Transforming mobility is a decisive step towards a more sustainable future. The ‘15-minute city’ calls for low-car life patterns and the upgrade of urban street spaces beyond their mere use as parking spaces for cars. Mobility hubs are the strategic typology. Concepts for exemplary areas are being developed in co-operation with the city of Münster. In collaboration with mobility planner Jeanette Klemmer, landscape architect Verena Butt and urban design, the integrated studio MOBILITY HUBS develops visions of inclusive mobility for all in Münster.
Teaching
High Streets
Important and at the same time challenging spatial resources are located along Hamburg’s major arterial roads. The south-west corridor Hammerbrook-Hamm is the area under consideration for Urban Design II.
Studio Archipelago
Öckerö is an island in the archipelago of the Swedish west coast. The area around the old harbour is largely sealed and deserted. A shipyard, fishing businesses, a library, a high school on an old sailing ship, the community centre and many other local stakeholders are situated here. Three futures for the conversion of this area are being conceived in collaboration with the local municipality.
Studio Countryside
Studio Countryside is a project in cooperation with Münster’s City Region Office. The focus will be on the rural hinterlands. The project addresses urban building forms, growth potentials, characters of local neighbourhoods and regional futures.
The integrated module (Superstudio) takes place with the support of the local communities around Münster. The design is supported by experts: Adeline Seidel (regional narratives and communication), Mareike Babel and Manuel Böwing (cost strategies).
Urban Design II
Radial roads are important traffic infrastructures and at the same time spaces for people. They are the subject of the Urban Design II. The area under consideration is a 4 km long sequence of the Venloer Straße in Cologne.
Public Space Improvement
The Burgplatz in Duisburg is simply a car park next to a large intersection. The asphalted traffic space takes up a large part of the area. The urban design studio looks for attractive urban spaces and strategies for placemaking.
University of Nepal
The University of Nepal is currently being founded. The studio looks for ideas, strategies and concepts for three future sites – the pre-emptive founding of the campus of the UoN. It will be a testbed studio in order to translate guiding principles and the planning program into spatial sustainable situations sounding out future pathways. Further information here.