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Park City Bahnhof Ulm offers an urban development vision for the central station and station area in Ulm (Germany). Cuirrently the station area forms an absolute separation between the historic town centre and the vast western city areas. The urban plan combines the large scale of the station with the small scale of the city of Ulm and it connects the two city districts by a natural routes across the railway tracks.

The plan unites two worlds: the inner world formed by the station, which interconnects the new program (offices, facilities, parking, housing, hotel and park) and forms a direct link to the station by a boardwalk above the railway. The exterior seizes the fine grid of the historic city.

The new station entrance is formed by a lower plaza that connects the rail access and the historic inner city by a gradual lowering of the shopping street up to the square. The station of Ulm is clearly recognisable by the monumental cover which refers to the famous Ulm Design Institute, thus forming a landmark on the line between Munich and Stuttgart.

On the east side a new city district is being realised, based on half-open urban blocks, offering a a pleasant green street environment. Two urban squares form the existiing theater and the central station.

 

 

year
2011 - 2011

GFA
200,000 m²

in cooperation with
Ingenieursbureau Voessing, Stuttgart

project team
Vincent van der Meulen, Peter van der Helm, Anja Mueller, Frank Hendriks, Eike Lehnhoff, Jürgen Powroslo