Venustas et Utilitas, Mechtenberg Landscape Park On the new aesthetics of urban agriculture

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AppreciationGerman Landscape Architecture Award 2011

Jury verdict: The approach of bringing agricultural land back into the viewer's consciousness through a temporary unfamiliar occupation is welcomed.

Over two years, field studies were launched, projecting a wide variety of planting images and themes onto the fields, changing the perception of the site on a large scale. Conceptually, reference is made to Peter J. Lenne's spatial approach to land beautification, which aimed to combine the beautiful and the utilitarian.

So the contribution is understood as an innovative, also as a poetic contribution to the upgrading of post-industrial cultural landscapes, whereby a permanent implementation as well as a larger scope would be desirable.

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Planning offices

Studio Bürgi
Prof. Paolo L. Bürgi
Prof. Dr. Udo Weilacher (Idee und Konzeption als Kurator)

Further planners involved
Bauleitung:
Studio Paolo Bürgi in Zusammenarbeit mit RVR

Project period
2008 - 2010

Client
Regionalverband Ruhr, Essen

Address

Essen

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Prices & Awards
German Landscape Architecture Award 2011
Appreciation