3rd Prize: Competition Fritschle Residential Development, Ravensburg
The design is divided into six individual buildings, each based on a hexagonal, non-directional floor plan that allows them to be freely arranged across the site. This creates spaces, openings, and narrower passages. The building edges establish changing visual relationships, both from the outside and from the internal open spaces. The result is a loosely arranged development that follows the contours of the hillside.
The shop forms the ground-level base of the building situated highest along the road. This arrangement allows the shop façade to be integrated into the overall design. Its position on the site plan enables deliveries to be organized without disruption and without creating visual or functional restrictions for the development. A small forecourt marks this public area. The underground parking entrance for shop users is located directly next to the main entrance, making it easy to identify.
Building Section – East–West
Access
Connectivity within a Site
All main access routes lead from Hinzistoblerstraße. The underground parking for residents and the customer parking spaces in the shop’s underground garage are clearly separated from one another. All residential buildings are connected to the underground garage on the lower level. Access to the existing residential building is integrated into the open space.
The pedestrian routes follow the slope, providing a connection to the wider network of paths. The development’s internal open space consists of a sequence of widened areas and stepped changes in level. The soil cover above the underground garage allows for extensive planting. The plazas form small communal gathering places within the development. Seating steps and stair connections are integrated into the different levels.
A centrally located playground is situated on the middle level of the site. Along the property boundary, the development is landscaped with larger trees, which are planted outside the footprint of the underground garage. The entrances to the buildings feature paved surfaces that interlock laterally with the green spaces. This clearly separates public and private paths while embedding the residential buildings within the greenery.
Typical Floor Plan – Apartment Layout
The different apartment types are distributed throughout the buildings in a mixed arrangement, allowing for a diverse mix of residents. Each apartment has a well-designed private outdoor area. The central access core is efficiently planned and gains a welcoming sense of spaciousness through a widened area and a skylight.
The horizontal façade design reinforces the impression of the buildings’ stepped arrangement embedded in the hillside. The top floors are designed as recessed levels. The continuous horizontal frame is retained on these upper levels, while the building volume gradually breaks up toward the top.
Building Services
The building-services systems are to be supplied from a central plant serving the entire development. A double-height basement has been provided for the technical systems in the centrally located residential building on the southern slope. From this central plant, all buildings will be supplied with the required utilities.
Heat will be generated using heat pumps. Peak loads will be covered by either a gas condensing boiler or a pellet heating system. As much of the required electricity as possible will be generated by photovoltaic panels installed on the roofs.
The overall project can be implemented in two construction phases. The western section, located downhill, is to be built first because it contains the central building-services plant.
