Competition Siemens Campus Erlangen
| Location | Erlangen |
|---|---|
| Area | 13.3 hectares |
| Use | Living, working, hotel industry, local supply, social facilities |
| Client | Siemens Campus Erlangen Grundstücks GmbH & Co. KG |
| Landscape Architects | grabner huber lipp Landschaftsarchitekten |
| Visualisation | Nadine Kuhn |
| Date | 2025 |
| Awards | 3rd prize |
| Project Team | Peter Scheller, Raphael Rogalli, Alexander Antebi, Iryna Biletska |
LOCATION
The decision to develop the former research site in Erlangen Bruck into a mixed-use district of Erlangen is an important impetus for the development of the entire city of Erlangen. The excellent public transport connections play just as important a role as the proximity to natural areas for recreation.
At the same time, the opening up of the previously secured industrial site into a structure of different urban neighbourhoods with differentiated focal points of use forms the basis for a communalisation of the area.
Work on highly complex models of our common future and urban models of tomorrow characterise the atmosphere of the northern campus. This work by specialists in changeable teams characterises an order of maximum flexibility and adaptability that follows these entrepreneurial challenges typologically and in its structure.
In line with ‘new work’, additional important building blocks are created as offers to employees. Open spaces in particular form a defining structure of the new urban district.
One focus of the current design is the spatial and functional connection between the northern neighbourhood, which is dedicated to work, and the new southern part, which is primarily residential.
The location of the neighbourhoods in relation to the neighbouring landscape and public transport services already provides a productive impetus for interlinking. During the day, people working on the campus regularly visit the south-facing open spaces and natural areas, use childcare facilities, catering services and also use living space there.
At the same time, the new residential neighbourhood is linked to the facilities in the northern part of the campus and along Günther-Scharowsky Strasse.
CITY SPACE
As a result of these characteristics of the existing location, the present planning for the Siemens Campus, and with a view to the requirements of a city of the future in general and in Erlangen in particular, the following urban planning parameters are to be prioritised. An interweaving spatial momentum demands an independent formal method. The aim is to design a differentiated urban space for the new neighbourhood. This is divided into neighbourhoods that tie in with existing neighbourhood building blocks and at the same time form attractive, spatially linked open spaces. These staggered neighbourhood building blocks create spatially defined recreational spaces, which, as a linear, east-west running structure, mediate into the wide landscape of the Brucker Lache. At the same time, the new neighbourhood continues the idea of green boulevards and extends these as important north-south running inner green spaces to the Bachgraben in the south.
