Tangentially staggered paths accompany the rainwater in swales on its way out to sea. Connection plazas have clear wall elements which give the ‘flowing park’ an anchor and space for relaxation and play. The park ‘flows’ over the street crossing and thus has priority. Few, apart from the Finnish, know where Oulu is. […]
Category: New Waterscapes
The Scharnhauser Park in Ostfildern
Barracks architecture traditionally has little in common with the quality of life. The buildings are arranged and developed from a purely functional point of view, and people are not inten – The original barracks and ded to feel particularly at home. And the topographical structure. at the time the people who commission ed them […]
Rainwater retention on the Kronsberg in Hanover
Rainwater is stored temporarily in the sloping avenue open spaces and then runs down to the bottom of the slope in a little stream. We heard a great deal about the Kronsberg – before and after Expo 2000. But when the bulldozers have finally moved away, perhaps it will only be the local […]
Think global, act local
Water is neither inexhaustible nor invulnerable. But the intensity with which it is used today tends to ignore these facts, as we increasingly exploit and pollute this gift of nature that is so essential for life. If we do not want to have to dig for our own water in future, we must think co-operatively, […]
Festival des Jardins, Chaumont-sur-Loire
Glass droplets – water droplets. Movement and stillness sparkle together in light. The garden festival at Chaumont is known well beyond the boundaries of France. The daring innovation and design savoir-faire shown here over the last ten years has set the mark for all other garden festivals. Themed each year, the director of […]
Housing estate Arkadien Asperg near Stuttgart
recycled for irrigation, toilet flushing and washing machines. Other stormwater run-off is collected in surface drainage details which contour roads and sidewalks. The planted dry stone walls, use of natural stone, wooden structures and generous informal planting accompany the stormwater features throughout and are part of the vocabulary of green detailing which lends a […]
Sonnenhausen estate in Glonn
The magnificent historical Sonnenhausen estate was given a water garden for rainwater management and to purify waste water. It is part of the little park. There are all sorts of stories and legends about Karl Ludwig Schweisfurth. By profession a business management graduate and master butcher, he took over his father’s sausage business […]
Conversion of Fornebu Airport, Oslo
Generally, when one thinks of Norway, an image of endless natural beauty and intrinsic healthiness comes to mind. And this is mostly the case in a country of natural water landscapes. However, when taking a closer look at cultural and urban centers such as Oslo, even in this land of natural bounties, the worldwide […]
Rainwater for the bears in Zurich zoo
16.00 The first zoo was established 4,000 years ago at the imperial court in China with a few exotic animals, followed 2,300 years ago by Alexandria and 420 years ago by Augsburg. Until the modern period, interesting mammals, above all bears, roamed in ramparts and fortification ditches, contained in special pits or enclosures. […]
Solar City Linz
In the green belt between Solar City and the new bathing lake, sculpted hills were built from excess excavation material from the housing construction. about demands and intentions: ‘The adjacent Traun-Danube water meadows will become a nature conservation area. Visitor control in the form of landscape – designed experience paths is intended to […]