Green Harold Bay 1st prize in competition

The design of the open spaces builds on the concept of the Blue-Green Ring as an urban cultural landscape. The landscape is recreated by placing the buildings on the south side and rerouting traffic flows. Traffic on Harold Street will be reduced to trams and buses in the site area, allowing for a green cross connection between the Rhine and the Schwanenspiegel. The relation to the existing watercourses is created by opening the Düssel between Speeschem Graben and Schwanenspiegel and by creating the Green Harold Bay with organically shaped meadows, trees and water elements. The bay is complemented by a network of paths, entrance plazas, a large public square with a water table and a play area. The small-scale organic structuring causes a slowing down of the flow of movement and social interaction and forms an antipole to the anonymous car lanes in the south.