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At the heart of the large ongoing urban renovation of the area including the now well-known Ile Seguin, where Renault used to have their main factories, Chartier Dalix Architectes just won the competition for an innovative type of school. It will be mixed with a public gymnasium and both will be covered with a “living” shell, hosting a wide range of local fauna and flora, from bugs to owls through different species of trees and plants.
A joint project team of the municipal housing company SAGA GWG and the IBA Hamburg GmbH has opted for sensitive neighbourhood development in the southern Reihersteigviertel with the renovation of a typical workers’ housing settlement of the 1930’s, and has had intercultural dialogue among real-estate owners, users, building and landscape architects and urban planners precede the renovation itself. People from over 20 countries make their homes here, and will be able to continue to use this affordable residential space after the complete renovation of the foundations and features such as spacious loggias. This balancing-act between renovation and revitalisation with new dialogical approaches to planning defines the Hamburg IBA, which makes architectural and urban-planning qualities tangible for a multicultural and urban society.