It's not easy being green

2013 Europan 12_ kaufbeuren, d | concorso The idea was to build a system which could be able to absorb the necessity of the urban and economic development of the city, through the reuse and the safeguard of a big open space, by its conversion into a fruitful territory. This double vision turned into the definition of perimetral urban system and a rural-residential park in the area of the landing field. A generative green heart surrounded by a ring which houses productive systems, research campus, residences and commercial areas. Its depth is defined through the external off-set of the project boundary given by the competition. Urban growth and happy decrease qualified an open system, able to absorb hypothetical variables too.