Health and Wellbeing
Transportation
Residential
Green Parkland
Commercial/Retail
Culture
As Hamburg has expanded, its ability to cope with a rapidly increasing population has contracted. Housing has therefore become a fault line running through the city, now people spend one third of their income on accommodation, and there is deficit of 65,000 dwellings citywide. As such it seems irresponsible then that the city centre, which is rapidly gentrifying, is the site of large-scale investment such as Hafencity. While the east of the city, and in particular Bille and its community has been left to fragment and degrade. We instead envision, that Bille should become the site of new residential and cultural development instead. Based around the Billhorner Deich road that connects the established community in Rothenburgsort, via Rothenburgsort S-Bahnhof, to the Bille basin. A new community will build around this new hub, in time connect and amalgamate with those in the south, and together expand creating a prosperous ‘City District’, while rejuvenating its community, culture and identity, that is not stratified for one section of society, but as an area enjoyed by all citizens as part of Hamburg City. 5