Hoyerswerda „Neustadt“
Hoyerswerda is currently experiencing deconstruction of residential buildings on a level that no one would have thought possible in previous years. Entire housing complexes are disappearing. The city's aim is to maintain a compact, green, modern town with functional technical and social infrastructure through urban conversion.
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Context
Source: Stadt Hoyerswerda
During the industrialisation from 1955 to 1981, Hoyerswerda experienced a population growth to around 71,000 inhabitants. The new town - Neustadt - was built as a residential area for the workers at the 'Schwarze Pumpe' coal and gas works.
Due to more and more people moving away and a decrease in births, the population has reduced to around 42,000 since 1989. This has resulted in sustained unoccupied housing which can only be eliminated through extensive deconstruction measures. The highest vacancy level can be seen in the new town. Despite the deconstruction of 5040 housing units so far, there are still 3600 vacant housing units in the overall city today. Further wide-scale demolition from outside to inside is planned. In order to be able to maintain a livable city, well-thought-out planning is required which harmonises the needs of the housing industry, the city's technical utilities and all the other urban components.
Project description
Source: Stadt Hoyerswerda
The 'Integriertes Stadtentwicklungskonzept' (integrated urban development concept), 'INSEK', forms the basis for the new urban development in Hoyerswerda. Besides the stock evaluation, Hoyerswerda's urban development goals are shown. The integrated urban development concept, with its living, economy and infrastructure parts, is the guideline for urban development in Hoyerswerda. It defines the necessary deconstruction in each housing complex as agreed with housing companies and city utilities.
The following examples of demolition, new building and conversion show the variety of the aims contained in the urban development concept:
Hoyerswerda had to deal with the over-aging and shrinkage of the city population from a very early stage. A tower block was reduced by 3 floors and redesigned as housing for the elderly as early as 1997.
The city and the housing companies reacted to the ever increasing vacancy by beginning with demolition in the year 2000. In order to counteract the out-migration into surrounding areas of the city, four city villas were built on a demolition area. These correspond to the citizens' higher demands for new, alternative and sophisticated housing on the future urban fringe.
Through partial deconstruction in the housing complexes close to the centre, a de-compaction took place which created space for car parks and a more pleasant living environment. The remaining housing blocks have almost all been redeveloped and the surroundings appropriately redesigned.
In housing complex 5, which is considered as stable from an urban planning perspective and is enhanced by small-scale deconstruction, house construction with new living facilities has been created on the site of a demolished children's day care centre. The new housing is made up of three houses with a total of 30 flats. In the third house, a cube-shaped building, there is a community centre which is commonly used by the neighbourhood's inhabitants.
In 2005, the "Neustädter Eck" home for senior citizens was created out of a former office tower block at an important urban development hub area. Here, there are over twenty barrier-free two-room flats and space available for services, community and basic medical services.
Today, the large-scale demolition from outside to inside is continuing and ever more free spaces are appearing which, as with the existing green areas in the city, are to be revitalised and upgraded. The importance for the interweaving of the residential areas, and its direct importance for the living environment in general, should not be underestimated. Therefore, Hoyerswerda wishes to develop a new open space landscape with direct relation to the surrounding natural landscape without trying to create a typical park or garden landscape. Also a student workshop took place in spring 2005 as a first activity in Hoyerswerda under the management of the Institute for Landscape Architecture at Dresden's Technical University. In this, a survey of the urban situation on the east urban fringe was carried out. The arising project suggestions for an open space concept were presented to the public in an exhibition. The institute's next step is to develop from these suggestions an open space study for the landscaping of the areas where buildings once stood.
Project chronology
Year | Event |
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1997 | Tower block reduced by 3 complete storeys (Lipetzker Platz 1, 2) |
1999 | Beginning of the coordination of interests for producing an urban developmental overhaul concept |
1999 | Deconstruction of a primary school (Schöpsdorfer Straße 39) |
2000 | Demolition of a housing block containing 60 housing units (Schöpsdorfer Straße 8-11) |
2000 | Removal of a tower block (Bautzener Allee 32 b-d); some concrete slabs reused for building a single-family house |
2000 | Demolition of a building (L.-Herrmann-Str. 30-50) on whose site four city villas were erected |
2001/2002 | Construction of city villas with 33 housing units as residential buildings or residential/commercial buildings |
2001 to 2006 | Wide-scale deconstruction in the housing complexes 8 and 9 |
2003 | Integriertes Stadtentwicklungskonzept (INSEK) - Integrated Urban Development Concept |
2003/2004 | Construction of "Grüner Hain" (Hufelandstraße) |
2005 | Conversion of an office block into a senior citizens' home named "Neustädter Eck“ |
2005 | Project suggestions for an open space concept |
2006 | Tower block in the new town centre in conversion as a dominant construction for attractive living with integrated utilities (Stadtpromenade 11) |
Aims
Source: Stadt Hoyerswerda
- Eliminating urban development deficits
- Developing a sustainable urban structure
- Stock-oriented stabilisation and development of the Neustadt (new town) district.
- Deconstruction of residential buildings and infrastructure elements from outside to inside
- Preservation and development of the inner city centre
- Improvement of the townscape through creation of places to spend time in the city, differentiated building facade appearances, enticing sequence of streets and squares, mixture of commerce and housing
- Creating a balanced relationship of the settlement structures between each urban district
- Restructuring the new town centre through supplementary re-building and creating new open areas
- Conversion of the city's social infrastructure oriented to the needs of the changed population structure
Types of measures
Source: Stadt Hoyerswerda
- Deconstruction adapted to the living space requirements
- Update to the urban development planning concept 'SEKo'
- Specialist advice from the 'Stadtwerkstadt' (city workshop) specialist advisory group
- Upgrading measures in the living environment
- Landscaping the open areas resulting from deconstruction and demolition
- Adaptation of the technical infrastructure to the city's shrinkage
Innovations
Source: Stadt Hoyerswerda
All the active parties involved in the city conversion, such as the housing companies, the utility companies, businesses, banks, associations, engineers and also city councillors, the senior mayor, mayors and administration employees contributed to the implementation of the Hoyerswerda city conversion as part of the urban development forum. With consideration to the cost-effectiveness, affordability and the deconstruction concept of "from outside to inside", every deconstruction property was commonly agreed.
Deconstruction, conversion and new construction of buildings with open space design help to increase the variety and attractiveness of the housing offerings and thus strengthen the people of Hoyerswerda's feeling of quality of life.
Sources
- Stadtentwicklungskonzepte Wohnen und Wirtschaft (urban development concepts - living and economy) at http://www.hoyerswerda.de Link. Stadtentwicklungskonzept INSEK (city development concept)
- Regionalisierte Bevölkerungsprognose, statistisches Landesamt Sachsen (regionalized population forecast, Saxony state statistics office), January 2003
- Wohnungswirtschaftliche Standortanalyse für die Gemeinde Hoyerswerda (housing industry location analysis for the community of Hoyerswerda), Kühne/Lösche/Wunderwald, 2003
Further information
The projekt site ist to be found at postal code: 02977 - town: Hoyerswerda - street: Scadoer Straße 26.
Poject site on Google-Maps: https://goo.gl/maps/3XF3rbseQCA2
Last update: 21.03.2018