Historical Park 公园、纪念地 by Udo Hubert Dagenbach Glada-Berlin is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2017 A' Design Award 金奖 in 景观规划与园林设计 Competition Category.
金景观设计· 2017
Historical Park 公园、纪念地
by Udo Hubert Dagenbach Glada-Berlin
Client: Glasser and Dagenbach
A' Design Award 金奖 Winner in 景观设计 Category
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The Design
About Historical Park 公园、纪念地
历史公园是位于柏林的一处公共公园与纪念场所，坐落于一座建于1842年至1849年间的普鲁士监狱旧址之上。第二次世界大战末期，政治犯曾被关押并遭受酷刑于此，建筑于1958年被拆除，仅留存外墙。设计通过抬升与下沉的草坪及绿篱，重现了监狱原有的星形平面格局。一座混凝土立方体标示出昔日中央监视点的位置。喷砂处理的米色混凝土与修复后砖墙的灰缝色调相协调。该设计将休闲游憩与历史纪念融汇于同一片景观之中。
The Recognition
About the A' Design Award 金奖
Historical Park 公园、纪念地是 A' Design Award 金奖得主，这是授予一流、绝妙而杰出设计的极为崇高的认可。金奖得主是极具创新、极富远见且璀璨夺目的创作，反映出其设计师的天才、智慧与才干。预计Historical Park 公园、纪念地将成为一项备受赞誉、引领潮流、气势恢宏的发明，带来前所未有的价值。这件赢得 A' Design Award 金奖的设计是一个壮观而受人敬重的项目，极大地造福并拓展艺术、科学、设计和技术的边界。Historical Park 公园、纪念地激起强烈的渴望，唤起激情，鼓励创造力，令我们着迷。
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
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