innstadt brewery – Conversion of a former brewery complex into an urban neighbourhood

team: PASEL-K Architects with Friedl & Partner
size: 17.000 m² BGF
perimeter core area: 2 ha
location: Passau, Germany
date: 2015-18
role: Urban design, masterplan and architectural design
status: Urban development framwork
awards:  1^st prize Competition

An the fringe of the historical centre of Passau with a stunning view overlooking the old city, the cathedral, the castle and the Maria-Hilf monastery the project marks the transition from the high-dense medieval city fabric into the surrounding landscape with the typical gentle green hills of Lower Bavaria.

The project converts the former Innstadt brewery complex into a lively, urban neighbourhood. The housing area also comprises office and commercial spaces, a hotel, a medical centre, a Restaurant with a beer garden, the preservation of historical monuments and the overall landscape design, that connects the projects into its ecological, natural surrounding on one side and the urban tissue on the other. The urban connections are established by means of a network of formal and informal footpaths and a sequence of public squares that relate back the spatial notations of the adjacent medieval city.