Historical Park Primary Function: Paka, Faamanatuga by Udo Hubert Dagenbach Glada-Berlin

Historical Park Primary Function: Paka, Faamanatuga by Udo Hubert Dagenbach Glada-Berlin is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2017 A' Design Award Auro in Mamanu Vaaiga Fanua Competition Category.

AuroMamanu Vaaiga Fanua· 2017

Historical Park Primary Function: Paka, Faamanatuga

by Udo Hubert Dagenbach Glada-Berlin

Client: Glasser and Dagenbach

A' Design Award Auro Winner in Mamanu Vaaiga Fanua Category

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The Design

About Historical Park Primary Function: Paka, Faamanatuga

Book Text: O le Paka Faasolopito o se paka lautele ma se faamanatuga i Berlin, o loo tu i luga o le nofoaga o se falepuipui a Prussia na fausia i le va o le 1842 ma le 1849. Sa taofia ma sauaina ai pagota faapolokiki i le faaiuga o le Taua Lona Lua a le Lalolagi, ma sa talepeina fale i le 1958, na tuua ai na o le pa i fafo. O le fuafuaga o le falepuipui e foliga fetu o loo faamanatuina e ala i vao mutia ma pa laau ua siitia ma goto. O se poloka sima e faailoga ai le tulaga muamua o le vaavaaiga tutotonu. O le sima piniki na feosofi i le oneone e fetaui ma soofaatasiga o le pa piliki ua toe faaleleia. O le mamanu e tuufaatasia ai faafiafiaga ma faamanatuga i se laufanua e tasi.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award Auro

O le A' Design Award Auro na manumalo ai Historical Park Primary Function: Paka, Faamanatuga, o se faamaoniga matuā mamalu e tuuina atu i mamanu o le tulaga muamua, matagofie ma maoaʻe. O ē manumalo i le Auro o galuega fou tele, matuā vaai i le lumanaʻi ma susulu e faaalia ai le atamai, le poto ma le tomai o tagata mamanu. E faamoemoeina Historical Park Primary Function: Paka, Faamanatuga e avea ma mea fou e matuā vivii, e faatulaga ai uiga fou ma tetele, e tuuina mai ai se tau e leʻi iai muamua. O lenei mamanu na manumalo i le A' Design Award Auro o se galuega ofoofogia, ua faaaloalogia, e aogā tele ma tuleia atu tapulaʻa o le faatufugaga, saienisi, mamanu ma tekonolosi. Historical Park Primary Function: Paka, Faamanatuga e fatuina ai lagona malosi o le manaʻo, faaosofia le tuinanau, faalauiloa le fatufatuaʻi ma faamalosia i tatou.

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