The Rhineland Europe is one of the places of power and it is the world's most dynamic space in Europe. Six major metropolitan areas define the Rhineland Europe from south to north, the Rhine-Neckar conurbation (2.4 million), with Mannheim (polity), Heidelberg (culture, university) and Ludwigshafen (chemical industry). Fifth largest city with 144,000 inhabitants Land, more than 25,000 students, the city of Heidelberg is best known for its university and its attraction, the castle. Heidelberg is regarded as a landmark in the territory of Europe-Rhine, and stands as emblematic of the city Rhine-Neckar conurbation.
In this context, any project of the city is to be considered at three scales of analysis : the real first, lived space in practices, then the symbolic, in the perceived space of the representation and finally the imagination, in the constructed space of the project. This triplicity of space is reflected in the site mutation in the development of its banks.
The project is based on the size of the land plot, to give the measure and find an anchorage in the origins of the soil. These sequences are needed to punctuate the vast space of 2km long and sit for the diversity of practices. On the banks, the space segment is then seen in seven entities, named varias (variations on a theme) (from east to west): 1. the 'Park Stairs', 2. the University gate, 3. the 'Scientific Amphitheatre', 4. the University Alley ', 5. the 'Studenlife wood', 6. the 'Biodiversity Center', 7. the 'Linear Walk'.
Location
Heildelberg, Germany
Client
City of Heildelberg
Architects
Carole Lanoix, Amélie Marchisé,
Olivier Terrisse, architectes DE HMONP
Program
Design the Neckar bank around the
campus
Response Zone
2km of Neckar bank
Time-table
Project : june 2009, 5th on 32
participants, publish in Europan 10
Ergebnisse in Deutchland und Polen
