The results of the Hammerbrook-Hamm design studio will be exhibited at the ArchitekturSalon Hamburg from 11 April to 3 May 2025. The projects are looking for concepts, strategies and development potential for spaces alongside the Nordkanal-, Spalding- and Eiffestraße arterial road in the east of the city. Together with Hamburg Hafen City University and Leibnitz University Hanover, a total of 18 works dedicated to Hamburg’s Magistrale development were exhibited.
26 April 2024, a day on Hamburg’s M8 arterial road: first walking, waiting at traffic lights, anticipating the flow of traffic, including petrol stations, workshops and garages, curious about the Hindu temple (which is supposed to be here somewhere), hungry in search of a short break, looking for peace and quiet and finally ‘meditating’ apathetically in time with the interval of the windscreen wipers of the borrowed car. Hardly a break, perpetual traffic ranging from slow-moving to roaring, car parks, leftover spaces, niches, rubbish, dog poo, people hurrying around, exhaust fumes and the occasional idea of making something of the place after all. If there really was someone who wrote a book about the beauty of the big city – at this point it must be a lie. Or is it no longer a city? We are flirting with the monster.
High Streeets are the spatial backbone of the city and will be an important focus of Hamburg’s urban development in the coming decades. The new ‘Masterplan Magistralen 2040+’ defines twelve main transport axes that connect the centre with the periphery and the metropolitan region. This efficient transport infrastructure facilitates urban flows of movement and forms addresses for commercial space, office locations and logistics – no place for potential traffic calming. Nevertheless, people are increasingly living along the arterial roads. However, the enormous emissions of fine dust and noise and the blocking effect of the often multi-lane roads make a spatial qualification of the corridors along the arterial roads challenging.
The vernissage on 10 April 2025 is also the closing event of the MAGISTRALEN lecture series of the Fritz Schumacher Gesellschaft e.V. with talks by ort Scott and Haworth Tompkins from London.
Programme Vernissage
18:00 – Admission
18:30 – Welcome by Kristina Bacht (ArchitekturSalon Hamburg) | Introduction to the exhibition theme and the Masterplan Magistralen 2040+ by Tobias Goevert (Ministry of Urban Development and Housing, HafenCity University Hamburg)
18:40 – Short presentation of the students’ designs, moderated by Ulrike Bega (HafenCity University Hamburg), Prof Joachim Schultz-Granberg (Münster School of Architecture) and Prof Quednau and Jonas Trittmann (Leibniz University Hannover)
19:00 – Introduction to the MAGISTRALEN series by Prof Katja Pahl (Fritz Schumacher Gesellschaft e.V. Hamburg, Bremen University of Applied Sciences)
19:05 – Lecture by Fiona Scott, Gort Scott, London
19:35 – Lecture Hugo Braddick / Chris Fellner, Haworth Tompkins, London
20:05 – Final discussion
21:00 – Talks, snacks and drinks, tour of the exhibition
We would like to thank all participants of the course at the MSA in summer 2024: Andrea Aksentschuk, Martin Autermann, Leonie Brickmann, Manuel Diek, Mats Dreckman, Jan Helle, Luka Herfurth, Louis Humbek, Mohammad Ibrahim, Noah van Loon , Simon Kelbling, Hanna Klein, James Kluge, Niko Kneffel, Jonas Kohnen, Evelina Sartison, Stefani Schneider-Wagner, Joachim Schröder-Schlüter, Phillip Schreiber, Joel Sübai, Lara Springensguth, Elena von der Lieck, Elena Müller, Mattias Tebarz van Elst, Justin Tebarz van Elst, Rahel Tünte, Judith Vries, Anna Vorderbrüggen, Chengying Wang, Mailin Zebe
Exhibition concept MSA: Simon Kelbling, Prof. Joachim Schultz-Granberg
Visualisation: Matthias Franziskus Maria Tebarz van Elst
Concept and supervision of the seminar: Prof Joachim Schultz-Granberg, Hannah Dempwolff, Niklas Holzhauer
With the kind support of Pfleiderer and Hagemeister