Mannheim (DE) winner
Alessandro delli Ponti (IT)
Camille Alwan (FR)
KH studio
architect - urban planner
architect - urban planner
44, rue des Vinaigriers
Ilaria Novielli (IT)
Marc Blume (DE)
75010 – Paris, france
architect
landscape architect
T. +33 623889462
Clelia Bartolomei (IT)
Info@khstudio.org
Verdiana Spicciarelli (IT)
www.khstudio.org
students in architecture
364 Mannheim’s connection Team point of view Mannheim’s Connection is the story of a boundary (B38) growing to become a vector of urban continuity. The systemic strategy it presents unveils potential relations between previously disconnected urban areas. The new intense mixed sector alternates newly built areas with structuring green voids, giving an intense depth of field to the bi-dimensional image of B38’s entrance to Mannheim. The progressive development of a new intermodal public transport network optimizes access to the site locally while amplifying its attractiveness at regional scale. Mannheim’s connection is an open evolving story, with structuring episodes and a series of urban protagonists gradually emerging from a process that re-combines inherited urban forms, innovative mobility and enhanced landscapes. Jury point of view Mannheim’s Connection is convincing with a design that re-formulates the entrance to the city as a space to be experienced and used. It links intelligently with the existing buildings in Benjamin Franklin Village and develops them towards the B38 road in dense, mixed-utility building clusters rhythmically alternating with green spaces on the route into the city. The project is a very sustainable conceptual contribution to the “adaptable city”. The project offers the best way to combine the local challenges of a peripheral urban situation and military conversion with the vision of a “post-car-friendly” town.