/ Europan 11
Floating Blocks
The project enhances a new “ecological porous city”, which strengthens socio-spatial and ecological connectivity across different scales: the territory and the city, the neigh- bourhood (study area), and the housing-mixed used buildings (project sites).
The project fosters the future ecological development of the city of Wernigerode, propelling new green corridors and fostering the rise of pedestrian and cycling porosity for the town. In a new synergy of mixed living uses and public spaces, they add new creative and cultural qualities against invisibility, exclusion, marginalization, and inaccessibility. New metabolic and inclusive vitalities will rise in the area. The two housing/mixed used projects and their neighbourhood will become the prelude and catalyst of this new urban process and relationship between natural ecologies and social encounters.
TEAM:
Autors: Alina Lippiello, Leonardo Zuccaro Marchi, Annalisa Romani, Ivo Covic (LAP)
CoPE_Collective of Projects in Equipoise – https://co-p-e.com/
Concorso: Europan 11, Leeuwarden, The Netherlands.
The master-plan hosts 400 houses with direct view and contact with water and is divided in three main sectors: the “Venice Arsenale” on the West, the “Tokyo bay” on the center and the “San Francisco bay” on the East. In The ‘Tokyo Bay’, the main dry lands are spaced by smaller strips of ground, which are wetlands of sustainability, with presence of sport facilities, solar panels wind pales or greenery in order to create a self-sufficient neighborhood. In case of necessity these lands can be occupied by new houses developments as well.
The Islands may be submerged during some periods of the year. Therefore the section is sloping and the vegetation is thought to be adaptable with different humidity condition. Community gardens will find place in the highest part close to the bicycle path. They will help the population to create a sort of ‘sustainable neighborhood’ with both the energetic and the economic self-subsitance is desirable. In the ‘Venice bay’, these private spaces become micro-public spaces keeping their identity, intimacy discreation as well.
