The masterplan for Hamburg's main roads is here!
The Senate of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg adopted the "Magistralen Masterplan" on 16 July 2024.
The Senate of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg today adopted the "Magistralen Masterplan", which was drawn up by ASTOC ARCHITECTS AND PLANNERS together with urban catalyst, berchtoldkrass space&options, ARGUS Stadt und Verkehr and bloomimages on behalf of the city.
Hamburg's arterial roads are main thoroughfares and at the same time places to live and work. They are subject to enormous changes due to a wide range of requirements. With a city-wide masterplan, Hamburg is the first metropolis to address the future role of its 12 arterial roads.
Dr Peter Tschentscher, First Mayor of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg, sums up the Masterplan Magistralen in his foreword:
„Hamburg's arterial roads will be a focal point of the Senate's urban development programme in the coming decades. Twelve main transport axes connect the inner city with the outer districts and the neighbouring metropolitan region. They offer good transport infrastructure, housing, commercial space and versatile public spaces that are to be restructured and used for the further modernisation of Hamburg. In future, the Magistralen are to be developed into attractive urban spaces beyond their transport significance. The masterplan shows their potential, describes visions for the future and identifies specific measures to achieve them. It thus pursues the strategy of preserving Hamburg's historically evolved structure, but utilising the infrastructure more efficiently and gaining new areas for housing, commerce and public life.“
With the International Building Forum 2019, the Magistralen have once again become the focus of urban development. The Magistralen Masterplan is a strategic plan that brings together tasks and requirements. At the same time, it describes the transformation of concrete places and specific situations along the 160 kilometres of Magistralen, which could hardly be more diverse. Nine so-called spatial types were identified, which can be found repeatedly along the Magistralen. Based on design principles, idealised target images were developed as guidelines for further planning work. The Magistralen Masterplan builds on previous urban development strategies, provides new impetus and makes the Magistralen the central area of action for integrated urban development.
The Magistralen Masterplan can be downloaded as a PDF file from the hamburg.de Website. The press release from 16 July 2024 can also be found there.
The ASTOC project team: Darleen Ertelt, Annika Harkemper, Prof Markus Neppl, Daniel Richter, Britta Schümmer.
ASTOC has already earned an excellent reputation in and for Hamburg in other urban master and framework planning projects, most recently with the framework planning for the Science City Hamburg Bahrenfeld, Campus West (50 ha, together with WES LandschaftsArchitektur and buro Happold), previously the HafenCity Hamburg masterplan (153 ha, together with KCAP and Hamburgplan) and the Diebsteich urban masterplan (126 ha, together with arbos Freiraumplanung, ARGUS Stadt und Verkehr, Evers & Küssner and steg).
