On the site of the former Nibelungen Barracks, the Tech Campus has emerged as a new urban district combining housing, commercial uses, educational facilities and generous public open spaces. The approximately 13.3-hectare landscape park is one of Regensburg’s largest parks and forms the green backbone of the new quarter. As a centrally located recreational landscape, it offers diverse opportunities for movement, play, social interaction and relaxation, while linking new urban development with existing landscape structures.

The overall landscape concept responds to the north-facing slope of the former military site. Rather than levelling the terrain, the design uses the existing topography as a structuring element. Terraced park areas organize the site into distinct spatial characters: meadow park, play and sports park, and woodland park. Together, they create a multifaceted landscape park that accommodates both active and quiet uses.

At the heart of the park lies the open play and sports park. It was developed with the aim of creating an attractive, inclusive and future-oriented open space for the new district and surrounding neighbourhoods. The wellbeing of users is central to the design. An unusually broad range of sports, play and leisure facilities addresses different age groups, abilities and needs.

The generous play areas for children and young people are embedded into the shaped terrain as recessed “lenses”. This creates independent spatial units that are functionally distinct yet visually and landscape-architecturally connected. The landform provides protected play spaces, clear orientation and a varied spatial experience within the open park.

User participation was a key part of the design process. In several workshops, children aged 7 to 12, teenagers aged 13 to 17, and users with limited mobility were asked about their wishes, needs and ideas. Their contributions were evaluated and integrated into the design. As a result, the park was not only planned for its users, but developed with them.

A central feature is the inclusive playground. With the ambition of making all play areas accessible to children with limited mobility, a dragon-shaped play landscape wrapped in EPDM was developed. Its versatile surfaces allow climbing, sliding, exploring and free play. The playground is complemented by climbing structures, a tree house, a maze and an underground tunnel that expands the spatial and narrative experience. The dragon’s head ends in a slide leading directly to an activity area with table tennis tables and hammocks.

The wishes of teenagers were also translated into specific design elements. A distinctive climbing structure, bouldering rocks and a custom-designed timber deck create an independent meeting place with a strong identity and high-quality spatial atmosphere. This area is complemented by renovated basketball and volleyball courts, as well as a fitness zone with horizontal bars, slacklines, calisthenics equipment and additional opportunities for physical activity. For younger children, a water playground with a generous mud play area was created.

The woodland park to the south forms a calm counterpoint to the active play and sports park. Existing trees and vegetation were integrated into the design and complemented by paths, benches, picnic areas and places to linger. The woodland park offers space for walking, jogging, skating and informal encounters. Its atmosphere is shaped by shade, existing vegetation, quietness and everyday recreation.

To the north, the meadow park acts as a mediating zone between commercial and residential uses. Species-rich meadow areas, extensively maintained landscapes and more intensively usable lawn areas structure the promenade and provide ecological compensation spaces. At the same time, the meadow park connects existing and new green spaces along an east-west axis.

A special social and ecological feature is the urban vegetable gardens. Provided by the city and managed by Transition Regensburg, they allow citizens to grow fruit and vegetables, meet one another and take shared responsibility for public open space. Raised beds enable accessible gardening and add a productive, community-oriented dimension to the park.

Tech Campus / Brixen Park combines robust landscape structures with a high diversity of uses, inclusion and social participation. A former military site has been transformed into an open, lively and multilayered landscape park that gives identity to the new district and creates an important public open space for the city of Regensburg.

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