Verwaltungscampus

Town Hall as Civic Square
Königs Wusterhausen

Fakten

Client
Belle Époque Gesellschaft für behutsame Stadterneuerung mbH in cooperation with the City of Königs Wusterhausen

Program
Administrative campus with an extension of the town hall. Uses include registry office, council chamber, library, cafeteria, and office spaces.

Competing Workshop Procedure, 2022

Location

Team

MLA+ / Studio M³
Amelie Böllert, Agnes Helming, Christoph Michael, Elizaveta Mozalevskaya, Maximilian Müller, Marina Rondini

Landscape Design
Grieger Harzer Dvorak Landschaftsarchitekten

Model Making
mhk21 Modellbau und Konstruktion

Concept

Our design lays the foundation for the realization of a central, efficient, and citizen-oriented administrative campus for Königs Wusterhausen. 

The new town hall complex is designed as a campus with freestanding buildings that, through their precise positioning, create differentiated open spaces. The hybrid character of the block, offering both edge-oriented and interior-facing addresses, is further developed. At the heart of the ensemble lies the new Community Square, oriented toward which are the primary entrances of the new buildings. Key public functions such as community services, the council chamber, cafeteria, registry office, and library all face this central space, establishing a new focal point for the town hall ensemble. 

Our concept is guided by the following principles:

  • Creation of moderate urban density that integrates harmoniously into the existing built fabric

  • Establishment of the new town hall complex as a central civic landmark for the growing city of Königs Wusterhausen

  • A new town hall campus with a human scale, seamlessly integrated into the city’s existing urban grain

  • High-quality urban open spaces, a public realm designed for gathering, interaction, and lingering

  • Permeability and connectivity with the surrounding neighborhood, enabling access to the new campus from all adjacent quarters