REVIT Heritage Report.pdf

Torfaen County Borough Council
REVIT: A Review of the Conservation of Industrial Heritage Assets on Brownfield Sites
4.5.4 The Stuttgart 21 project is based on Deutsche Bahn’s (Germany’s Railway)
plans to remodel the train infrastructure in Stuttgart, leaving the city’s central
railway station and approximately 109 hectares of railway land redundant. The
railway line will now become part of a high speed route between Paris,
Strasbourg, Stuttgart, Munich and Budapest. Stuttgart station will be
converted from a terminus to a through-station opening-up the links to other
regions. As a result of this upgrade, new the railway lines and new station
building are being transferred in to tunnels below the old terminus, releasing
the existing station building and the surrounding area for re-development.
4.5.5 Then main station building was built between 1914 and 1928 in Arnulf-Klett-
Platz under the architectural control of Professor Paul Bonatz with Friedrich E.
Scholer. The building was constructed using the relatively new materials of
concrete and steel and was decorated with coarse chalk tiles.
4.5.6 In 1910 Paul Bonatz won the competition to design the railway terminus, which
he built as a grand, austere stone structure which links nineteenth-century
eclecticism and the Spartan approach of Modernity and Albert Speer's
monumental Classicism.
4.5.7 The historic Stuttgart railway station building will be retained and refurbished
and become the focal point of the new inner city mixed development area
which aims to attract services industries, business, culture and a high quality of
living provided by linking the green areas through a series of green corridors.
4.5.8 An international competition to re-develop the site was held in 1997 and
construction started 2000 with the new station not expected to be finished until
2013, allowing further changes in the development proposals. In particular,
relationships between the Bonatz building, the new piazza over the station, the
park and the proposed first buildings of Stuttgart 21 are being studied in an
attempt to improve the centre of the city.
4.5.9 The architects Ingenhoven Overdiek and Partner, who won the competition,
proposed a new underground station below the railway station with a design
that creates a building 12m below ground level. The design proposes to
stretch the Castle Gardens Park, which is adjacent to the existing station, over
the top of the new underground tracks and platforms. The new station will
form a continuous station hall illuminated by natural light that will fall into the
space through large circular ‘light eyes’. These 'light eyes'will make the
subterranean station visible to passers-by above ground, linking historic
building and the new station to the old and new sections of the City.
4.5.10 The plan will create a station square and from here the Cannstatter
Promenade, an extension to the Königstrasse, will provide access to the new
quarter. Around the new square it is proposed to construct new office
buildings, hotels or a museum dedicated to the theme of travel in order to
‘pump-prime’ the development of the urban quarter with attractive public
buildings.
4.5.11 The redundant Bonatz station will become a public meeting place with
restaurants and shops, and the floor of its concourse opened-up to make
connection with the new platforms via bridges. Access to the bridges will also
be provided via large curved glass atria.
4.5.12 The main station is a protected historic building under the Inventory of
Monuments in Stuttgart north in 1987 (Landeshauptstadt Stuttgart Stadtbezirk
Stuttgart-Nord, 2001) and will be retained as a building of character.
4.5.13 For the rebuilding of the main station, the following aims are set out as:
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