Bakpak Architects together with the German office ALN win the 1st Prize in the International Competition for Architectural and Urban Planning of a residential area in the city of Karlsruhe (Germany). The close relationship with this study has already earned them the Germering Master Plan and the Ausburg Housing Tower.
The city of karlsruhe is marked by the forgotten traces of ancient meanders of the Rhine River. One of them is located a few meters from the Marster plan’s intervention area. With this in mind, the project proposes to introduce water lagoons in the public space as connection elements of the public space and as key pieces in the identity of this new ecological neighborhood. Meeting places that connect the existing with the new, generating meeting places for the neighbors. On the other hand, in the intervention zone two cross streets converge that connect the city with this space of water and trees so attractive. The winning proposal of Bakpak Architcts and ALN seeks maximum permeability to this place through the carving of the pieces creating a branched system of roads that strengthen the relationship of urban and natural, thus facilitating access to this space for the inhabitants of The whole neighborhood.

The proposal also takes into account that the intervention area is in an intermediate place between a city with a traditional plot and a city with a garden city. For this reason, it is proposed that a gradual transition between semi-detached single-fa...