Residential Quarter, Düsseldorf

Family Ties in Düsseldorf

Our vision for a vibrant community and green connectivity in the Golzheim District.
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Client
Protestant Church in the Rhineland
Status
Study
Progress
2025
Size
18700
m2

A new, sustainable residential quarter is to be created at a location that is now almost completely sealed off as an office site in a heterogeneous urban context.

The area around Kennedydamm, once a green allotment garden island, is today characterized by solitary buildings and abundant greenery. Our design integrates the new buildings into the heterogeneous neighborhood and a lush landscape that promotes ecological and social connections.

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Three new buildings form an urban family that harmoniously integrates into the existing environment and creates new relationships. The first construction phase includes two point blocks that create a transition to the existing buildings and the high-rises under planning, preserving valuable existing trees. The second construction phase forms a courtyard open to the west, characterized by a polygonal structure. This urban structure creates outward expansions for vegetation and tree locations, while a clearly defined center for the community emerges within the courtyard.

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The courtyard's opening to the west and the buildings' southward staggered heights of five to six stories enable attractive, sunny, and tree-shaded open spaces with high recreational quality for residents. The apartments are oriented to open towards the courtyard, thus promoting lively social mixing. The courtyard consists of a chain of eight houses organized as three-row terraces. This arrangement allows for great variance in the allocation of privately financed and subsidized housing. To achieve a lively mix, both housing types are already planned in the first construction phase and alternately arranged in the courtyard of the second construction phase.

The garden offers diverse retreat possibilities with circular spaces for relaxation, play, and social interaction. A central wooden bench, a rain garden, and picnic tables invite lingering. An outdoor kitchen and grill area promote community activities. Tactile elements like stepping stones and water features make the landscape interactive and sustainable. A resilient vegetation strategy with native plants increases biodiversity and creates an urban forest atmosphere. Edible plants and larger trees form a multi-layered ecosystem. The design promotes biodiversity and creates habitats for local wildlife, enriching ecological diversity and providing residents with a connection to nature.

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Jury
“The design presents a successful hybrid of perimeter block development and solitaire structures, which can be logically derived from the surroundings. The approach is both urban in a meaningful way and architecturally well thought out, emphasizing the existing structures while incorporating the neighborhood well. The extensive greening is particularly noteworthy, as it gives the design a high quality and meaningfully integrates the open space into the overall concept. The combination of block edge in the east and two solitaires in the west creates a varied and coherent structure. The design of the building body towards the oval is urbanly challenging, although a better lighting situation is achieved through this decision. The density is implemented in an appropriate manner. The ensemble does not appear closed, but rather fits well into the environment. The open space design, especially in the courtyard, is convincing due to its quality and the creation of interaction spaces, which enable social control.”
Client

Protestant Church in the Rhineland

Acquisition

Competition - 2nd place

Team

C. Wens, M. Sporer, S. Verrieth

Landscape Architects

Delva Landscape Architecture & Urbanism

Visualisation

Vivid Vision