Goals, concepts and perspectives The Grasbrook district September 20221 5 3 7 2 6 4 Contents The new Grasbrook district What makes Grasbrook special: Goals and concepts Neighborhoods grow together: Urban design concept Green city by the water: Landscape concept A city for all: Use concept Everything on the doorstep: The ten-minute neighborhood The resilient city: Sustainability concept 5 13 19 35 47 61 71Grasbrook is being created in a spectacular waterside location, with a mix of diverse housing, new worlds of work, sport and leisure options, and places for social interaction. It will be a place where people will be happy to live and work and that will open up opportunities for a wide variety of perspectives. Designed to be a neighborhood of short distances, Grasbrook offers an invitation to become part of a living mobility revolution. Attractive open spaces, parks and promenades will inspire people to experience the neighborhood on foot or by bike. Through intelligent mobility facilities in the neighborhoods, combined with a carefully considered integration with higher-level transportation systems, we are making ourselves future- proof and easily reachable by people who live and work in Grasbrook or simply want to visit it and experience all that it has to offer. This brochure is an invitation to join in the discovery of this place for the future and become part of its development. Dr Andreas Kleinau CEO, HafenCity Hamburg GmbH “Welcome to Grasbrook. A new district that will change our view of Hamburg long-term is emerging in a central location in the midst of the city. Grasbrook is a connector. It connects the inner-city with this Elbe island and so makes a contribution to the “Leap across the Elbe”. It also connects the neighborhoods on the Elbe island with one another. Veddel will get the neighbors and the integration it needs. Grasbrook also connects our and your ideas of the way we want to live and work in tomorrow’s world – in a livable city.“ Impressions of the promenades in Hafenbeckenpark (Visualization: Herzog & de Meuron) (Photo: Bina Engel)5 1 The new Grasbrook district View of the new Grasbrook district from the south (Visualization: moka-studio GbR)The new Grasbrook district 7 Hamburg has been growing for years, both at its fringes and within its borders. The repurposing of former port, railroad or industrial sites enables urban growth without the need to seal new areas. In this way, potential for sustainable urban development close to the center and offering mixed neighborhoods for working and living is being exploited. Short distances make a contribution to the urban mobility revolution and conserve the valuable soil resource. HafenCity is the best known example of such conversion projects in Hamburg, but reconstruction has begun too in the neighboring districts dominated by major industrial and traffic complexes. In the area around the Elbe Bridges, Hamburg is changing its appearance unmistakably. Grasbrook, a further port area, plays a decisive role here. Together with its immediate neighbor, Veddel, Grasbrook is the final missing component in the “Leap across the Elbe”, an urban development strategy whose goal is to better integrate the Elbe islands and the neighborhoods to the south of the River Elbe into the city as a whole. For years urban developers have had their eye on the Elbe island of Kleiner Grasbrook, where Grasbrook district is now to be built. In 2008 there was a proposal to move parts of Hamburg University here. In 2015, discussions centered on staging the 2024 Olympics here and relocating port operations. Then, in 2017, the idea of a new Grasbrook district was unveiled, to be a combination of urban neighborhoods and port uses compatible with city life. A new green city district on the waterfront is emerging in Hamburg: Grasbrook. It will provide space for 6,000 people to live and 16,000 to work. Situated opposite the city center and right next to the port, Grasbrook offers the unique opportunity to build a piece of the future while meeting the major challenges of our age – from tackling climate change and conserving resources to social cohesion and new worlds of work. The new Grasbrook district 2022 aerial photograph following demolition of the Überseezentrum (Photo: Photofrizz)Next >