Planting Design 2013 Working Group 20 - Case Study C

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Orangerie's park: a new interpretation of Karlsaue.

Name	Karlsaue Park
Location	Kassel
Country	Germany
Authors	Giuseppe Mineo

Rationale: Why is this case interesting?

Here is a typical view of the Orangerie, an ancient and extended park in Kassel, Hessen. The park is an hybrid structure, between the Baroque style and the typical views of the English Gardens. It offers many kinds of trees, mixing vegetation from many parts of the world. In the past it was the garden of the Orangerie building, where the royal family lived. The view you see is one of the five ways there was once upon a time. This is one of the two canals which traverse the first half part of the park: the view is straight, ensuring a landscape with bothly closed and open to the infinite.

Author's perspective

As an Erasmus student living for the first time in Germany, I caught this occasion to improve my knowledge about one of the best parks in the whole country. I was affascinated by the mix of style going across the ages which characterize the Karlsaue park. The typical Baroque regular style is in contrast with some studies about sights, closed landscapes and about trees selection. My objective now is to try to reconfigurate the head of the whole park, the part in front of the Orangerie building.

Landscape and/or urban context of your case

The large Baroque park initiated by Landgrave Karl (1654 – 1730) was laid out from 1680 onwards below the old residential palace of the landgraves of Hessen-Kassel. The fundamental components of the basic Baroque structure, comprising the three main paths radiating from the bowling green in front of the orangery, the large basin and “Siebenbergen” island, were retained when the park was redesigned as a landscape garden in 1785. As a result, it consists of an attractive mixture of Baroque elements, e.g. long straight avenues and canals, and effectively arranged “natural areas” made up of a variety of shrubs and groups of trees. The varied colours of the foliage create an impressive effect when the leaves change colour in autumn. The botanical highlight of the park is “Siebenbergen” island at its southwest end. Redesigned by court gardener Hentze in 1822, it is a well-tended botanical jewel with a large variety of shrubs, herbaceous perennials, bushes and flowers which is worth seeing throughout the seasons. Two peacocks walk proudly through the vegetation. The “marble bath” pavilion is located next to the orangery and is one of the most significant ornate rooms of German Baroque architecture, featuring sculptures and reliefs of outstanding artistic quality.

Analytical drawings

• Analytical Drawings
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  Analysis of the possible new configurations of the squares.

Projective drawings

• Projective Drawings
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  Sketch about the new aesthetical concept of the Karlsaue

Summary and conclusion

The project is still in course.

Image Gallery

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• Image Gallery
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  View from air of the Baroque park

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  The Orangerie building, in autumn

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  A sight from the park

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