Claudia Rengier
ZEITZUG – ENTWICKLUNG DES RANGIERBAHNHOFES DUISBURG WEDAU. FH Aachen (Germany)
The former railway facility in Duisburg Wedau is situated approximately five Kilometers south of the Duisburg city centre and is surrounded by attractive green areas as sports park, six-lakes-park and the city forest.
The site with an extention of one square kilometer, is shaped by the railroad tracks of the marshalling yard, and is now to be converted into an area for housebuildung and trade.
The project is based on the idea to develop building fields on the basis of the existing track structure in order to conserve the typical form of the track-groups and the dynamic force and identity of the marshalling yard.
Thus four ‘use-ranges’ are formed, two ‘trade-ranges’ in the north and two ‘living-ranges’ in the south.
The existing vegetation between the track-groups is conserved and runs through the entire project as green course in form of a 'track-park’, which connects the landscape bordering south with the city center.
Connections, running crosswise through the project, link it to the surrounding suburbs and the landscape and break up the existing barrier of the railway line.
Along the active railway tracks on the east, the ‘backbone’ of the project is formed, which provides important functions such as the main-road, supermarket, parking and sporting areas and forms a distance to the residential houses.
On the basis of the very different outer conditions of the ‘living-ranges’, which ly next to living areas, a lake, railway tracks, the park or the trade areas, the important connections and directions of every part have been analysed and transferred into a map of fields that can be used for building.
So quarters with different structures and qualities result within the ‘living-ranges’ which are used to form neighbourhoods with special characters and different kinds of housing and living, public spaces or parking solutions.
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