
Jessica Borchardt
- Site : www.baid.de
- Adresse : Hopfensack 19 20457 Hamburg
Versatile, ambitious, timeless,
these are the words that most eloquently describe Jessica
Borchardt. She is a woman of considerable expressiveness, which shows, not only in her language
and articulation, but also through her architecture and design skills.
Jessica's path started early with her carpentry training, from which she graduated with honors, best
of the year. This laid the foundation, as well as a yardstick, for her following accomplishments,
while studying at the architecture faculty of the TU Braunschweig. When she received her diploma
in architecture in 2000, she had not only already worked at the institute of her professor Meinhardt
von Gerkan, but also received both the “Lavespreis” and the "DAAD" scholarship in Beijing for her
achievements.
After her fellowship she started working for her former professor at his architecture office “gmp”,
situated in Hamburg, and led large, international projects from the very beginning. In the year 2005
she finally took the big step of founding her own office. A project, which started small as an one-
person show, quickly developed into the 30 employee office “BAID”, located in the heart of
Hamburg, in collaboration with her art gallery “Galerie Borchardt”.
Since 2005 Jessica Borchardt has come a long way, winning several awards, being member of
various Juries, for universities, diverse projects, as well as architectural competitions. Furthermore,
she joined Project-M, a mentor program, with the aim of supporting young female architects on
their career path.
Jessica's projects cover a broad spectrum of comprehensive urban architecture, interior and
exterior concepts, to detail and furniture design. With her claim to innovative, environmentally
friendly, and timeless architecture, she has already created numerous buildings in a wide variety of
locations. From large company headquarters, to psychiatric facilities besides luxury- and social
housing, everything is included.
Her maxim: “Good architecture is the greatest sustainability Factor”
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Lingang New City
Immediately after her graduation, Jessica Borchardt won the first prize for “gmp” in the multi-stage urban planning competition, for the foundation of Lingang New City (now Nanhui), in the People's Republic of China. On 74 square kilometres, the newly planned satellite city creates space for almost 1 million people. The urban planning concept for Lingang New City takes up the ideals of the traditional European city and combines them with a revolutionary concept: instead of a densely built city centre, a circular lake framed by an 8 km lake promenade forms the focal point in the heart of the city. The urban architecture spreads out in a radial pattern, with only cultural buildings and leisure facilities located on islands that can be reached by boat.
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