realgrün landscape architects

Our work as landscape architects focuses on the planning and design of the environment. The focus is on interventions in urban, mostly public spaces. Interventions that range in scale from large-scale planning to the design of individual objects. In addition to fulfilling functional requirements, the development of a concise design is important to us. Conciseness can only develop on the basis of a well thought-out concept. We are convinced that reduction and restraint are generally the most effective ways to implement robust structures that can be used in a variety of ways in public, urban spaces - "the simple things that are so difficult to do".

We see ourselves as landscape architects, not garden architects - the garden is an expression of individual interaction with nature, the landscape is an expression of collective interaction with nature. As landscape architects, we therefore deal with a political issue: a social understanding that favors concepts such as time, dynamics, change, potential, i.e. basic building blocks of future-oriented models of thought, will inevitably come to a different understanding of garden and landscape than a social understanding that revolves around concepts such as preservation, care, protection, exclusion and marginalization.



We are committed to an analytical-systematic design methodology; landscape architecture is the result of an intellectual process, not the result of a recipe-like application of an individualistic canon of materials and forms. A process that starts with an analysis of the task and the location and, building on this, leads to an appropriate design solution via a clear concept.



Our work reacts to the location, the space, takes a clear position in relation to the context. Formal continuity in the sense of recognizable label architecture is not our goal, but rather continuity of content that leads to unambiguous forms.



Quote Adorno: Form is sedimented content.



For us, design does not end with service phase 5 of the HOAI. It is precisely in the implementation of the idea in the built form that the highest degree of creative discipline is required in order to implement the design assertion in the concrete materialization.




A long process of communication is required to reach the point at which the design assertion can be tested against the built reality. The concept and design idea must be communicated convincingly. Visual communication is undergoing rapid change, and with it the classic presentation of architectural content is also changing: Media such as the Internet, video, 3D, cad-interactive and virtual space mark the field of tension in reception. In this area, our architectural field of work receives important impulses from outside, for example from the graphic arts or art. Confirmed by the interdisciplinary project work, from the competition to the realization of projects, we are convinced that today a good project can only be created in a dialogue between the different design disciplines that is sustainable in the social context - the interior house includes the exterior house, the functional enclosed space includes the functional open space, the positive urban space includes the negative urban space. Public space includes private space, the center includes the periphery, the sprawl, and author design includes industrial, anonymous design.



Based on a dialectical relationship between buildings and outdoor space, the question of contrast, constancy and change is interesting for us as landscape architects. The construction of buildings generally aims for permanence and durability. Within the period of use, a desired state is defined and changes and movements are minimized through the choice of construction and materials.



In contrast, the outdoor space, which in most cases becomes a "green space" due to the presence of plants, is defined by constant change. Time is a determining factor right from the start. Every plant grows, a creatively defined state of this building material can only be reduced to a certain range through radical interventions - also known as maintenance. One of the roots of the fascination of green outdoor spaces probably lies in this recalcitrance, the elusiveness of the final manipulability. The conscious handling of plants, with their original characteristic - their ability to change - is one of the basic design themes of landscape architecture.



Our work contains "architectural" elements and rejects the commonly held view that nature per se demands organic forms. It is precisely in the interplay of built rigor and the ultimately anarchic behaviour of plants that good landscape architecture is created.

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