Resilient neighbourhoods
Backnang/Stuttgart
Concept proposal, 2020
Our idea sketch for the BACKNANG WEST NEIGHBOURHOOD was longlisted out of more than a hundred submissions by the IBA 27, Germany’s international building exhibition.
Our concept breathes new life into the abandoned industrial buildings, which become the focal points for residential clusters, reinforcing existing and new communities.
The flexible masterplan puts natural landscapes along the banks of the Murr river at the heart of the 16 ha redevelopment. It connects citizens and the river ecosystems through public realm.
In collaboration with german town planners AG.Urban and french landscape architects Topiostudio, studioort have reimagined Backnang as a city responding to the challenges of man-made environmental impact, rapidly changing socio-economics, varied modes of mobility and altered ways of food production.