The Weimar Neighborhood Center is located in the Sudstadt district about 5 km south of the city center and the Bauhaus Museum. The intent of the developer was to respond to the community’s desire to establish a vibrant center of commercial activity that also responded to the scale of existing residences. The program embraces the community fabric and creates a network of open spaces tying into the nearby park while transforming the hierarchy and establishing a relatively different scale.

The program includes a centralized commercial office space with retail uses at the ground level. A neighborhood library and future museum space complement other uses. Multi-family units at the periphery of the site are designed at the scale of the townhouse to maintain the scale of the adjacent residential neighborhood. Open space is defined, both as in the center of the plan area and also used as a transition for scale while enabling a pedestrian network through the project. The project provides a transition between the residential neighborhood and the nearby clinic while anchoring the southern edge of Sudstadt within the countryside.