"Interspace - The Sustainable City"

Sand dune on the Domshof, "social pop-ups" around the "Qube" seating furniture and the transformation of concrete deserts into adventure forests - with visionary designs, 20 Master's students from the School of Architecture Bremen of the Bremen University of Applied Sciences (HSB) and the University of the Arts (HfK) present forward-looking impulses for Bremen's inner city development in the exhibition "Interspace - The Sustainable City". The exhibition of the cooperation project funded by the Senator for Climate Protection, Environment, Mobility, Urban Development and Housing (SKUMS) can be seen in Bremen's city centre opposite the Servicecenter Mitte in Carl-Ronning-Strasse 2 from 14 July to 24 July 2021 (Mondays to Saturdays) from 12 noon to 6 pm each day.

Low quality of stay, traffic reversal and increasing vacancy: these are just some of the challenges for which students in the Master's degree programmes "Architecture / Environmental Design M.A." of the School of Architecture of the Bremen University of Applied Sciences and the Master's studio "Integrated Design, System and Interaction" of the University of the Arts (HfK) developed concrete concept proposals. In the final presentation on 13 July 2021, a jury of experts including State Councillor Gabriele Nießen (SKUMS), Dr. Dirk Kühling (The Senator for Economic Affairs, Labour and Europe (SWAE)), Olaf Orb (Bremen Chamber of Commerce), landscape architect Prof. Verone Stillger and Luisa Ropelato, (Architects for Future) awarded the best designs with prizes and recognition, donated by SKUMS and SWAE.

For the visionary transformation "AusBauHaus", the jury awarded First Prize to Janusz Kendel (HfK) and André Mey (HSB), who transformed the former Horten department stores' into a multifunctional living and cultural space with living, working and a wide range of sharing offers. The "Rakete" lift connects the five large-scale levels of use, which are open 24/7, with an open marketplace, collection and swap exchanges, free work spaces, modular short-term living, informal rental studios and leisure facilities for ownership-free lifestyles.

"Portable, trackable, shareable", the "Qube" seating furniture by Dominik Bardelmann, Samuel Christiansen and Jan Menge unfolds events in a wide variety of places and was awarded second prize as app-controlled "social pop-ups".

The jury awarded two third prizes to the designs "DAZWISCHEN - sustainably strengthening the spaces in between in the city centre" and "KULTURRAUM - rethinking mobility I strengthening the Glocke" for the sustainable development of urban greenery into adventure forests and an innovative mobility concept.

The design "DOM Düne" by Vahid Peyravi, which received a commendation, senses the topography of the cathedral district with a temporary installation of a sandy yellow coating and asks whether attention can be focused on the highest point of the sand dune for an attractive urban space. All projects of the exhibition "Interspace - The Sustainable City" will be presented publicly by the students in a webcast on 20 July 2021 at 7 pm, to which the project groups cordially invite you.
 

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Dr Maike Schaefer, Senator for Climate Protection, Environment, Mobility, Urban Development and Housing of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen, is jointly sponsoring the cooperation project with Bremen University of Applied Sciences, which was opened by State Councillor Gabriele Nießen and introduced with a stocktaking by Dr Dirk Kühling, Head of Department of the Senate Department for Economics, Labour and Europe and Olaf Orb, Head of the Location Policy Division of the Bremen Chamber of Commerce.

In joint online design meetings, the analyses and plans for the in-depth inner city concept were discussed, which Prof. Klaus Overmeyer of Urban Catalyst from Berlin presented for discussion. Accompanied by expert lectures and thanks to this close networking and intensive discussion among the participants (planners, developers, public agencies as well as self-government organisations and interest groups), the learning and research project "Interspace" provides practical preparation for professional practice in and for society.

The "Interspace" project is accompanied by
Prof. Ulrike Mansfeld and Prof. Dr. Christian von Wissel from the HSB and by
Prof. Tanja Diezmann and Prof. Detlef Rahe from the HfK.

Prize winners

1st prize: "AusBauHaus" by Janusz Kendel (HfK) and André Mey (HSB).
2nd prize: "Qube" by Dominik Bardelmann, Samuel Christiansen and Jan Menge (HfK)
3rd prize: "KULTURRAUM - Rethinking Mobility I Strengthening the Bell" by Lasse Röthemeyer and Raphael Ardler (HSB)
3rd prize: "DAZWISCHEN - Sustainably strengthening the spaces in between in the city centre" by Louisa Brüssermann (HSB), Maria G. Gollaz (HfK), Jule Immel (HSB), Sarah Keilbach (Hfk)
Recognition: "DOM Düne" by Vahid Peyravi (HSB)