Look in, look out
Stuttgart's Citizens' Park: Look in, look out.
Team name: Orange Blu
Authors:
Cem Altineller, Bettina Anders, Oliver Blaschy, Jürgen Class,
Konstantin Dobrynin, Christian Heim, Christian Junge, Mehrdad Jabbari
Basir, Elvir Karovic, Christian Krichner, Valerian Kleinschnitz, Anne
Kohler, Thomas Kohler, Jasmina Kosic, Okanovic, Jinxin Liu, Kristina
Lopes, Adolfo Montilva, Mahtab Nazemi Torbati, Claudia Papic, Helia
Saleki, Jaemin Sung, Philip, Schene, Claudia Schirner, Manuel Schupp,
Glenn Wiedemeyer-Worbes, Felix van Bemmel, Peter Vorbeck, Tilman Weber, Germany
The Stuttgart Citizens' Park:
- with shell limestone walls.
- with terraced areas of meadows and vines.
- with Stuttgarter Stäffele, whose steps are also seating steps.
- with an S-shaped ramp that provides accessibility.
- with the water level (mineral springs), which marks the boundary to the underground station.
- with the reused platform roofs as a link to the new Rosenstein quarter, telling the history of the place.
This slope, like a vineyard, becomes the lowest point of the city center and is the logical continuation of Stuttgart's topography.
Citizens can now see the trains arriving and departing from the new station concourse with its chalice supports and have a view of the historic Bonatz building.
Travelers from Bucharest to Paris, for example - via Budapest, Vienna, Munich - entering from the south from Messe Stuttgart
into a tunnel system. Only from Feuerbach in the north do they emerge into daylight again.
What do they see of Stuttgart?
1,200 trains pass through Stuttgart Central Station every day and there are around 250,000 passengers in the building. About the same number of people stay on the trains. Now they are looking through a shop window at Stuttgart's Bürgerpark, which stands for our city: its people, its history, its topography, its culture and its future.
A water mirror with stages attracts spectators and listeners and a mineral water fountain provides refreshment. The terraced slope with meadows and vines, playgrounds and seating invites visitors to linger and enjoy activities.
The ramp-shaped large S allows barrier-free access to the Bürgerpark on the slope and provides access to the bicycle parking garage.
Under the reused platform roofs, an open and weather-protected space is created for meetings, for kiosks with gastronomic offers, advice or for market stalls, for book and game shelves or for sports offers with sports equipment rental.
Our idea of a shop window in the Bürgerpark can form the basis for an ideas competition for the design and use of the space.