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1991 |
/ 92 Coming to terms with regional settlement and industrial history |
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1993 |
- 95 Exhibition projects on the history of residential settlement and industrial development A master plan is worked out for the chemicals production site in Bitterfeld in cooperation with the University of Miami School of Architecture |
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1996 |
Planning Workshop and the Bitterfeld-Wolfen Master Plan Designing an artistic guidance and orientation system for Bitterfeld-Wolfen in cooperation with a project group from the University of Graphics and Publishing of Leipzig |
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1997 |
Brainstorming on Bitterfeld Hill: a design workshop to create new symbols for the industrial
landscape A comprehensive structural concept for the chemicals and industrial park of Bitterfeld-Wolfen (moderation EXPO 2000 Saxony-Anhalt Ltd, in cooperation with the Bauhaus Dessau Foundation on the advisory board |
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1998 |
South Garden City/Bitterfeld workshop project: designs for a future-oriented re-interpretation
of the concept of the historical Garden City European Urban and Regional Planning Awards 1997/98: special commendation in the category Regional Planning for the Planning Workshop and the Bitterfeld Wolfen MasterPlan Exchange of experiences with the city of Venice over the renewal of former industrial locations (Porto Maghera) International Bauhaus Kolleg (pilot phase): Urban Sprawl City versus Settlement. Partners: Universidade Federal de Rio de Janeiro; University of Miami School of Architecture; Munich Technical University, Department of Landscape Design and Planning; Berlin Weissensee Art College, Department of Architecture |
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1999 |
Bitterfeld Wolfen New Town/Network Town: a Bauhaus Dessau Foundation project |
from the »cité industrielle«
to a network city
The name Bitterfeld, which became a symbol of the industrial destruction of nature and
resources in 1989, is apparently Flemish in origin. »Beter veld«, the »better field« was
located in the fertile meadows by the Mulde River until 150 years of mining and chemicals
production left their devastating mark.
We are now confronted with a multiform and contradictory settlement area for whose long-term
development a great variety of interest groups share responsibility. For as long as they fail
to find joint perspectives on how to redesign the region, its architectural and spatial
quality as well as the quality of life will tend to remain the unsatisfactory result of
isolated acts and decisions. What better ways exist for cultivating this field?
In 1996, the Bitterfeld-Wolfen Planning Workshop drew up a Masterplan that provided a
joint model for developing the region for the very first time. The Bauhaus Dessau
Foundation paved the way with its concept for a cooperative, theme-oriented planning
process involving the municipalities of Bitterfeld, Wolfen and Greppin as well as
representatives of the chemicals industry and other partners. The vision and gradual
realization of a New Town have evolved on the basis of the Master Plan: a town that is
moving away from a fragmented industrial landscape to create a new spatial network and
form.
The basic points were formulated in a Charta in 1996, which was publicly discussed and adopted by the municipal committees. Key Charter goals for the town's future development include assessing what exists at present and internal development as well as the acceptance and promotion of a polycentric structure for the Bitterfeld Wolfen region focusing on »unity through difference«.
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