FRANKFURT-BOCKENHEIM URBAN QUARTER
An identitary quarter in the “city without characteristics”
Location: Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Client: State of Hesse
Competition: 5th Prize – international comp. (213 participants)
Year: 2003
Architecture: Lechner und Lechner
Past and future — distinctiveness of the locations — lasting values
The identity of the neighbourhood around the Bockenheimer Warte is shaped by its characteristic buildings. The urban development concept envisages that the ‘historical solitaires’ will be woven into the urban context through individual treatment appropriate to the building with a superordinate grammar based on Frankfurt’s perimeter block development. The result is a sequence of different spatial constellations characterised by the interplay of space-defining development with solitary buildings crystallised by open spaces.
