RESIDENTIAL DISTRICT SPRINGBACHHÖFE
Window to the city and landscape
Location: Paderborn, Germany
Client: City of Paderborn
Competition: 2nd Prize
Year: 2015
Area: ca. 21 ha
Architecture: bogevischs büro architekten and stadtplaner gmbh
To the east of the city of Paderborn, a new residential quarter with around 600 residential units is to be developed on land that is currently still used for agricultural purposes. The aim is to create an attractive, innovative and family-friendly residential quarter with a mixed building structure that offers urban development quality and an attractive price-performance ratio of the housing on offer.
GREEN JOINTS
As the neighbourhood is built with the landscape, the topographical lines of terraces and green joints continue throughout the open spaces. These represent extensive, near-natural spaces that have a strong relationship with the landscape to the south and east.
CLODS AND COMMONS – A NEIGHBOURHOOD-FRIENDLY OPEN SPACES, PLACES FOR YOUNG AND OLD
The structure of the Springbachhöfe is created through an interpretation of the landscape context. Within this basic structure, a robust development network is formed, which is created without thresholds. The access roads form a group of residential clods that can be built on in different ways at their edges. These clods accommodate different types of housing. A large, intensively used green area – the green courtyard – is created in the middle of the clod, a semi-private meeting space that can be used by all residents of the clod.
WINDOWS TO THE CITY, AS WELL AS TO THE LANDSCAPE
With the slope facing the city centre, the green quarter of the Spingbachhöfe extends a green axis oriented radially to the southwest. It also acts as a link between neighbouring residential and leisure structures on the outskirts of the city. These qualities make the Springbachhöfe a window to the city as well as to the landscape.
