Rooftop Greenhouse: Two Different Uses in a New Way

Kuehn Malvezzi, Middle Density, Politics and economics, Project, Technology and fabrication, Territory and mobility, Urban Paradigms

Active Public Spaces, Circulation, Courtyard, Density, Energy production, Germany, Greenhouse, Innovation, Local economy, Local production, Mixed use, Mixed-use buildings, Oberhausen, Office building, Project, Public Space, Rain Water Harvesting, Rooftop, Sustainable, Symbolic context, Technology, Urban Agriculture, Urban Development, Urban landscape, Urban management, Urban planning, Vertical greenery, Warehouse, Waste management, Working Space

Photography: hiepler, brunier,

The historical center of Oberhausen raises the question of how centrality, urban density and public spaces beyond commercial uses can be realized in light of economic structural change. As an answer to this question, the city’s property management company OGM (Oberhausener Gebäudemanagement GmbH) has proposed a development that integrates two very different uses in a new way.