CELLULAR URBAN +

Residential blocks in Rosenstein, though located near the city center of Stuttgart, are not considered 'urban'. Lacking convenient access to urban services and other necessary infrastructures, the general ambience of Rosenstein residential blocks is rather peace but not vivid due to the absence of the complexity and diversity of urban environment. In the east of the site, the land currently occupied by railways will be transformed into new building blocks and green areas. These newly-developed areas are, expectedly, much more connected to the richness and energy of urban life because of their direct access to the future Stuttgart 21 Complex to the south.

The proposed new residence serves as a 'bridge' and 'linkage' of the 'not-urban' residence blocks and the 'highly-urban' future developing areas. Directing streets and their publicness and openness into the building intead of around it could possibly allow more potentials for fun, vitality and interaction among both residents and other citizens. The extension of the street, a public 'corridor' with multiple functions, winding and stretching upwards in the residence complex, supported by 4 vertical cores providing different ways of vertical movement, incises the building into small residence clusters, creating multiple overhead semi-outdoor public spaces along with enlarged nodes on the corridor itself. Hence, a stage of a more 'urban' life is formed.