Scharnhauser Park

Barracks architecture traditionally has little in common with quality of life. The buildings are arranged and constructed according to purely functional aspects.
But such areas also hold potential. They relieve a city of the pressure of having to designate new building areas on greenfield sites. Like Scharnhauser Park near Ostfildern for example. With its 150 hectares this project represented the largest urban development project of the early 21st century in the Stuttgart area.
Ramboll Studio Dreiseitl provided the impetus for the sustainable use of rainwater to complement the simple, modern philosophy that governed the rest of the planning.
To avoid flooding the planners relied on a differentiated strategy of evaporation, runoff reduction, runoff delay. A network of roadside gutters and ditches runs through the new settlement as an unmistakable design feature.