Landscape Park Berlin-Wartenberg

 
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For the site bordering the prefabricated housing development of Hohenschönhausen to the north, we suggest a new type of park which combines public urban park and agrarian landscape, thus forming an extensive park landscape which changes and pulsates over time. The basic structure of the park is an large intarsia-like form whose individual fingers are woven into the field structure. Attractions are located at the ends of the fingers which link the park with the landscape. The farm landscape becomes an important part of the park experience.

The permanent park areas, some of which have hard borders of vegetation (hedges and rows of trees), each contain their own specific types of vegetation and small structures of use, and stand out clearly against the large-surface field structures. The park can expand into the fields at their soft edges. Isolated interventions and transportable landscape furniture make the agrarian areas useful to the public for activities like labyrinths, horse pastures, dog meadows, camping, raves, mobile peopleÕs golf, etc. The park pulsates and changes over time. The shifting blooming zones of "vegetative fusesÓ give the concept a creative parallel.



Competition Landscape Park Wartenberg-Hohenschönhausen | Berlin | 2000

Nancy Couling, Philipp Oswalt, Klaus Overmeyer
With : Sebastian Holtmann, Florian Kessel, Bruno Kurz und Annemie Hauss