Bexbach City Center

Bexbach City Center

Client: City of Bexbach

Program: Urban Design

Competition: Multiple 2011 - 1st Place

Area: 25 hectares

Scope/phases: LPH 1-5

Time Frame: 2013-2014

Partners: Ernst + Partner Landschaftsarchitekten, WSV Berantende Ingenieure

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In our view, it is absolutely necessary that Bexbach achieves in a single urban intervention, a sustainable answer to ensure the longevity of the city and supports necessary structural change. This can translate into the motto or theme of the project that grows out of the collective understanding of the city.

Relaxation and sport in the city are already established as central themes to the urban structure, as evidenced by the geographic and the typographic circumstances of the city of Bexbach and the previous urban development of the area. A large number of sporting facilities and clubs support this kind of development and prove that a large percentage of the population can identify with this theme and that resources are available for such projects. Included so as to strengethen this theme are areas for seasonal camping, trade fairs and sporting airport.

Structural initiatives must be launched by the city in tandem with these "soft" factors. Such changes of the urban vision, for example the redesign of the marketplace or the redesign of the Bahnhofstrasse or others, are impetus for the adjacent businesses and private individuals to make their own changes particularly as the newly formed open spaces emphasize the deficits of these neighboring properties.

A spirited optimism results from these interventions, leading itself to multiple subsequent private projects and a dynamic urban development. In our opinon, high quality professional support is needed in order for this process to have a postive effect on the future of Bexbach. This should ensure advice on how to proceed based on the development's measures and their targets, even pointing out those interventions that may be undesirable.

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