TRIOTOP industrial landscape park

The Triotop industrial estate on the outskirts of Cologne shows how sustainable modernity can grow out of respectful treatment of tradition. The open space we have designed is the stage for flexible architecture, protected landscape sections, networked living and working worlds, diversity, growth and change.

TRIOTOP is a commercial area bordering on a biotope, a sustainable synthesis of careful development, networking and integrative design. Conceptually, it follows the model of the neighbouring biotope by promoting diversity and synergies and offering spaces in which work and life can develop and transform in many ways. The architecture provides a framework for growth and change, housing for futures we do not know. The ensemble responds to new concepts of life, allows work, leisure and living to be linked, provides space for creative breaks and offers opportunities for networking in response to increasingly complex issues.
The urban design follows the desire for good proportions, human scale and variable, long-term rentable individual units. It transforms a brownfield site into high-quality urban space, literally bridges the boundary formed by the train line and the motorway, and creates a synthesis of nature and development.
The compact urban structure made it possible to keep large landscaped areas free of development and make them available to the public, as well as minimizing traffic areas. Noise-intensive businesses were located along the railway line and serve as a buffer zone to protect more noise-sensitive uses. In the thus protected inner area, living next to the park is possible.
The open spaces set the stage for architecture, uniting art and water with the rustle of grasses and waves of meadows. The integration into the surroundings and the public transport system enlivens the area and upgrades it to a neighbourhood that is visited, used or traversed by a broad public.
A design canon was developed for the open spaces of the overall Triotop project. Generous plaza designs and spatial proportions characterize the area. Uniformly designed street spaces, high-quality materials, aesthetically sophisticated recreation and entrance areas emphasize that the Triotop is no ordinary commercial area.
The Triotop is nature conservation, tradition, interaction and modernity, excursion destination, living space and workplace. It has roots in the past and stretches far into the future.