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Historical Park Park and Memorial by Udo Hubert Dagenbach Glada-Berlin Is Granted the Golden A' Design Award in Landscape Planning and Garden Design
Udo Hubert Dagenbach Glada-Berlin honored for landscape planning and garden design by the international grand jury of the 2016 - 2017 A' Design Award & Competition
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COMO, Italy, April 19, 2017 /DesignNewswire/ A' Design Award & Competition has confirmed the Golden A' Design Award in the Landscape Planning and Garden Design category for Historical Park Park and Memorial by Udo Hubert Dagenbach Glada-Berlin, designed for Glasser and Dagenbach. The result belongs to the 2016 - 2017 A' Design Award & Competition and was determined through blind peer review by an international grand jury panel of established academics, design professionals and press members, who scored anonymized entries against predetermined criteria.
What the Golden A' Design Award Means
The Gold A' Design Award is granted to designs that demonstrate a high level of innovation and a significant impact on their intended audience. Recognized as a major achievement by the A' Design Awards, these designs are characterized by their visionary approach and the exceptional skill of their creators. Winners of the Gold A' Design Award are noted for their ability to push the envelope in art, science, design, and technology, delivering solutions that not only meet but exceed expectations. These designs serve as benchmarks for excellence, encouraging further innovation and inspiring future generations of designers.
More About Historical Park Park and Memorial
Historical Park is a public park and memorial in Berlin, set on the site of a Prussian prison built between 1842 and 1849. Political prisoners were held and tortured there at the end of the Second World War, and the buildings were demolished in 1958, leaving only the outer wall. The star shaped prison plan is recalled through raised and sunken lawns and hedges. A concrete cube marks the former central observation point. Sandblasted beige concrete matches the joints of the restored brick wall. The design joins recreation and remembrance in one landscape.
About Udo Hubert Dagenbach Glada-Berlin
Udo Dagenbach in glasser and dagenbach creates border crossing design between landart and regular landscape architecture and shows new possibilities to design urban landscapes in many different parts of the world.
Award Record
Udo Hubert Dagenbach Glada-Berlin is a winner of 1 A' Design Award, including this recognition.
About the A' Landscape Planning and Garden Design Award
The A' Landscape Design Award is an international landscape design competition recognizing good landscape designs by leading architects and designers worldwide. The competition is organized within the A' Design Award & Competition and is open to landscape designers, urban planners, garden designers and municipalities from all countries. Entries typically include landscape designs, public parks, residential gardens, urban plazas, campus designs and green roofs. Awarded landscape designs are published at https://designers.org/design-category/landscape-design
About A' Design Award & Competition
A' Design Award & Competition is an international, juried design accolade organized annually since 2008. The competition is open to entries from all countries. The A' Design Award has a philanthropic mission to advance society through good design by recognizing and promoting superior products, projects and services that benefit society, and by creating a global awareness and appreciation for good design practices and principles. Entries are peer reviewed and anonymously evaluated by an international grand jury panel of established academics, design professionals and press members against predetermined criteria such as functionality, ergonomics, engineering, presentation, innovation, usability, sustainability and technology, with score normalization applied to remove biases. Awards are conferred at Platinum, Gold, Silver, Bronze and Iron levels. The A' Design Prize granted to eligible laureates includes the award trophy, the certificate of design excellence, the hardcover yearbook, a lifetime license to use the A' Design Award winner logo, exhibition of awarded works, an invitation to the gala night and award ceremony in Italy, inclusion in the World Design Rankings and Designer Rankings, and public relations and publicity services. Registration, the upload of a work and the preliminary score are free of charge, and Professional and Digital Edition laureates are not contractually obliged to pay further fees to claim the A' Design Prize. Further information is available at https://competition.adesignaward.com
Press Resources
- Winner Page: https://designers.org/54366
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/54366
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!54366
- Laureate Profile: https://designers.org/d/179021
- Further Information from the Laureate: http://www.glada-berlin.de/
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- Historical Park Park and Memorial
- Function
- Park and Memorial
- Category
- Landscape Planning and Garden Design
- Discipline
- Spatial Design
- Industry
- Architecture and Sustainability
- Colors
- Dark Olive Green, Dim Gray, Gray and Peru
- Images
- 5
- Client
- Glasser and Dagenbach
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Udo Hubert Dagenbach Glada-Berlin
- Country
- Germany
- Recognition
- Golden A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2016 - 2017
- Design ID
- #54366
Credits
- Team
- Alexander Khomiakov, Martina Levin, Volker Roehrs, Sabrina Schroeder, Katania Schulz, Marina Kanzler, Andreas Steiner, Leighton Pace, Sabine Linke, Christiane Keppler, Serge Petit and Gabriele Roßkamp and others
- Image Credits
- Udo Dagenbach, topview,2007; Udo Dagenbach, panopticum,2007; Udo Dagenbach, entrance, 2007; Udo Dagenbach, entrance 2, 2007; Udo Dagenbach, layout plan, 2007
Design Details
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Realization and 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.
- Operation and Interaction
- 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.
- Project Duration and Location
- 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.
- Specifications
- 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.
- Keywords
- historical park, Berlin, Geschichtspark Moabit, Moabit Prison, memorial
