Interested in the latest competition results in landscape architecture, but hardly have time to look at them properly? In the G+L competition overview, Heike Vossen provides monthly updates on the most exciting competition results. Paradeplatz in Forchheim, 1st prize grabner huber lipp landschaftsarchitekten und stadtplaner, Freising Originally designed as a parade ground, the large parade ground has always served as an extended market square. The design surprises […]
Interested in the latest competition results in landscape architecture, but hardly have time to look at them properly? In the G+L competition overview, Heike Vossen provides monthly updates on the most exciting competition results.
Originally designed as a parade ground, the large parade ground has always served as an extended market square. According to the jury, the design surprises with the idea of a tree-covered square. To achieve this, grabner huber lipp raised the edges of the previously heavily overformed square, thus creating the necessary height for the planting. The sparse crowns of Sophora japonica give the square a green frame without destroying the character of the square as a whole – the view of the Kommandantur and Alte Wache remains undisturbed. To the south, three steps create distance from the street and create a plateau, while to the north a terrace defines the end of the inner square area. The green frame calms the heterogeneous edges to the outside. It encloses a new square center, which is covered with large stone slabs and stands out with a surrounding granite band. In the surrounding street area, the planners have taken up the material concept of the city center – with small-format paving in the driving area and large-format slabs as a front zone in front of the buildings.
The town center in the Glatten district of Neuneck is to become a “place for everyone”, according to the central task of the planning competition. As part of the state redevelopment program, the center represents the final building block in the upgrading of the public space. The winning design defines the village square through its spatial setting and incorporates the street space: The planners supplement the existing structural edges of the square with two green edges, which form the boundary to the south and east as rows of trees. The town hall is once again given a solitary position. The design envisages the demolition of the previous extension and replacing it with a new building that is set back and takes up the alignment of the town hall. The gap creates a visual axis to the church and a passageway with a viewing balcony to the Glatt. The village lime tree with bench will be the central focus of the redesigned village square. The new elongated pavilion gives the STEIN square an additional spatial edge within the square. The pavilion serves as a covered waiting area and its wall conceals the parking spaces behind it.
The KFAS science center based in Kuwait City is to receive a new headquarters including a congress center. The task in the international two-phase competition was to create the two buildings together with strong spatial connections and the associated open space along the waterfront. TOPOTEK 1 won the competition with their design of two low flat-roofed buildings, which are intended to create a visual dialog with each other and shape the harbour profile. The new open space connects the two buildings and blends seamlessly into the existing coastal promenade. The buildings are inspired by the spatial concepts of the patio and the oasis: despite natural lighting, the building envelope minimizes direct sunlight. Horizontal and vertical light openings as well as niches in the façade, roof and building structure break through the buildings and allow for large connected garden spaces inside – their size makes them appear like interior landscapes. The openings blur the boundaries between inside and outside and strengthen their connection: The continuous green open space corridor runs along the edge of the riverbank and passes through the main building.
