Yellow connects!
A yellow, expansive band develops from furnishing elements to greened pergola arms to a green pavilion, creating a flowing transition between landscape and architecture.
Team name: Wuselwelten Landschaftsarchitektur Welter Brancherau GbR
Authors: Daniel Brancherau, David Welter, Germany
Concept
The population wants a place that meets both open space planning and architectural requirements. The focus is on a green and climate-friendly design that is open and inviting. The aim of the project is to create an open space that merges landscape and architecture so that they are perceived as a single entity. The previously separate disciplines are thus given equal status, enabling a new perception of public space.
Yellow ribbon
A yellow ribbon is designed as a connecting element that stretches across the area at different heights. It invites people to walk and play on it, making users an active part of the ribbon and helping to shape it. Starting in the open space as an equipment strip, which develops from an information point to seating and play facilities, sculptural shelters gradually form. From there, seating steps fold back onto the site on the side of the track park. Public toilets are positioned below the seating steps at the interface with the track park. The space-defining part of the strip is a green pergola strip, which is integrated into the steel structure.
Sustainability
A maximally greened open space is created that offers various vegetative qualities in accordance with the uses and access areas. Both large-crowned trees and flowering mixed perennial plantings characterize the appearance. In between, climbing plants entwine along the pergola arms. This creates cool and shady oases that provide both recreational areas for the population and habitats for urban animals.