Master's thesis | Paula Grundler | 4th semester | Summer semester 2024
Urban development. For the redevelopment of the former Allianz site, the first step is to dismantle the existing structures. The axis of Reinsburgstrasse will be incorporated into the new concept, with the existing green spaces also playing a central role. The new layout is characterised by clear outer edges that form a strong backdrop and create a connection to the surrounding buildings.
This is based on the block structure of western Stuttgart. Inside the neighbourhood, the polygonal façades create new, exciting spaces and outdoor areas. The visual axis to the Feuersee is taken up by the existing high-rise buildings and continued to the Karlshöhe. This leads to a harmonious connection between the neighbourhood, the green space and the city.
A neighbourhood for everyone. The concept describes a neighbourhood that offers living space and jobs for everyone. A wide variety of housing types have been developed for this purpose, offering the right space for all lifestyles and situations. In addition to traditional forms of housing, the neighbourhood also includes cluster flats, assisted living facilities, flats for student living as well as flats and shared flats for senior citizens.
The public areas on the ground floor create a place where living and working function together to make inclusion a holistic theme within the neighbourhood, while a heterogeneous neighbourhood creates openness, communication and vibrancy in the district.
To support this, there is an inclusion café, for example, in which the residents of the assisted living facility can help to shape everyday life in the neighbourhood together and an exchange can take place between all resident groups. This exchange activates the neighbourhood's communal outdoor areas and radiates outwards through the lively and public ground floor zones.
The load-bearing structure varies within the neighbourhood. While the load-bearing structure of the lower tower block remains unchanged and only a new façade will be added, the residential tower will also have an imaginary scaffolding in addition to the new curtain wall façade. This extends the living space by a generous outdoor area.
The new buildings have a uniform, solid concrete base on which the prefabricated timber exterior walls are placed. The partition walls are also prefabricated from timber, thus ensuring rapid construction and flexible conversion. The timber-concrete composite floor system is used in combination with Peikko beams. The solid cores within the houses serve to stiffen the building.
The master's thesis was supervised by Prof Dr.-Ing. Gunther Laux and Prof Martin Stumpf.
