The design raises and responds to key questions facing contemporary urban society: social, cultural, and biological diversity; participatory urban development; urban ecology; supply and consumption; education; mobility; food and health; solidarity; integration; and civic engagement. These themes form the guiding principle of our design strategy.
To address them, we propose a deliberately diverse mix of housing typologies throughout the new neighborhood. The comb-like urban structure minimizes circulation areas while ensuring an equal quality of living for every resident. This allows people to remain within the neighborhood throughout different stages of life. For example, when children move out, a family of four can simply relocate to a smaller apartment in a neighboring building without leaving their community, while continuing to enjoy the same social networks and shared open spaces.
As part of this concept, we propose common land (Allmende) in the form of open community gardens, jointly designed and maintained by residents of the new neighborhood as well as people from Landshut and Auloh. These shared gardens demonstrate the growing importance of accessible green spaces and active urban gardening for city dwellers in the twenty-first century.
The site's distinctive character is defined by its highly valuable natural landscape. Nature becomes the organizing element, shaping both the internal structure of the neighborhood and its relationship with the surrounding landscape. The design aims to minimize intervention in this sensitive environment, calling for a careful and high-quality approach to neighborhood development.
The ecological strategy includes the naturalistic design of green spaces, a reduction of sealed traffic surfaces, and the minimization of underground construction through centralized neighborhood parking garages. These measures significantly reduce the project's environmental footprint.
The result is a green neighborhood with a distinct urban identity at the gateway to Landshut, seamlessly connected to the district of Auloh through a continuous network of landscaped green and open spaces.