You promised us a future
B.A. project
The cultural landscape around Leipzig-Halle Airport becomes a canvas for a new approach to land use. The planners involved in the extensive transformation find a temporary home in the residential blocks. You Promised Us a Future questions the current division between agriculture, industry, and natural spaces, painting a hopeful picture of the future and living conditions. Instead of conventional spatial patterns, the functional areas flow seamlessly into one another. Access to the different areas is provided via a straight, slightly elevated walkway that ends in the water at both the northern and southern ends. Residents meander through the day, up and down stairs, without losing sight of the natural surroundings.
Instead of merely designing a long-stay apartment, the team considered the entire surrounding landscape to create a vision of a livable and natural environment. To refine this vision, we provided AI with data from the climate model "Restorative Pathway" developed by Oregon State University, helping us determine what needs to change and how it might look. By incorporating the needs of nature into our design approach, a beautiful pattern of natural forests, agriculture, and human interventions emerges. Architecture, once seen as a contributor to climate change, is reimagined as a tool for reconciling with nature.
Team:
Franziska Schauffelberger, Pepe Nitz
Professor and Assistant:
Prof. Axel Müller-Schöll and Juliane Bartholdt with Matthias Brockhaus
