Redevelopment of a quarter in Ennigerloh

The remit of the competition was to create a new, attractive start to the eastward extension of the Ennigerloh town centre, by redesigning the town centre quarter in the Clemens-August-Strasse, Grabenstrasse and Geiststrasse area. The solution conceived by andreas schneider architekten was awarded 1st prize. The design idea is based on the fact that, in an established inner-city neighbourhood, the residents move around, and this is made clear by the sequence of newly-created squares, passageways and visual relationships. Residents and visitors can move around (barrier-)freely in the gradually developing residential quarter and at the same time can withdraw. The coherent and public urban space can be experienced as a flowing sequence of squares without buildings blocking the way.

The quarter consists of three parts that can also be realised as autonomous construction phases. Each part creates public and private open spaces that flow smoothly into each other and create links not only in the overall urban context, but also to each other. The result is an overall picture that is urban and harmonious. This can grow little by little, because each ‘quarter within a quarter’, i.e. each construction phase, is just as functional on its own as are all of them together and in combination with the town of Ennigerloh.

Three individual types of townhouse are planned, each providing two- to three-room apartments measuring 50 to 70 square metres in size.

The height of the two- to three-storey houses matches that of the existing buildings and the topography; the small-scale nature of the townscape is taken into account. This creates a homogeneous appearance. The orientation of the buildings in the respective quarters is based on the existing buildings; the gable roofs of the new townhouses have the same north-south orientation as the existing buildings. In this urban design, a total of 95 apartments, 80 of which are barrier-free, will be created.