AVANTIS, AACHEN-HEERLEN (DE-NL)
Location
Aachen (DE) – Heerlen (NL)
Client
Städteregion Parkstad Limburg (NL), City region and municipality of Aachen (DE)
(Multiple) Commissioning
Planning period
2020
Planning scope
The cross-border industrial area Avantis between Aachen and Heerlen
Project team
RHA REICHER HAASE ASSOZIIERTE GmbH
Maurer United Architects (NL)
A new spatial and programmatic vision was developed for the cross-border Avantis business park – between Heerlen and Aachen. The campus hosts companies in high-tech, research and production sectors. Avantis was launched in the 1990s with the aim of creating Europe's first cross-border business park. The current opportunities arising from the geographical location and cross-border cooperation are identified in this vision and spatially translated into an attractive campus that symbolises European cooperation - and thus also takes on a touristic dimension.