Quartier Am Rotweg Stuttgart, Rot Building, IBA 27, German Architecture Images
Quartier Am Rotweg Buildings
4 June 2021
Quartier Am Rotweg Design
Design: Delugan Meissl Associated Architects
Location: Rot, north Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg, south west Germany
Guiding Principle – Diversity
Entries to competitions that form part of IBA 27 should combine high architectural quality, experimental building methods and social and ecological aspects.
This concept envisages a dynamic, socially-mixed urban quarter that offers high-quality design to a range of user groups while retaining the existing trees.

The design seeks to create a transition between the area of small-scale detached houses to the north and the large-scale, high-rise development to the south, while combining these two typologies with the help of an esplanade that crosses the district from east to west.
The urban quality of this esplanade enables it to act as both the entrance to the quarter and a place for meeting outside the buildings. It stretches from Schozacher Straße to the sports pitch and is lined with commercial buildings, social facilities and the kindergarten as well as open areas that can find specific uses at a later stage.

Hence, the esplanade connects a series of places that encourage diversity and exchange ? which are essential components for a high quality of life and identification with the quarter.

Typology ? a horizontal and vertical garden settlement
The two typologies of small-scal...