Messplatz
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Context
Feasibility Study

Question
What does it take for an inner-city brownfield site to
develop its urban and social potential?

Project - Description
The starting point of this spatial intervention was to design a pavilion that would enable the exploration and revitalization of a brownfield in Darmstadt and to bring it into the collective consciousness as a third place. Through my
cultural activities I was invited by the largest housing association in southern Hesse, bauverein AG, in the summer of 2022 to partake in this exploration.

In a team consisting of Kerstin Witwer / Benjamin von Seelen (bauverein AG),  Anna Groos / Julia Wagner (qug) and  Daniel Michael Müller (architects4future) we worked out the spatial appropriation of the vacant Messplatz in Darmstadt by analyzing deficits, considering possibilities and formulating utopias, and how this can be brought into a discursive negotiation about urban spaces through cultural activation.