Innovation Campus
Innovation Campus
Mixed Use · Residential · Office · Culture · Education
Mixed Use · Residential · Office · Culture · Education
Program
Located on the former industrial site beside Hattersheim station, the proposal develops approximately 9,035 m² across two coordinated mixed-use interventions within the emerging innovation quarter.
The programme combines parking, retail and café uses, adaptable offices, co-working, housing, a kindergarten, a productive rooftop greenhouse, and an elevated play landscape. Together, the buildings were conceived as demonstrators for new relationships between work, living, learning, cultivation, and environmental infrastructure.
Client
IFC Group
Location
Hattersheim am Main, Germany
Surface
9035 m²
Date Started
2021
Project Status
Proposed
Architecture/Design
Homann Architects
Role
Design and Conception
Rights/Credit
Project rights remain with the respective office/client
Building as Testbed
Innovation is embedded within the architectural organisation rather than applied as an additional technological layer. Adaptable floorplates, independent programme zones, productive roofs, planted terraces, and shared infrastructure form one interconnected framework.
The proposal therefore operates simultaneously as workplace, neighbourhood resource, and inhabitable prototype for the wider transformation of the former industrial site.
Quater Framework
Quater Framework
Quater Framework
The project is conceived as a coordinated urban ensemble rather than a singular object. Existing and new volumes are connected through courtyards, pedestrian routes, planted roofs, and a continuous landscape structure extending between the railway edge and the surrounding residential fabric.
Within this framework, the mixed-use building and the kindergarten complex become two distinct programmatic anchors, each contributing a different form of public and collective life to the quarter.
The project is conceived as a coordinated urban ensemble rather than a singular object. Existing and new volumes are connected through courtyards, pedestrian routes, planted roofs, and a continuous landscape structure extending between the railway edge and the surrounding residential fabric.
Within this framework, the mixed-use building and the kindergarten complex become two distinct programmatic anchors, each contributing a different form of public and collective life to the quarter.
The project is conceived as a coordinated urban ensemble rather than a singular object. Existing and new volumes are connected through courtyards, pedestrian routes, planted roofs, and a continuous landscape structure extending between the railway edge and the surrounding residential fabric.
Within this framework, the mixed-use building and the kindergarten complex become two distinct programmatic anchors, each contributing a different form of public and collective life to the quarter.
MIXED-USE URBAN ANCHOR
MIXED-USE URBAN ANCHOR
MIXED-USE URBAN ANCHOR
LEARNING & WORKPLACE LANDSCAPE
Mixed Use Prototype
Mixed Use Prototype
The first building condenses parking, retail, offices, co-working, and housing into a compact vertical stack. Each programme remains independently accessible while sharing a common structural and circulation framework.
Above, planted residential terraces and a productive greenhouse extend the building into an inhabited roofscape. Visible from the railway, this illuminated crown gives the quarter a recognisable identity while connecting work, domestic life, and urban cultivation.
A 200-unit residential project exploring communal living through layered courtyards and spatial transitions. The design createsa gradient from public to private, usingthreshold spaces and material shifts todefine territories
The first building condenses parking, retail, offices, co-working, and housing into a compact vertical stack. Each programme remains independently accessible while sharing a common structural and circulation framework.
Above, planted residential terraces and a productive greenhouse extend the building into an inhabited roofscape. Visible from the railway, this illuminated crown gives the quarter a recognisable identity while connecting work, domestic life, and urban cultivation.
The first building condenses parking, retail, offices, co-working, and housing into a compact vertical stack. Each programme remains independently accessible while sharing a common structural and circulation framework.
Above, planted residential terraces and a productive greenhouse extend the building into an inhabited roofscape. Visible from the railway, this illuminated crown gives the quarter a recognisable identity while connecting work, domestic life, and urban cultivation.
Vertical Mix & Independent Access
Vertical Mix & Independent Access
Vertical Mix & Independent Access
Separate circulation cores allow retail, workplaces, and housing to function autonomously within one compact volume. Open lower floorplates support changing commercial and office layouts, while the residential levels adopt a more regular and divisible spatial grid.
The vertical programme is expressed architecturally through a transparent public base, flexible intermediate floors, planted living terraces, and the greenhouse crown.
Separate circulation cores allow retail, workplaces, and housing to function autonomously within one compact volume. Open lower floorplates support changing commercial and office layouts, while the residential levels adopt a more regular and divisible spatial grid.
The vertical programme is expressed architecturally through a transparent public base, flexible intermediate floors, planted living terraces, and the greenhouse crown.
Separate circulation cores allow retail, workplaces, and housing to function autonomously within one compact volume. Open lower floorplates support changing commercial and office layouts, while the residential levels adopt a more regular and divisible spatial grid.
The vertical programme is expressed architecturally through a transparent public base, flexible intermediate floors, planted living terraces, and the greenhouse crown.
LEARNING & WORKPLACE LANDSCAPE
LEARNING & WORKPLACE LANDSCAPE
Learning, Work & Shared Roofscape
The second intervention combines parking, foyer and café functions, offices, and a kindergarten within a layered mixed-use structure.
The programme extends over the adjoining existing building through a 1,480 m² rooftop play landscape. This elevated garden gives the kindergarten protected access to light, movement, planting, and outdoor learning while transforming the existing roof into an active part of the quarter.
The second intervention combines parking, foyer and café functions, offices, and a kindergarten within a layered mixed-use structure.
The programme extends over the adjoining existing building through a 1,480 m² rooftop play landscape. This elevated garden gives the kindergarten protected access to light, movement, planting, and outdoor learning while transforming the existing roof into an active part of the quarter.
The second intervention combines parking, foyer and café functions, offices, and a kindergarten within a layered mixed-use structure.
The programme extends over the adjoining existing building through a 1,480 m² rooftop play landscape. This elevated garden gives the kindergarten protected access to light, movement, planting, and outdoor learning while transforming the existing roof into an active part of the quarter.
Autonomous Uses, Shared Structure
Autonomous Uses, Shared Structure
Autonomous Uses, Shared Structure
Independent cores allow the kindergarten, offices, café, and parking areas to operate separately while remaining part of one structural system.
The stepped section introduces terraces, daylight, and planted outdoor spaces between the different programme layers. Rather than separating learning and work into isolated buildings, the proposal allows them to coexist through carefully controlled thresholds and shared landscape infrastructure.
Independent cores allow the kindergarten, offices, café, and parking areas to operate separately while remaining part of one structural system.
The stepped section introduces terraces, daylight, and planted outdoor spaces between the different programme layers. Rather than separating learning and work into isolated buildings, the proposal allows them to coexist through carefully controlled thresholds and shared landscape infrastructure.
Independent cores allow the kindergarten, offices, café, and parking areas to operate separately while remaining part of one structural system.
The stepped section introduces terraces, daylight, and planted outdoor spaces between the different programme layers. Rather than separating learning and work into isolated buildings, the proposal allows them to coexist through carefully controlled thresholds and shared landscape infrastructure.
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Architecture, design and spatial investigations
across built, unbuilt and collaborative work.
Based in Nuremberg, Germany
Works across Europe, US, India and beyond
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