Apartment buildings
The area along Mars-La-Tour-Straße, framed by a tree-lined avenue, continuously breaks into ice floes of varying sizes. The resulting floes, designed as elevated private residential courtyards, move freely across the site. This drifting gives rise to intriguing spatial constellations. An interplay emerges between dense and open situations in space. The paths thus formed meander like a river through the quarter, guided by "slip-off and cut banks." The slip-off banks provide seating, while the cut banks delineate the boundary to the private residential floes. The paths widen into courtyards and plazas that serve as gathering areas for the entire quarter and the surrounding neighborhood (senior residence, etc.). The path and plaza system is paved with a homogeneous, water-permeable asphalt and interspersed with loose, light groves.
The residential clusters comprise various building typologies, each grouped around a private, landscaped outdoor area. Analogous to the design of the quarter, the communal area is likewise spatially dissolved into fragments. In this process, the forecourts in front of the apartments are framed as private garden spaces; the resulting negative space constitutes the communal area.
The concept provides for a clear separation between car traffic and pedestrian and bicycle traffic. The parking spaces located in the base area of the residential blocks are accessed at the periphery of the residential quarter (Theodor-Heuss-Platz, Zeppelinstraße and Schackstraße). As a result, the paths and squares between the blocks remain reserved for the residents of the quarter and the immediate surroundings. These areas are available solely for delivery and disposal traffic as well as emergency services. The buildings on the residential blocks are each accessed from the public area. All ground-floor apartments have direct access to a private garden, which is separated from the communal area by hedges.
KDP Ingenieure, IHP Hansaplanung, Wiggenhorn & van den Hövel, wiewiorra hopp schwark architekten, Hannover, Germany, 2011 - 2013
- Quarter: Mosaik Eilenriede
- Size: 35,564 square meters
- Commission: Urban development competition 1st prize.
- Awarding authority: Hochtief Solutions,
- FormArt Investor: AXA Winterthur,
- Patrizia specialist planners KFP Ingenieure, IHP
- Hansa Planung, Wiggenhorn & Vanden Hovel
- Collaboration: wiewiorra hopp architekten
- Cost: 50 million euros
- Period: 2011 - 2013
- Team: Alred Paul, Renato Marazzi, Patrick Ryser, Michael Osswald, Gerold Leible, Simon Lenz, Franziska Jaggi, Rafael Imhof, Darius Radowski
- Apartments: 162
- Total living area: 17,192 square meters
- Address: Mars-La-Tour-Straße, 30655 Hannover
- Source: wiewiorra hopp architekten
