Donauwörth (DE) winner
Valentin Cordebar (FR)
8 rue Jolivet
Raphaël Masson (FR)
75014 Paris, France
architects
T. +33 626174770 keptsoil@gmail.com
288 Kept soil Team point of view The Alfred Delp barracks form a separate, landlocked and autonomous entity. The aim is to connect this area to the city and to generate a new urban fragment. Kept soil answers this question of adaptability with a respectful, sensitive and ambitious approach to the site. The project establishes a series of reasoned initiatives to offer public spaces with high spatial qualities and to create an overall density appropriate to the district. The analysis shows three prevalent existing building typologies. The approach is to convert each of them into a new residential unit: the former dormitories are rehabilitated to become townhouses, concrete garages retain their structure and become covered villages and metal garages are demolished to give way to villas on stilts. Jury point of view The submission takes a stringent conceptual approach that focuses on the resource-saving conversion of the existing structures: the structure for future development is directly derived from the existing buildings and infrastructure. There should be no further sealed surfaces other than those already existing. Suggestions have been made for three building typologies that can be developed from these basic elements: it results in a differentiated range of housing types with a density that is globally appropriate for the town district.