Four teams have been selected as finalists in a pilot programme for a ULI European student urban design competition, which comes with a prize of EUR 35,000 for the winning team and EUR 7,000 for each of the finalist teams. The competition is being sponsored by ECE Projektmanagement, Grosvenor and Hines.
Four teams have been selected as finalists in a pilot programme for a ULI European student urban design competition, which comes with a prize of EUR 35,000 for the winning team and EUR 7,000 for each of the finalist teams. The competition is being sponsored by ECE Projektmanagement, Grosvenor and Hines.
The teams were selected from among 15 entries representing 10 universities from seven countries - Austria, Belgium, Estonia, Germany, Great Britain, Republic of Belarus, and Turkey. The finalists are: TU Graz / WU Wien; HafenCity University, IREBS University Regensburg; HafenCity University, ADI Hamburg and European Business School Wiesbaden, University of Applied Sciences Frankfurt, University of Applied Sciences Wiesbaden. The winner will be announced during the ULI Europe Emerging Trends Conference on 6 June in Hamburg.
The site selected for the ideas competition is located in Rothenburgsort, southeast of Hamburg’s city centre in the district of Hamburg-Mitte, an area predominantly occupied by commercial land uses and transport infrastructure. The 57.9-hectare site was selected not only for the planning, design, and development challenges it posed to multidisciplinary teams of students, but also for its location in a city that is enhancing its global appeal. As HafenCity expands, new initiatives are connecting the districts south of the Elbe to the city centre and its historic harbour. The site is surrounded by waterways and transected by transportation infrastructure connecting the district to Hamburg, but also dividing it internally. The student teams met these challenges by taking advantage of the economic, physical, and historic context, using a variety of best practices that were environmentally and economically sustainable.
The competition is an outgrowth of the highly successful ULI Gerald D. Hines Student Urban Design Competition in North America, created in 2002 by ULI and Gerald Hines, chairman and owner of the Hines real estate organisation. ‘The purpose of the competition is to raise awareness among the next generation of the important role high-quality urban design plays in creating not just beautiful buildings, but entire living environments,’ Hines said. ‘This is a real site, with real challenges, and we look for practical, innovative solutions that reflect responsible land use,’ said ULI Europe president Bill Kistler. ‘Through this competition, students get hands-on, real-world experience in urban design.’
