Frankfurt Osthafen, Urban Study
At first glance Frankfurt’s Osthafen is a harbor installation familiar to us from many of the world’s cities. Only upon closer observation do the highly specific topographical and spatial characteristics of this site become visible. Our architectural and urban architectural suggestions have been developed out of this observation. The harbor installation has the shape of an island surrounding a middle pier. The South Pier looks like a finger closing the basins to the River Main and leading westward to the city’s Main Quay (Obermainkai, Eckhardtstrasse). This gesture, described in the topography in the shape of the south pier, carrying us toward and relating us to the existing city network to the west, is also expressed here in the proposed urban architectural concept: a tree-lined connection along both long sides of the river and the harbor basin. This is a green connection binding this new part of the city into the pre-existing paths and streets along the Main. The proposed development consists of pre-existing and new complementary buildings surrounding meandering courtyard spaces that open alternately to the north and the harbor basin and to the south to the River Main.
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