Urban planning, landscape planning structural concept for Hamburg-Neugraben/Fischbek 2002

First prizeGerman Landscape Architecture Award 2003

Jury verdict: The structural concept is a bold response to the increasing problem that public land in urban fringe areas can often no longer be managed in the conventional way. Instead, a symbiosis between agro- and building land is sought, which is to be achieved by interlocking landscape fields with building fields.

An aesthetic environmental and human-friendly landscape design is linked with economic aspects, whereby the proposals are not limited to individual planning, but include a far-reaching management of uses and measures.

The structural concept can possibly also be exemplary for urban redevelopment, for the shrinking and deconstruction of cities, where visions and uses are sought for areas that become vacant: In the Hamburg project, new forms of use and management are developed with tangible economic underpinnings. At the same time, it is an encouragement to landscape architects to become more involved in the process of landscape management and to act as moderators.