b'MUDD 24 URBAN NETWORKS|URBAN GATEWAYSFigure 1.HafenCity Hamburg - view south over the initial stages of the project, with the traditional warehouse district on the west. Image source: HafenCity Hamburg GmbH/fotofrizz, courtesy of ASTOC Architects & Planners GmbH.terminal at Altenwerder (about 10 km downstream from the oldfragmentation, resulting in wild new patchwork cities. ASTOC docks of the HafenCity site). Cross-financing Altenwerder wasfurther stated: Therefore, urban developments most urgent a trade-off deal between the urban development ambitions oftask would be to transcend all the egoisms that exist, and to the municipality and the imperatives of the harbour economy.design and develop a sustainable and coherent vision which, The almost fully automated terminal opened in 2002 - 100 hafor all its positive qualities, avoids the folly of becoming a stale in extent with an annual throughput of 3 million TEU, it is ratedcorset (Meyer 2011, p.123). the worlds most innovative and powerful container terminal (Lieber 2018). The plan projects a fine grain horizontal and vertical mix of uses and outlines the development of 10 city quarters in As a government entity HCH has to prioritize public benefitstrict sequential order, each with an individual identity. At the alongside strong investment returns. A set of institutionalsame time, it allows for integration with existing harbourfront arrangements of checks and balances involving governmentdevelopment - including a 19th century warehouse district representatives bodies and groups at City and district levels- and for connection with the inner city through visual axes is designed to achieve a high degree of public accountability.and sequences of public spaces. The spatial and visual impact of the built form generated by a relatively high-density 137147 Urban design floor space ratio of more than 3.0 is generally offset by the For the envisaged 25-year development period, a combinationexpanse of the water areas and the scale of the surrounding of fixed basic principles and operationally manageable ruleswarehouse district. The height of residential buildings is took shape in a new form of a flexible and open masterplanlimited to 25 metres, in line with the gable springing points at the level of the entire district. This masterplan emergedof the traditional warehouses. The height of commercial from a competition won by a Dutch/German team (Keesbuildings is limited to 30 metres, set by the ridgelines of the Christiaanse/ASTOC/Hamburgplan) in 2000.warehouses. Occasional exceptions to these height limits are allowed, up to a maximum 70 metres, if the urban silhouette As ASTOC principal, Markus Neppl pointed out the economicis deemed to be enriched by the proposal. and architectural tendencies in todays society lead to MUDD 24 - Urban Gateways | Urban Networks - Fukuoka Fukuoka design 8pt.indd 24 26/11/2019 5:07:04 PM'