Change Factory

Detail

TYPOLOGY: Competition / Office

COUNTRY: German

CITY: Eschweiler

YEAR: 2023

COMPETITION: Closed competition, 2^nd Prize

COLLABORATOR: wbp Landschaftsarchitekten GmbH, Bochum

GFA: 11.880 sqm

CLIENT: Stadt Eschweiler

The Change Factory is Eschweiler’s new green, flexible, and flood-resilient innovation hub.
Instead of one large block, it’s a cluster of pavilions, halls, and workspaces connected by a leafy promenade linking the city center to Drieschplatz. Reclaimed bricks, repurposed windows, and lush façades show a commitment to circular construction, while active roofs host orchards, gardens, sports areas, and solar panels. A contoured green ring and rain-retention meadows provide natural flood protection, turning resilience into a design feature. Inside, adaptable modular buildings offer space for events, co-working, research, and community life. Combining low-tech solutions with smart energy systems, the Change Factory sets a new standard for sustainable urban development.

siteplan

roof areas productive + versatile

green flood ring

office, south view

ground floor

multifunctional hall, south view

standard floor

multifunctional hall, elevation north

multifunctional hall, elevation east

multifunctional hall, elevation west

Dieze Training Centre

Detail

TYPOLOGY: Educational

COUNTRY: Germany

CITY: Castrop-Rauxel

YEAR: 1996

COMPETITION: 1994, First Prize

GFA: 3.000 sqm

CLIENT: GEWO, Castrop-Rauxel

PHOTOS: © Christian Richters

A branch of the Open University Hagen and a Women’s Retraining Centre – shared conference and seminar facilities. Anchor box plus geometric extensions. The alien conference element cantilevers acrobatically. Strict plan geometries evolve a three dimensional language of interlocking materials.

Diese training centre, Castrop Rauxel, foto, christian richters

Dieze training centre, Castrop Rauxel, plan, schwarzplan, lageplan

Dieze training centre, Castrop Rauxel, plan, ground floor, Erdgeschoss

Dieze training centre, Castrop Rauxel, plan, ground floor, obergeschoss

Dieze training centre, Castrop Rauxel, sketch, Peter Wilson, drawing, Zeichnung, Skizze, perspecitv, Perspektive

Napoli Bagnoli

Detail

TYPOLOGY: Competition / Area development / Masterplan

COUNTRY: Italy

CITY: Naples

YEAR: 2020

COMPETITION: Closed competition

COLLABORATORS: OTTAVIANI ASSOCIATI, GREENCURE landscape & healing gardens, Gianluca Peluffo&Partners Architettura srl, Nicola Gallinaro

The proposal is based on two complementary strategic choices: the interpretation of the park as a green flow, made up of a great variety of landscapes within which there are clearings that welcome the various episodes of industrial archeology, and the redesign of the seafront in continuity up to the island of Nisida, making it possible to expand the space for the beach and the Porto Turistico.

Napoli Bagnoli_Naples_Neapel_Masterplan_Gebietsentwicklung_Area development

Napoli Bagnoli_Naples_Neapel_Masterplan_Gebietsentwicklung_Area development_Collage

Napoli Bagnoli_Naples_Neapel_Masterplan_Gebietsentwicklung_Area development_Zip Line

Napoli Bagnoli_Naples_Neapel_Masterplan_Gebietsentwicklung_Area development_Drawing_Peter Wilsoni

Hotel New York_Rotterdam_Landscaping_Landschaftsplanung_Christian Richters

Landscaping Hotel NY

Detail

TYPOLOGY: Landscape

COUNTRY: The Netherlands

CITY: Rotterdam – Kop van Zuid

YEAR: 2006

CLIENT: City of Rotterdam (dS+U), Hotel New York partner

The former embarkation point for emigration to the New World – a ‘Holland/America’ theme. Two landscapes (intimate Dutch gardens and a prairie-like American event- space) are divided by a conceptual border. Large scale text (like a Steinberg drawing) is inlayed in the pavement. To date the Dutch side including the Hotel Terrace, Maaskant Pavilion, vent Funnels, playground and intimate Dutch gardens is complete. despite regular dockings of American warships the narrative landscape on the American side of the Dutch-Amerika border remains unexecuted.