Europan Germany

Scale 
L/L

Team Composition 
Architect mandatory

Location 
Regensburg, Bavaria

Population 
170,000 inhabitants

Reflection site 
425 ha

Project site 
107 ha

Site proposed by 
Regensburg municipality

Actors involved 
Regensburg municipality, private partners

Owner(s) of the site 
Regensburg, private owners

Commission after competition 
Workshops will be held to discuss and possibly refine the results. The city of Regensburg plans the following steps after presenting the competition results:
- Specification of the urban-development framework planning,
- Optionally, beginning at the same time with work on the detailed planning of the first construction section around the mobility point,
- Transfer of the results for the first construction section to urban land-use planning as well as structural implementation. 

Depending on the results, commissioning of the selected team is desired, but subject to political and council approval.

 

Competition task: Closing the gap in the north of Regensburg
For Regensburg, the aim is to develop a mixed-use, low-traffic district that is as climate-neutral as possible. In doing so, it is important to take balanced density, minimal land sealing, and climate resilience into account.

The 107-hectare-large project site in the north of Regensburg represents one of the last large space reserves for the further development of the city and is situated between a commercial area and the existing settlement area. The new city district is supposed to close the spatial gap and provide affordable living space for at least 5,000 residents.  The aim is a city of fifteen minutes: Besides living space with multifaceted, contemporary forms of housing and building typologies, workplaces, commercial premises, and social infrastructures as well as areas for sports and recreation should be created.

Regensburg, with its roughly 170,000 residents is located in the Free State of Bavaria; in the middle of the landscape of the Danube plain with its river valleys and rolling hills. 

What is sought is an urban-development and landscape-planning approach to a solution distinguished by a future-oriented handling of the high value of unsealed land. This includes careful land usage as well as the integration and transformation of surrounding areas of the city and existing structures as available space resources. A new sealing of land raises the question of appropriate urban-development density and its distribution.

The expansion of the city is supposed to occur in several development phases—temporally and spatially sensible construction sections should be proposed for this. Work should begin with elaboration area 1 at the new railway stop. 

Key questions connected to the task:
How can an identity-forming, low-traffic city district be created in the sense of a city of fifteen minutes with a combination of housing, work, and commerce, and simultaneously distinguished by a future-oriented handling of the value of unsealed land?  In the context of the question of re-sourcing, what is a suitable urban-development and landscape-planning approach to a solution for this task?  How can closing the gap in the urban fabric be designed in harmony with natural processes? What architectural forms of expression, building methods, and building typologies are oriented towards the future?

Site visit and questions:
March 28, 2025, 10:00 a.m. to approx. 1 p.m.
Meeting point: Council Chamber in the New Town Hall (Neues Rathaus)

We will take a bus from the Town Hall to the project site - please register for a seat on the bus until the 21st of March (l.meyer@europan.de)

D.-Martin-Luther-Straße 1,
93047 Regensburg

 

Image Credits
(Fig. 1) Stadtverwaltung Regensburg, Amt für Stadtentwicklung, Foto: Hansa Luftbild AG, © Urheber
(Fig. 2, 3, 6, 7) Stadt Regensburg, DB 1.3 Presse- und Öffentlichkeitsarbeit, Foto: Stefan Effenhauser
(Fig. 4, 5) Stadt Regensburg, Stadtplanungsamt, Foto: Johannes Sporrer