Client
City of Münster
MMQ3 – Modellquartier 3 Münster 2024
Procedure
competition
Characteristics
- 20 ha
Urban design
Visualisation
Collaboration
- Mathias Maurerlechner
- Mohammed Essam
- Zhaojun Wang
Award
3rd prize
Transformation of the former industrial areas into a diverse, urban mixed-use and climate-adapted neighborhood
Large tankers and small buildings
Today, the site is characterized by an interplay of large hall structures and small buildings. This heterogeneity is currently characteristic of the location. The scale of the halls defines the grain of the newly developed urban structure “ out of the site”. This also enables a flexible approach to the existing buildings in the development process of the district.
The spacious areas (sealed and unsealed) and narrow supply lanes create a special character in the area today. The areas form the starting point for the development of high-quality open spaces for the district. The orthogonal grid of narrow supply lanes will be further developed as blue-green residential lanes.
Special types
There are various small buildings in the plan area that can convey the current character of the neighborhood in the future. They have a special role to play in the new quarter as places of community, neighborhood or club life.
Parks
The planning area on the Dortmund-Ems Canal is currently isolated between the water and major traffic axes. It is therefore important to embed the area in a diverse, superordinate open space system and to create links from the depths of the new urban space to the water and beyond. The quarter opens up structurally to the promenade along the Dortmund-Ems Canal. All open spaces within the district are also oriented towards the water: sports and forest areas to the north and south, while DEK Park opens up in the middle as a central open space.
Climate resilience and rainwater concept
The rainwater in the residential streets is channelled into open drain channels and evaporation beds and seeped away decentrally. Additional areas are provided for this purpose in the central DEK Park, Lütkenpark and the green areas on the neighborhood square. The buildings on the construction sites have retention roofs that can store and evaporate the rainwater that accumulates.
There are also evaporation and infiltration areas close to the surface in the green residential courtyards. The interplay of the open block structures with green inner courtyards, buildings with green roofs and climate-active façades, together with the blue-green residential streets, ensure a pleasant microclimate in the new neighborhood.
