the longing for the ideal development of the heterogenous substance outside the city center of rastatt includes the precondition of an analysis, acceptance, definition and interpretation of the existing.

the concept is based upon the re-formulation of the baroque axis and the connection to the city. the formulation articulates both a central and a linear impulse. to activate the axis, the infrastructural fractures were defined as potential. the main transversal connection becomes the active strip, the interface of uses.

therefore the recommendation of the project balances between space and event, presence and future.