Historical Park Park, mindesmærke by Udo Hubert Dagenbach Glada-Berlin

Historical Park Park, mindesmærke by Udo Hubert Dagenbach Glada-Berlin is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2017 A' Design Award i Guld in Landskabsplanlægning og Havedesign Competition Category.

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Historical Park Park, mindesmærke

by Udo Hubert Dagenbach Glada-Berlin

Client: Glasser and Dagenbach

A' Design Award i Guld Winner in Landskabsdesign Category

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The Design

About Historical Park Park, mindesmærke

Historisk Park er en offentlig park og et mindesmærke i Berlin, beliggende på stedet for et preussisk fængsel bygget mellem 1842 og 1849. Politiske fanger blev holdt fanget og tortureret her mod slutningen af Anden Verdenskrig, og bygningerne blev revet ned i 1958, hvor kun ydermuren blev tilbage. Den stjerneformede fængselsplan genkaldes gennem hævede og nedsænkede græsplæner og hække. En betonkube markerer det tidligere centrale observationspunkt. Sandblæst beige beton matcher fugerne i den restaurerede murstensvæg. Designet forener rekreation og erindring i ét landskab.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award i Guld

Historical Park Park, mindesmærke er vinder af A' Design Award i Guld, en uhyre prestigefyldt anerkendelse, der tildeles førsteklasses, vidunderlige og fremragende designs. Guldvinderne er yderst innovative, højt visionære og glamourøst blændende skabelser, der afspejler deres designeres geni, visdom og dygtighed. Historical Park Park, mindesmærke forventes at være en højt rost, trendsættende og monumental opfindelse, der leverer hidtil uset værdi. Dette design, der har vundet A' Design Award i Guld, er et spektakulært, respekteret projekt, som i høj grad gavner og flytter grænserne for kunst, videnskab, design og teknologi. Historical Park Park, mindesmærke skaber intense følelser af begær, vækker passion, opmuntrer kreativitet og fascinerer os.

Behind the Design

Press Kit

Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.

Unique Properties: The Prussian prison was constructed from 1842 to 1849 in Berlin. At the end of World War 2 political prisoners have been captured and tortured there. In 1958 the buildings, except the outer wall, have been destroyed. After the political reunion of the two parts Berlin, the city contracted the Glasser and Dagenbach with the planning. The star shaped buildings are conveyed through a series of elevated and sunken grass sections and hedges. The prisons once central observation area is symbolized by a concrete cube as center of an architectural garden with elements of Land and Minimal Art.
Dimensions & Packaging: The whole park area has a size of roughly 2,8 ha. About 330 m of the old prison wall was restored. It is about 4 to 5 m high.
To block the view against existing buildings from the 1970ies we planted many oevergreen pine trees.
In a prison cell a sound installation is started when you enter the cell. Poem from prisoners and knocking sound codes can be heard about 5 minutes. A poem from a former prisoner during the Nazi Period is written on the inside of the prison wall.
Tags: historical park, Berlin, Geschichtspark Moabit, Moabit Prison, memorial
Production Technology: The parks architectural elements are made out of sandblasted, beige coloured concrete. The concrete has the same colour like the the joints of the old remaining brick wall which is left from the former prison. The existing trees are left as visible layers of time which covered this place throughout the postwar time until the fall of the Berlin Wall. Red leafed book trees as hedges show the former prison cell structure. Column like growing Junipers replace the former yard birds walking in the triangular shaped outdoor yards.
Design Challenge: Only prison walls where left . The prison as building and its historical context was not visible any more. The story of the prison is transcripted in a public park through land and minimal art, without a didactic approach. You can receive just as much information as you like. The design completely relies on the impression of the architectural and vegetative elements. We avoided any mannerist attitude; it took a lot of energy to reject political influence from outside and to keep the neighbors and interested citizens informed.
Research: A long process of both public and internal discussion in the team developed the design direction. The client wanted to reach a combination of both recreational park and memorial. This has not been realized before. It took a long time of thinking what means will be used to tell the history of the prison and yet provide a recreational landscape.
Inspiration: This project shows a way how to combine the design for a recreational park with a memorial. With means of land art, and minimal art the story of the historically meaningful space is told by forming an architectural garden that allows both recreation and memory.
Project Duration: The project started 1990 and was finished after 17 years in 2007 in Berlin.
The planning process started with a research contract and then extended to a planning contract. The construction took 3 years.
Operation Flow: The prison park is locked daily at night for security purposes. So the prison function stays somehow alive. The park needs some protection at night as the central station is close by.
It has 3 entrances, on each entrance information pannels are installed, explaining the historical and architectural story of the park.
Patents: all copyrights belong to Udo Dagenbach, glasser and dagenbach, 2006
Team Members: Architect: Alexander Khomiakov
Landscape Architect: Martina Levin
Landscape Architect:Volker Roehrs
Landscape Architect: Sabrina Schroeder
Landscape Architect: Katania Schulz
Drafts women: Marina Kanzler
Landscape Architect: Andreas Steiner
Landscape Architect: Leighton Pace
Landscape Architect: Sabine Linke
artist for sound installation and choice of poem: Christiane Keppler
artist for inclusion of neighbourhood kids: Serge Petit
artist for inclusion of neighbourhood kids: Gabriele Roßkamp
artist for inclusion of neighbourhood kids: Bärbel Rothaar
Image Credits: image 1: Udo Dagenbach, topview,2007
image 2: Udo Dagenbach, panopticum,2007
image 3: Udo Dagenbach, entrance, 2007
image 4: Udo Dagenbach, entrance 2, 2007
image 5: Udo Dagenbach, layout plan, 2007