VEEDL4 creates a vibrant piece of city: dense, diverse, and well connected. Open spaces, buildings, living, and working are closely intertwined, forming a strong whole centered around community. Many amenities are shared, distances are short, and daily life can be organized locally. At the same time, the surrounding neighborhood benefits from new connections, public spaces, and shared facilities.

The design consciously builds on the existing site. A distinctive high-rise element at the entrance on Brühler Straße combines key functions such as daycare, healthcare services, and local retail. Behind it, the neighborhood opens up with the preserved existing building, the VEEDL Café, and the lively central space known as the VEEDLHerz. More quietly positioned is the residential courtyard, offering a protected retreat for residents.

A continuous green corridor links all parts of the development and connects it to the surrounding area. The VEEDL Park, the lively center, the green pathway, and the quiet courtyard together create a diverse network of open spaces. New pedestrian routes improve connections to schools, public transport stops, and adjacent residential neighborhoods. Trees, green areas, and permeable surfaces also improve the local climate and support on-site rainwater infiltration.

Living and working are closely connected. Spaces for healthcare, crafts, small businesses, and creative work are combined with a variety of housing types. The compact apartments are complemented by shared amenities, creating more space for everyone without consuming additional land.

The district is designed primarily for people: everyday journeys can be made on foot or by bicycle, while car traffic is reduced and efficiently organized. The buildings are simple, flexible, and adaptable to future needs.

The Rákosrendező Masterplan is a transformative 244-hectare brownfield redevelopment in the heart of Budapest, including a 148-hectare action area, redefining one of Europe's most significant urban regeneration sites.

In collaboration with Coldefy, Treibhaus, Spora Architects, and Markó & Placemakers, the project was awarded First Prize in an international competition commissioned by the Budapest Capital Asset Management Centre on behalf of the Municipality of Budapest.
The proposal introduces over 10,000 new homes alongside commercial, civic, and recreational spaces, all structured around the principles of the 15-minute city. At its core lies the existing railway landscape, reimagined as a defining spatial framework that supports mobility, long-distance views, and a network of public parks. This backbone is complemented by a system of interconnected green and blue corridors, enhancing ecological performance while creating attractive, accessible public spaces.
The new district is organised into six distinct neighborhoods, each with its own identity and local centre, anchored by a central mobility hub around a new train station. This structure enables flexibility, accommodating diverse lifestyles, household types, and future urban dynamics. A strong emphasis is placed on high-quality public space, with a sequence of key green areas- including a railway park, the large forest park, and a sports park- linked by a continuous north–south green axis.
The plan will convert the long-neglected railway area on the Pest side, over the next 15 years, into a European benchmark of sustainability- lively, mixed-used and landscape-driven.

As the entrance to Stuttgart's new main station, the A3 development site plays a special role in the urban fabric. In a location that, more than almost any other, symbolises transformation and public consultation processes, the open public competition 'Raum für Ideen' (Space for Ideas) highlighted what is missing from the future city centre: a consumption-free, weather-protected yet open space for the urban community.
With the O.A.S.E., we propose a social innovation hub here as public-benefit-oriented infrastructure – an Open Appropriation and Social Development Space that functions as a climatic and social oasis.
The reused supporting structure of the historic station canopy provides an overarching framework, beneath which a permeable fabric of open space and buildings emerges. In this sheltered interior, leisure and activity converge: people can simply be here, strike up conversations, initiate projects, develop them further together and test them in practice. Workshops, open learning and exchange spaces, as well as venues for display and presentation, intertwine to make social issues visible and negotiable.
This creates a new urban space that not only offers shelter and a pleasant environment, but also acts as a catalyst for exchange, participation and collective action, and supplements the city centre with a public infrastructure that has been lacking until now.

The new Elisabeth-Aue neighborhood combines a high proportion of modular housing units with a diverse urban structure. It is based on a flexible framework that, through its spatial and landscape design, creates diverse, climate-adapted spaces offering a high quality of life. The central "Elisabeth-Meile" with tram access structures the neighborhood in a north-south direction, while two green-and-blue open-space axes running east-west integrate the surrounding landscape areas and create additional structure.

A total of approximately 5,000 residential units will be created, predominantly in 5–6-story buildings with select architectural accents. Generous building plots with unpaved, green courtyards, as well as complementary building types and mixed-use developments, ensure a diverse range of housing options. The center, featuring a neighborhood square, local amenities, commercial space (approx. 30,000 m² gross floor area), mobility options, and social facilities, forms the vibrant heart of the district.

The open space concept aims to create a climate-adapted urban space with a low degree of paving (approx. 30%) and multifunctional green spaces for rainwater management, biodiversity, and recreation. Overall, the result is a sustainable, resilient neighborhood that serves as a model.

With the design for a new residential area in Nad Kamínkou, we see development not merely as the provision of housing, but as a catalyst for the sustainable transformation of the entire neighbourhood. Our aim is to convert what is currently a car-oriented and fragmented site into a vibrant, green and excellently connected district that brings together the urban energy of Prague and the landscape and scenic qualities of Zbraslav, serving as a role model for future neighbourhood developments.
The masterplan combines the potential of the busy Elišky-Přemyslovny Street with the extensive, green Borovičky Park. At the western entrance to the neighbourhood, a mobility hub serves as a clear landmark with a lively public square, making a strong urban statement. It enables convenient transfers between car, bus, bicycle and pedestrian traffic and marks the transition to a lowtraffic residential environment. To the east, the park forms a green counterpole with generous areas for nature, sports and recreation.
The neighbourhood mediates both spatially and functionally between these two poles, balancing urban intensity and landscape openness while offering a careful interplay of privacy and permeability. Three green axes structure the area: a communal north axis with a square, orchard and gardens, a blue-green axis with visible rainwater management, and a green boulevard in the south. The architecture follows this logic: Terraced block structures define clear spatial boundaries and lively ground floor areas, while detached city villas create create a smooth transition to the park. Shared courtyards connect architecture and open space.

With the New Centre, Silberstedt is gaining a strong, identity-forming centre that reorganises public services and further develops the town from its existing stock. Education, health, culture, housing, utilities and mobility are spatially bundled and linked together via short distances. This creates a neighbourhood suitable for everyday use and suitable for all generations, bringing together the basic functions of village life at its core. The starting point is the careful conversion of a landmark building from 1886. Instead of new construction, the concept focuses on further building: existing structures are preserved, repurposed and activated with new functions. The community centre, village office and village canteen create space for clubs, work and encounters – resource-saving, economically efficient and firmly anchored in the history of the place. The existing buildings remain an anchor that creates identity and become the driving force behind development.

A clearly structured open space system unfolds between the village square and the village park. The square forms the urban stage for markets, festivals and exchanges, while the park, as a green centre, combines local recreation, play, sport and biodiversity. At the same time, it takes on a climate-adapted function as a retention area during heavy rainfall.

The centre is complemented by a community swimming pool, a cross-generational residential quarter and the upgrading of the school and kindergarten. Barrier-free paths, new bus stops, sharing services and bicycle parking spaces strengthen the sustainable mobility.

The development vision transforms the former industrial site into an urban, mixed-use neighborhood. The proposal relies on clear spatial edges, strong address formation, and a carefully calibrated relationship between living, working, and public space. Distinctive building corners, a finely tuned grain, and a differentiated height profile create orientation and identity.

At its center lies a generous public playground that acts as the heart of the neighborhood, framed by active ground-floor uses. A continuous east–west connection strengthens links to the surrounding green corridors and introduces new addresses within the quarter. The courtyard structures draw inspiration from the characteristic Listhöfe, creating protected outdoor spaces for housing, childcare, and community uses.

The open space concept focuses on climate resilience, diverse planting, clear places to stay, and the option of a sponge-city approach. Flowering meadows, retention areas, and green facades support biodiversity and a pleasant microclimate.

The buildings draw on local typologies: office and commercial blocks with distinctive plinth zones, and residential buildings with colour-differentiated façades, dormers, loggias, and mansard roofs. Flexible floor plans allow long-term adaptability. An underground car park, bicycle hubs, and short distances support a car-free lifestyle. The result is a vibrant urban building block that brings together openness, diversity, and high-quality open spaces to form a clear and robust neighborhood.

Under the title 'Blankenburg Quartet', a new urban quarter is being created with four independent neighbourhoods that combine to form a diverse, communal and sustainable whole. The design further develops the plans for the circular city in the south of Blankenburg. Water cycles, biodiversity, microclimate, active mobility and diverse uses of open space form the basis of a resilient neighbourhood structure that gives equal consideration to social, ecological and economic aspects.

The neighbourhoods have different focuses in terms of landscape, mix of uses, public space and community infrastructure:

AuenKiez: Landscape-oriented residential quarter along the tram line, characterised by the Schmöckpfuhlgraben with retention areas and wetlands – a climate-adapted living environment.

WaldAllmende: Island neighbourhood with a school, sports hall, daycare centre, playgrounds and open spaces for residents, clubs and educational institutions. The adjacent forest remains a natural and recreational area.

ZenKiez: A combination of residential areas in the east and commercial courtyards in the west, combining work, everyday life and retreat, and integrating existing spiritual use.

Production triangle: Urban commerce with a circular hub at the heart of a resource-saving circular economy.

All neighbourhoods are connected via a common centre that serves as a social, cultural and functional meeting place. Existing paths and green corridors are continued, landscape structures are integrated and small-scale developments and green transition zones are used to mediate between them at the edges.

Sustainable and Community-Oriented Neighbourhood
The project is developing a sustainable, community-oriented and ecologically responsible residential neighbourhood. A central neighbourhood axis connects the neighbourhoods, provides recreational and play areas, and integrates climate-friendly elements such as trees, unsealed surfaces and rainwater management. Green courtyards structure the neighbourhood, promote biodiversity and create lively places for interaction.

Active Ground Floors and Building Types
The ground floors activate neighbourhood life with co-working spaces, workshops, guest apartments, a daycare centre, mobility services and small-scale commercial enterprises. Three building types – polygon, point and bar – enable diverse forms of living, clear orientation and serial, economical implementation. The project will be realised in four construction phases, integrating existing buildings.

Pilot Project for Circular Construction
The polygonal structure serves as a pilot project for circular construction. It is characterised by simple cubature, timber construction, biogenic insulation materials, low-tech building services, reduced spans and uniform grids. These principles ensure dismantlability, material efficiency, short construction times and cost advantages. The experience gained will form the basis for all subsequent construction phases.

Open Spaces and Climate Resilience
The open spaces are clearly structured and interconnected. Open courtyards, small neighbourhood squares and a car-free axis with play, sports and recreation areas ensure orientation, interaction and a high quality of life. Unsealed surfaces, climate-resilient vegetation, meadows and decentralised rainwater management create 'cool islands' and increase the climate resilience of the neighbourhood.

Diverse Housing Supply and New Identity
A total of around 440 residential units of various sizes and types are being built – from small flats to cluster and family flats. The mix of housing, community, social facilities and neighbourhood-friendly businesses creates a lively, sustainable and future-proof neighbourhood that is oriented towards the scale of the location and at the same time creates new identities.

A community-oriented neighborhood is taking shape on the site of the former municipal plant nursery, combining living, education, care, and nature conservation.
The existing fabric, including the greenhouses, seedbeds, and wild green spaces, shapes the design. The characteristic sloped roofs become a design motif, while generous green spaces invite the landscape to flow into the neighborhood.
At the heart of the quarter lies the ‚Werkhof' – a vibrant hub with workshops, gardens, a canteen, and programs offered by the Montag Foundation and the Neue Stadtgärtnerei initiative. Care facilities and a café complement this communal enter. The residential buildings follow the north-south orientation of the existing layout. The timber frame construction allows for flexible layouts and supports diverse living concepts. Shared outdoor spaces encourage neighborhood interaction.
A green belt with wild zones, large trees, and seedbeds links the neighborhood to the landscape, fosters biodiversity, and invites exploration along an adventure trail.

The design is based on the historical elements of Münster's cultural landscape and incorporates them into the spatial concept. Starting from the waterway, a carefully configured open space framework of landscape and park areas with site-specific focal points and functions structures the space and forms the basis for an attractive and future-proof model district. A combination of a high mix of uses for revitalization and open-use structures for flexible development
forms the structural backbone of an adaptable and sustainable urban quarter. New ideas of living, sharing and working together will become a living reality here.

The open space concept pursues a careful interlocking of landscape and urban development, in which the natural topography and existing biotope structures are integrated into the urban development. Starting from the waterway, the landscape flows through the entire design area and connects the new buildings with their surroundings. This creates a harmonious interplay between open cultural landscape, urban life and natural design. The focus here is on the use of rainwater, which is integrated into the open spaces not only functionally but also in terms of design.
The mobility concept is based on the promotion of eco-mobility with a clear focus on public transport, cycling and walking and thus contributes to reducing emissions, increasing quality of life and climate-resilient development of the
neighborhood.

The proposed neighbourhood combines compact urban living with generous landscape access. Two distinct spatial characters define the overall structure:

1. Ems-Karree, an urban block structure anchored by a central neighbourhood square, providing space for local amenities, working and community uses.

2. Ems-Gärten, a residential area of green courtyards and open structures with a direct link to the restored Ems river landscape.

A public axis connects the main road to the southern riverside. This spine creates a coherent sequence of urban spaces and green corridors, ending in the Deichterrasse – a central public landscape element with promenade, playground and open lawn.
The urban figure responds to topography and noise with a robust perimeter edge towards the Münsterdamm and a gradual opening towards the Ems floodplain. Different housing typologies and compact building forms allow for a mix of uses and flexible living models.
The open space concept merges urban squares, shared courtyards and riverside landscape into a continuous network. The Ems cycle path links the neighbourhood to regional routes and reinforces the experience of nature as part of everyday life.

Hanover's Vahrenwald district is on the move. The development of the previously isolated area around the Musikzentrum and the reconnection with its surroundings offer the opportunity to act as a catalyst for sustainable neighbourhood development in the surrounding and beyond - as an exciting productive quarter for cultural industries and urban production, as a green corridor that connects and improves the urban climate and as an open, inviting urban space for play, sport and exercise, especially for children and young people.

In terms of urban space, the neighbourhood has two central qualities. On one side, the urban space is characterised by the typical 'Vahrenwald block' - clearly structured spaces, characterised by residential use and protected greenery in the inner courtyards, but also a lack of public green, recreational and play areas. On the other side, the railway line borders the neighbourhood - a strong barrier effect, noise pollution, but also biotope structures worthy of protection and plenty of space for previously underrepresented uses and new ideas.

A targeted opening towards the neighbourhood and a diverse mix of uses will turn the site into an inclusive meeting place that combines commerce, housing, culture, education and social participation. Low-threshold cultural and leisure activities not only promote creativity and equal opportunities, but also strengthen the residents' sense of belonging. By reflecting on different planning scenarios, an overall concept was developed that focuses on resilient, phased urban development, utilises the potential of the existing buildings and anticipates the dynamics of the local cultural scene.

The transformation of Trnavské Mýto into a dynamic cultural and urban hub is entering its next phase. With the building permit secured, Istropolis—designed by CITYFÖRSTER and KCAP in collaboration with Immocap—will break ground in summer 2025.

The project will introduce a state-of-the-art concert and congress hall, modern residences, and high-quality office spaces. The 3,000-person venue will host diverse cultural and business events, featuring in-the-round seating and multi-event flexibility. Offices will include a grand atria and flexible workspaces, while the residences will be nestled within green courtyards and pedestrian-friendly streets.

Istropolis sets new standards in sustainable urban development, integrating passive climate solutions, energy-efficient design, and biodiverse public spaces with 147 trees, 70 local plant species, and dedicated cycling infrastructure. Long overlooked despite its central location, Trnavské Mýto will soon be revitalized with green promenades, fountains, and a lively public square, supporting markets, gatherings, and everyday life.

With construction set to begin, Istropolis moves from vision to reality, shaping the future of Bratislava through architecture, sustainability, and vibrant public life.

The concept identifies three potential areas for careful urban extension: two urban neighbourhoods adjoining Feldmoching and Ludwigsfeld, and one landscape-oriented neighbourhood north of the Fasanerie. Areas of high landscape value such as Feldmoching North/West, the Obermoos and the Schrederwiesen remain undeveloped. The new neighbourhoods connect sensitively to the existing urban fabric, with open spaces acting as linking elements. A broad range of housing types strengthens social mix and creates long-term perspectives for existing residents. Local supply facilities as well as new social and educational infrastructure complement areas that are currently underserved.

The mobility concept relieves existing neighbourhoods by prioritising public transport, cycling and walking. The "Landscape Tram" connects neighbourhoods and recreational destinations with the regional public transport network, while compact districts offer additional options such as car sharing, bike sharing and micro-mobility.

The landscape concept builds on the productive character of the moor and heath landscape, structured by park corridors and a fine-grained network of paths. Lakes, avenues and riparian zones provide continuity and orientation. The management of rainwater and groundwater becomes a strategic component of a co-productive landscape, integrating retention areas, greywater reuse, soil-sensitive land management and rewetting strategies.