Collaborative Design Planting Design Working Group 13

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Landschaftspark Duisburg-Nord

Name	Landschaftspark Duisburg-Nord
Location	Duisburg
Country	Germany
Authors	Anja Graner, Iwein Mertens and Yudi Gao

Landscape and/or urban context of your case

Landschaftspark is a public park located in Duisburg Nord, Germany.

It was a agricultural land, prior to the mid 19th century.

Then it became a coal and steel production plant, which has been abandoned in 1985.

The area had been leaving significantly polluted.

In 1991 Latz + Partner (Peter Latz) has win the design competition for this area.

The intention is to to heal and understand the industrial past, rather than trying to reject it.

What are the objectives of your design?

Anja Graner:'What are the objectives of your design?' One of the important aspects is the preservation of the industry style. The history and the utilization of this area is not forgotten and still the main point in this park. The park is a good example for an environmental, economic and social transformation of an old industrialized region. The existing fragments were to be interlaced into a new landscape..

Iwein Mertens: The site/park is not only a good example for the re-use of it, but it is also a very great statement to the people. Not only would they waist "our" money by demolishing everyting, but the recyling from an old industrial material (cooling tank) to an object that the people know and like (lilypond). And it shows that the use-age of green still has hope in the industrial areas. I find it very interesting because you can use it as a pilot for other cases like that, see how the plants re-act to the formal usage of the area, ...

Yudi Gao: I have zoomed out my research to the overall German industrial heritage areas. By asking “what, where, and how were they extracted from the ground” and learning from landscape park Duisburg Nord, I see the possibility to develop all these sites as a whole. I believe it will lead to a new concept of green system, water system, infrastructure and transportation into a national even international scale.

Analytical drawings

Please add four analytical sketches/drawings (or montages/schemes) of your case. Every group member needs to contribute at least one drawing.

• Analytical Drawings
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  analytical drawing 1

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  Recycling

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  Programatic Transformation

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  analytical drawing 4

Projective drawings

Please add four projective sketches/drawings (or montages/schemes), of course with an emphasis on planting design/vegetation aspects. Every group member needs to contribute at least one drawing representing his/her individual ideas.

• Projective Drawings
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  projective drawing 1

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  projective drawing 2

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  projective drawing 3

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  projective drawing 4

Design Synthesis

Please analyse the individual approaches presented so far and evaluate their strengths and weaknesses (you may use the SWOTanalysis model). Try to create a synthesis and represent it with a plan and some sketches. You can still use drawings/sketches.

• Design Synthesis Drawings
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  synthesis drawing 1

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  artifical versus natural

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  synthesis drawing 3

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  synthesis drawing 4

Summary of the collaborative process

Please reflect on your collaborative design process. Which potentials have you encountered? What was most difficult? What does collaborative design mean for you? (approx 150 words).

Anja Graner:We chose a new theme because we wanted to go together with the same previous knowledge to this task. This park is very large and includes many new different and exciting aspects. So it was a challenge to select the main aspects and to analyze them. However, for me it was very exciting to familiarize myself with this project.

Yudi Gao:Since this is one of the most famous landscape architecture project with great amount of information. We decided to illustrate our individual research in to concept maps. This became a shot cut for us to exchange our information. And each of us has contributed a overall map to location our argument – in terms of infrastructure transformation, programs, design systems, planting strategy, and development proposal.

Iwein Mertens: Due to the fact that we are from three other countries, and afcourse have our own different approaches it went quit good to manage this task. Probably because we founded a way to work together in the previous case study. Personal if found very instructive because we were working for tree different angels, which resulted in a joint solution.

Image Gallery

You may add a series of images/photos in addition to the sketches/drawings

• Image Gallery
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  image 2

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  image 4

References

* Please make sure that you give proper references of all external resources used.

* Do not use images of which you do not hold the copyright.

* Please add internet links to other resources if necessary.

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