IBA'27 Fellbach "AGRICULTURE meets MANUFACTURING"

Located between Stuttgart and the center of Fellbach, one of Baden-Württemberg’s largest wine-growing municipalities, the 110-hectare project area is uniquely positioned. On one side of the heavily trafficked Stuttgarter Straße lie intensively cultivated agricultural lands with nurseries, orchards, and vegetable farms. On the other side stands Fellbach’s largest industrial zone. Here, agriculture meets industry, forming a “landscape of possibility” that is being strategically reimagined through planning, scientific inquiry, and inclusive dialogue.

The proposal for an “AgriPark” activates this productive landscape through Nature-Based Solutions, recreational routes, and a mixed-use design that makes its productivity visible and experiential. Three key spatial typologies—AgriMarkt, AgriLab, and AgriReservat—are designed as flexible spaces responding to diverse needs: from recreation and local food markets to climate resilience, biodiversity, and experimental research.

The Integrated Action Plan developed for Fellbach explores a range of future-oriented themes: how to harmonize agricultural and industrial use in urban contexts, how to unlock synergies through mixed land use, how to enhance local food production and optimize land use, and how to imagine new typologies for the workspaces of tomorrow.

A series of informative and participatory events brought together business owners, farmers, and private landowners to co-develop concepts and strategies that are not only ecologically and economically viable, but also culturally and architecturally appropriate.

The result is a vision of the Productive Urban Landscape—a spatial network that supports new forms of productivity. But productivity here is not defined by economic output alone: it also encompasses ecological health, social value, and cultural meaning.