban context; the freedom to interact for the different functional layers of […]
The proposed design for the new Bouwkunde Building consist in fact of 2 buildings or programmes in 1 building. To arrive at 2 buildings, the programme, as presented by the competition brief, has been split into 2 parts, into one tranquil programme and one noisy programme, one introverted and one extroverted, one hard and one […]
When it comes to sustainable urbanism, a lot of proposals have been made recently for the building of so-called “eco-cities” that produce their own energy from wind, solar, bio-fuel, or recycled waste, which is highly appreciated. But what often has been denied, is that such sources of energy, being integrated directly into cities, are highly […]
The design for the new building of the Estonian Academy of Arts is based on the visualization of the spatial program, as presented by the competition’s organizers. The visualization of the program was interpreted as a section of the building split in two parts by the public program. The public program contains all the auditoriums […]
In order to transform the existing rigid city centre of Espoo, with its modern architectural and urban appearance, into a pleasant place for living and working, a proposal was made to demolish all the existing buildings on the site and replace them with a compact, yet well-lit, new urban setting with a mix of functions. […]
One of the strictest rules of the competition to design a building of senior citizen residences in the Swiss mountain village of Ringgenberg, was the requirement that the inclination of the building’s roof had to be somewhere between 15° and 30°. This restriction was used to create a building that has not only an inclined […]
The main part of the Extension of Cheltenham Art Gallery and Museum will be the Temporary Exhibitions Gallery as a closed, but perforated box on the second floor and will be accessible through a six metre tall escalator from the ground floor. In that way the new Temporary Exhibitions Gallery will be connected directly to […]
Detached houses are usually considered as typologies in rural areas with village – like densities of around 500 people per square kilometre. Yet it is actually possible to arrange detached buildings in such a way that they create very urban densities up to 14.000 people per square kilometre, with footprints of no more than 8m […]
The new building for the Central Library Headquarters and Cultural Centre of Dun Laoghaire – Rathdown will be positioned between two plateaus of different heights, functioning as a public transition between both levels through a 5m high staircase, which cuts through the building. The building is a 110m long, 20m deep and 22m high slab, […]
The proposed building for the New Headquarter for Wexford County Council in Ireland will be a stage for its citizens. The core of the new building will be a 35m wide,10m deep and 4 floors high stage. The entire County Council is organized around that platform. Every visitor and every employee will be displayed whenever […]
The design for the “Bruderhausgelände”, a post-industrial area close to the city centre of Reutlingen in Germany transforms the whole lot into a public cultural park. The park is organised around several circular theatres. These theatres create access to the underground parking garage and integrate cultural programmes such as the new city hall and several […]
The proposed building for the new unified design institute HKDI in Hong Kong is placed in a network of footpaths. All footpaths come together at the main building entrance and continue through a huge central void in a piranesiesque way via footbridges, staircases and elevators up to the top floor. The ground floor and the […]
To create an interior one usually needs 4 walls and 1 roof. But when you create an interior space in the shape of a pyramid, you just need 3 walls – but no roof. That advantage was used for the entry to the design competition for a simple house in Almere. The building can be […]
The design of the Estonian National Museum (ENM) is part of the Estonia’s nation building process. The ENM collection is based on Folklore, which is of great importance in the history of Estonia. The museum is organised with two different principles in mind: the “wonder chamber” concept as the origin of all the museums, and […]
Paradise City is inverting the concept of the private-garden and the public-park: It provides an amazing visual experience for the people of Logroño – the public-garden (inspired by the master planned baroque garden) – and serves its inhabitants with 680 delightful private-parks. The rich tapestry is generated with only six typologies that have a specific […]