RUNNER UP

Project Description by Team: PINCH ME! L202 just woke up…as “climate street”. Faced with demographic shifts, new mobility needs, and the climate crisis, the L202 had to change. With input from many stakeholders and targeted smallscale interventions, it’s becoming a “climate street”— a model for sustainable infrastructure in the Rhine Delta. No longer a barrier, it now supports public life, urban development, biodiversity, and the regional landscape. New microcenters connect neighborhoods and embed the road in its local and regional context. As the first regional climate street, the L202 is key to a livable, sustainable future.

Jury Statement: "The project convinces with its ambitious approach to transforming the heavily traffic-burdened L202 into a “Climate Street” – a road that is no longer a barrier but becomes the connective backbone of climateresponsive regional development. With a finely calibrated system of three intervention types – Tree Bridge, Green Bay, and Common Ground – the team proposes efficient, small-scale, and trans- ferable measures capable of achieving significant impact with limited means. Particularly noteworthy is the concept of a continuous green-blue infrastructure along the axis. Landscape corridors and street modules link ecological and social spaces, opening new cross-connections between key locations. In this way, the road becomes a place of exchange between mobility, nature, and community. The team skilfully translates the challenges of the focus areas into spatial strategies: micro-centres along the L202 combine living, working, services, and leisure, while new squares, courtyards, and Common Grounds serve as social anchor points that strengthen the public realm. While the urbanistic strategies and procedural propos- als are clearly articulated and convincing—especially the emphasis on intermunicipal cooperation and participatory development—the trafficrelated and landscape measures remain partially abstract. The notion of the “Climate Street” is introduced atmospherically, but its concrete spatial and design implementation could be further refined. Overall, the project demonstrates a strong understanding of the need for collective transformation and lays a compelling foundation for a regionally anchored development process that can serve as an exemplary model for many “