Franz Reschke Landschaftsarchitektur

As a social space realized through public investment, the project is outstanding in its sobriety, introducing interventions that activate the park by deliberate restraint, lightness and confidence, avoiding the excesses of over-programming. It shows how to effortlessly tackle a typology well known to European cities. The central ‘plaza under the trees’ remains open and unburdened — a space left deliberately undefined, capable of hosting a multiplicity of uses and adapting to unforeseen futures.

Subtle adjustments amplify its everyday functionality: a simple asphalt surface and path extend the spatial affordances for children’s play, while vegetated edges articulate an outdoor room, buffered from adjacent car traffic. The jury recognized in this approach echoes of mottos such as ‘Never demolish, always add,’ associated with the work of Lacaton & Vassal — where social utility and economic pragmatism form the political ground for design action. Winkelriedplatz thus presents itself as public space in its most essential form: adaptive, accessible, and restrained.

On the conversion area of the former US-American housing area in the south of Darmstadt, a lively urban quarter for ca. 5,000 residents will be created until 2021. The central quarter park forms the core of the urban development. Surrounded by a loose framework of trees, the southerly exposed, sandy meadow clearing with its wide […]

Witzenhausen market square was converted into a pedestrian zone at the beginning of the 1980s but currently has various shortcomings. The covering is not barrier-free and the fitments and fixtures are outdated. There is a need for action, and it is equally important to integrate the characteristic stock of sycamore trees, also extremely valuable in […]

Höxter and Corvey – the lively, dense half-timbered town and the expanse of the field on the Weser. The spatial and atmospheric experience of the shared history of the sites in the sense of a ‘journey through time’ is the leitmotif for the State Garden Show 2023. Four sub-areas each tell their own independent story […]

One of the places perceived only “in passing”. Also, one of the valuable public open spaces in the dense Berlin district of Dorotheenstadt. The suggested concept is a cautious further development of Hegelplatz: The existing spatial separation into a framed field and an “adjacent” square will be dissolved. The characteristic tree frame made up of […]

Blücherplatz in the town of Spenge, as it exists, is barely perceptible. The quality of stay and usability for pedestrians is severely restricted due to the dominance of motorised traffic. For the redesign it is necessary to fundamentally rethink the traffic situation and the open space. A uniform and qualitative covering of paving clinkers defines […]