Future Münster 2050

Concept

As part of the workshop procedure, the area is to be urbanistically reorganized, and the existing buildings replaced by contemporary and future-oriented developments while retaining the current tenancy. The housing supply will be increased from 161 to approximately 220 – 230 residential units. The existing housing offer will be supplemented by innovative housing forms, new care concepts, and multi-generational models. Additionally, a four-group daycare center, as well as community and meeting spaces, are to be located within the area. 

Urban Planning
The design consistently evolves from the site, incorporating existing qualities, activating them, and developing them further. Relevant factors here, in addition to the existing urban structures, are Stuttgart’s typical hillside location and the associated opportunities to organize building volumes and the resulting views. 

The design forms a total of three ensembles along the main axis. Two of these are placed as ‚Anger’ along Moselstraße, each widening the street space, while a courtyard is located southeast of Moselstraße. 

The ensembles are conceived as the spatial implementation of the fundamental ideas of Baugenossenschaft Münster am Neckar EG: communal, neighborhood living, with open spaces serving as green living rooms and communication hubs. Due to their spatial constellation, scale, and programming, the ensembles offer a very high potential for appropriation. 

Architecture
The idea of cooperative living continues in the architecture. The buildings north of Moselstraße, at both ‚Anger’ areas, are designed as gallery access typologies, thus extending the spatial and programmatic leitmotifs of the ‚Anger’ into the third dimension. 

The gallery accesses stand as airy and delicate frameworks in front of the building volumes, and in addition to their access function, they form an appropriable and adaptable layer between the ‚Anger’ and the living spaces. This offers the opportunity for meetings, whether planned or spontaneous, but also simply for lingering and thus participating in the atmosphere of the ‚Anger’. The urban planning idea of distinctive, active, and manageable neighborhoods is thus further reinforced. 

Open Space
Moselstraße becomes the Mosel-Anger, the new neighborhood space that connects the three new ensembles. The street transforms into a Shared Space, an integrative meeting zone that accommodates, organizes, and links the various functions of neighborhood life, traffic, and stationary traffic, much like a village green.