The division present in Strasbourg’s urban tissue is a direct result of the fortifications systems that were implemented, reshaped and mostly demolished between the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries. As a border city between France and Germany, it was always under the threat o
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The division present in Strasbourg’s urban tissue is a direct result of the fortifications systems that were implemented, reshaped and mostly demolished between the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries. As a border city between France and Germany, it was always under the threat of a sudden attack. My proposal is a bridging structure that connects in a straight line city centre with a green belt, a remnant of the former fortifications, and adds to it with a botanical and an open garden.
The heterogeneity is typical for the surrounding and the proposal, which together allows creating a series of “threshold moments” with an elevated passage. It encourages you to explore the unknown other side and reinforces the feeling of rediscovering some exceptional, forgotten quality of the city.
