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From Green Cities to Green Infrastructures – An Interview with Andreas O. Kipar

Andreas O. Kipar Dr. Arch. Dipl-Ing

International landscape architect and urbanist Andreas Kipar gained his first degree in Landscape Architecture in Ruhr, Germany. He graduated with honors in Architecture at Polytechnic University of Milan. He works at a professional level in the field of planning and landscape design, with emphasis on environmental recovery at different scales. He teaches in various European universities. He is a member of the Presidential Council of the German Association of Landscape Architects (BDLA), member of the Italian Association of Landscape Architects (AIAPP), the German Association for Garden Design and Landscape Architecture

LR: What is a brownfield in your opinion? Andreas O. Kipar (AK): Nowadays talking about brownfield doesn’t mean just to talk about former industrial areas, or single holes and voids within the city. Somehow, the contemporary city itself is a brownfield and has to be seen in terms of infrastructures: we need to take into account the entire body of the city if we want to reactivate it. We are going beyond the modern city, changing our attitudes and competences: our cities are organisms that need to be turned from gray to green. In other words we are designing a new philosophy: from green cities to green infrastructures. The European guidelines are bringing us to the smart and green city: this big change needs, of course, the creation of a strong green infrastructure, where “green” stands for nature and “infrastructure” stands for technology. Our sensibility, in Europe, brings us

(DGGL) and the Italian National Institute of Urbanists (INU). Since 2005 he has been a member of the German Urban and

to the idea that, on one hand, nature is something emotional and, on the other, green is something more technical. We can no longer be scared by technology, because the green infrastructure is technology. In 25 years of practice, Milan has been a real workshop for LAND Milano. Here in fact, within the frame of Green Rays – the global strategy developed by LAND Milano for an urban green infrastructure, part of the City’s Green Plan – today we have five realized examples of former industrial sites successfully renovated: the former productive sites of Pirelli (Fig. 1), Alfa Romeo (Fig. 2), Maserati (Fig. 3), Fiat (Fig. 4), and a former railway yard. Heading toward EXPO2015 we also activated and extended the Green Rays strategy to the area West of Milan, in the EXPO site area, through LET – Landscape Expo Tour, a project that aims to reactivate the excellences on the territories.

Fig. 2 Alfa Romeo, Portello

Fig. 3 Maserati, PRU Rubattino

Fig. 4 Fiat, PRU Leoni

This is made possible by a change of paradigm: learning by doing with an after-modern approach. It’s the end of the “tabula rasa” way of thinking: we don’t need to reinvent ourselves anew, but to re-organize and reform ourselves and the fragmented reality surrounding us.

working in other major former industrial cities, from Turin to Venice Porto Marghera. Our next themes are Moscow, Sao Paulo, Istanbul, and the Chinese growing cities.

renewal, techniques of recovery, and landscape design. The primary target of Project ReFIT is to re-develop contaminated areas by means of phytoremediation and to produce renewable energy. This innovative approach can develop new resources and at the same time add value to the local landscape.

LR: Why is it important to redevelop brownfields? What do you think about the harm they caused to human beings? And what are the potential benefits to redevelop brownfields? AK: We have no other possibility but using brownfields, the old industrial land in our way, to stop the consumption of soil and resources. We are seeking high-density cities: we need more density and more permeability. In Europe we are used to density and to living in high-density cities. Brownfields can be the link, the joining link between old and new environment. This is the big challenge for the future: transforming and renewing brownfields to create new possibilities for modern cities. We had the chance to gain expertise in this field applying the Green Rays strategy within the city of Milan , the most important former industrial city in Italy, creating new “energy bypass,” and in Essen, in the Rhur valley, the most important European former industrial area. Now we are SOIL

Landscape Planning Academy (DASL).

LR: Do you believe that an abandoned industrial land can be transformed into a healthy and sustainable green land? What role do you think a landscape architect can play in a brownfield redevelopment project? AK: The correspondence big change – big opportunity is at the base of redevelopment processes creating a healthy and sustainable environment. The role of landscape architects is essential, not just ornamental, because it gives input rules for new strategies. Landscape architects used to be seen rather as gardeners, but they actually act in first line, driving the change and dealing with ecological, economic and social behaviors. By the way, everything starts with the consideration of soil, water and green (Fig.5), and everything works together into an integrated approach referred to green infrastructures. In this sense, LAND Milano is ready to face this challenge through the integrated activities of ReFIT (Fig. 6), a network of companies with different skills in the field of brownfield WATER

LR: What do you think are the difficulties during the landscape design for an abandoned industrial land? For example, what difficulties have you faced during the design for the ThyssenKrupp HQ and Park Portello? And how did you break through them? AK: The main difficulty is to integrate all the spatial aims in a big, moderate and balanced masterplan. In Portello we moved 255,000 cubic meters of soil, and in ThyssenKrupp we found the way to collect rainwater from building rooftops and drive it to the lake in the park and into the main water basin that faces the Headquarters building. In the end it’s always a matter of connection: connect the whole environmental metabolism passing through the main elements generating the landscape. Both Portello and Kupp Park work as connector to the urban green infrastructure identified by the Green Rays of Milan and Green Rays of Essen. GREEN

He won different landscape awards such as: Italian Institute for Urban Planning;

WATER

BROWNFIELD

URBAN

TRANSPORT

GREEN

REDEVELOPMENT

REGENERATION

-transport CO2

BUILDING -environmental quality

management

-demolition

emission

-technological innovation

-gray water

-reuse

-public

-smart resources management

-rebuilt

transport

-building energetic

-private

optimization

transport

GREENING

-sewage water

the European Award for Landscape Architecture of ELCA; the North Renania

management

Westfalia Landscape Architecture Award

-rain water

(LandschaftsArchitektur-Preis NRW) and

management

AGRICULTURE

ENERGY

SUSTAINABLE

-organic

-wind

TOURISM

agriculture

-sun

-bicycle paths

-water

-B&B

the Special Landscape Prize of Sardinia.

CORPORATIONS

-agritourism

He is founder and director of LAND Srl (Land, Architecture, Nature & Development) and KLA kiparlandschaftsarchitekten COUNTRYSIDE

Milano & Duisburg, both with different offices in Italy and Germany.

Fig. 1 Pirelli, Bicocca

URBAN SPRAWL

Fig. 5 GLE – Green Landscape Economy Principles: soil, water and green

LOW DENSITY URBAN SETTLEMENT

HIGH DENSITY CITY

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recovery and transformation of the brownfield sites. Then we have to remind that, for every transformation, a specific attention to the local characters and quality of the landscape is required. Portello Park in Milan is a great example of this integrated approach, where the movements of soil are modeled using the materials excavated from the nearby construction areas. The Five Hills Krupp Park as well has to deal with the challenge of a brownfield redevelopment, with a special focus on the management of water. In Moscow, Russia, our first prize project for Khodynka Park will lead to a process of recovery and enhancement of soil in a former airport site.

Fig. 6 ReFIT network

LR: Is everything on a brownfield land completely nuisance which should be erased? Or do you think that something should be reserved and can be used in the landscape design? AK: Only the old thinking of modernism had the belief that the right way is the one passing through a tabula rasa strategy. I’m sure the future will be completely different and I strongly believe we need to conserve, protect and renovate whatever is possible in old industrial areas. Industrial heritage adds real value to all the project, showing there is no future but the one rising from reality. What is now modernity? We want to give a good input and support the idea it’s better to renovate the existing. I believe in the join forces between old and new, they can sure work better together instead of a tabula rasa.

LR: Could you please introduce the main remediation techniques for brownfield redevelopment? Do you have any special techniques and measures when dealing with the polluted soil, water, plants and waste? AK: The issue of remediation is very interesting because it introduces two parameters: costs and time. Recovering and transforming brownfields is always a process and happens through a certain span of time. During this period of transformation, it is possible to optimize the environmental value of the areas and to fulfill economic convenience. In fact the consortium ReFIT has been created

after a business idea that combines at the same time a technique for the brownfields redevelopment and the goal of making profit from areas that are highly polluted and neglected. This business model includes the application of phytoremediation for the long-term recovery of polluted areas, the use of large abandoned areas for the production of electric energy and heat from renewable resources, and a design approach oriented to the requalification and improvement of the landscape and environment, leading to the increase of the land value. These strategies can be applied and combined for the best results, where phytoremediation has low costs and allows for an immediate green transformation of the areas, the cultivation of biomass has an economic upturn, and an intelligent project for the transformation of the areas through time can bring important positive effects on the increase of value of the land itself. Phytoremediation is a technique that uses tree, shrubs and herbs to clean up soil, water and sediments. This technology can be used in presence of several contaminating elements, functioning at the same time as green compensation. Then a relevant goal is recovering polluted sites through phytoremediation and the production of renewable energy. Thanks to this innovative approach, new resources for the territory are introduced including elements of environmental quality. The biomass cultivation is an element of mitigation in the landscape and acilitate the renewal of soil. Its presence gives immediately the perception of a green landscape in transformation. If we apply these techniques simultaneously, then the management of soil, water, plants and waste becomes a coherent process leading to the

LR: What are the time commitments associated with different kinds of remediation (removing contaminated soils, bioremediation/ phytoremediation)? And how about the cost? AK: The issue of remediation introduces two parameters: costs and time. The costs of phytoremediation are massively lower compared to other chemical techniques or to the transportation to dumpsite. The critical element of this technique is the long time required for the recovery of the soil. According to the ReFIT approach, the time of transformation of the brownfield becomes a valuable time instead of being unproductive. The introduction of a coherent green infrastructure allows the increase in value of the soil, while the introduction of biomass cultivation is itself an activity with economic incomes. There is no contradiction or dichotomy between long transformation times and economical value, because during the process of transformation the soil gains value until its complete recovery, and when the process of remediation is complete these areas will take advantage of a green infrastructure that has been built and has grown through the years in the perspective of “preverdissement.” The project of Saline Joniche with architect Italo Rota perfectly represents this approach, where – while the natural soil undergoes a process of remediation – an artificial ground allows the use of the areas since the very beginning.

LR: Your firm has done such a good job at brownfield projects. What interests you most about this kind of project? Which project do you find most challenging and how did you deal with it?

Fig. 7 Khodynka Park – aerial view

AK: I think we can consider Krupp Park as the most challenging and most important intervention we made in matter of brownfields. With it we went for a flexible and adaptable strategy: bubbles of soil and biomorphic paths form the Krupp Park, also known as Five Hills Park, realizing a new nature design. “Stop war on nature” is Jeremy Rifkin slogan. And I say more than this: stop war on nature and let’s work with it! No more imitation of nature, no copy of it, we now need to interpret nature and its way of being and regenerating its own consistence. In other words, since we are facing the Third Industrial Revolution, we absolutely have to work more and more with nature to reach longterm sustainability plan to address the triple challenge of the global economic crisis, energy security, and climate change.

LR: Are there any interesting stories you would like to share during your professional career? Is there anyone special who inspires you most? What do you think can make one a good landscape architect? AK: The story of Essen is particularly interesting. It all started with a walk that I had with the Mayor of Essen. Here in Milan, he could witness with his eyes the application and effects of the Green Rays, a strategic project by LAND Milano that has officially become part of the Green Plan

From Milan to Essen. From Essen to Moscow. After some years we now have the chance to put into design this statement of working with nature regenerating a former airfield: Khodynka Park (Fig. 7) in Moscow has been the perfect field creating the most modern urban park in Russia where all the efforts are in the balance between design and nature.

LR: As a team leader, what kind of team you would like to assemble if you are commissioned to redevelop a brownfield? AK: Landscape architect; architect; urbanist; artist; communication designer.

Fig. 8 IFC – International Financial Center

of the city of Milan. The Mayor asked me: “Why can’t we do this in Essen, too?” We immediately started working on Essen structure and permeability, and on the possibility of connection of the two rivers flowing north and south of the city. Three vertical connections have been identified, which connect with the linear structure of the two waterways giving shape to a cellular system. The radial structure of the green rays in Milan here becomes a cellular structure able to involve the whole territory and anticipate future developments.

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On the other hand, some 2,500km away, in Venice we are experimenting the opposite. With Venice Green Dream (Fig. 9) and Venice EXPO Gate 2015 (Fig. 10), we claim the possibility of a new strategy in the renovation of the city of Venice-Porto Marghera. Instead of building green infrastructures for a new city that will grow in the near future, here we deal with the difficult situation left from decades of abandon. After an intense industrial activity, from the 90s the decline of industry has left many areas abandoned and strongly polluted; in this scenario we are now working on the remediation and transformation of a large area of about 35ha.

Fig. 9 VGD – Venice Green Dream

The result of this challenging transformation is that today Essen is candidate as Green Capital 2016. I wish that many other mayors will soon take a walk in Essen and say “Why can’t we do this in my city?”

LR: Are there any special projects that you are working on recently or in the near future? AK: Yes, of course. I can mention Moscow and Venice. The first one with the International Financial Center (Fig. 8), where we created a green city starting and funding the city itself on real green rays. We called it the Balance City.

Fig. 10 Venice EXPO Gate 2015

TEAM MOSCOW – ASTOC / HPP with the landscape design by KLA kiparlandschaftsarchitekten, LAND Group – is selected among the three finalists for the IFC International Competition in Moscow. Here, we talk of a great and complete transformation of an entire urban area in the Russian capital. The strategy for this development is to start from the green infrastructure: the system of green and pedestrian spaces in fact is the backbone of the whole urban renewal, and this new part of the city develops on the edges of a green system that grants permeability and life quality, high ecological standards and sustainability.

This former industrial area has been first valorized through the project “Venice Green Dream” and brought back to the attention of the citizens and visitors with a symbolic 50×50m realization. Now we are transforming it into Venice EXPO Gate, a great and ambitious project that will make this brownfield the starting point for the overall strategy of refounding of the Porto Marghera former heavy industry area.

LR: Would you like to talk anything about the future of brownfield redevelopment and landscape design? AK: From green city to green infrastructure for a better life quality, working with nature for a better future in an ever-changing world. The keyword is INNOVATION, from project to process.

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Portello Park – Ex Alfa Romeo Area

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1. View from the hill 2. Water basin from above 3. Water, green and white stripes

Landscape Architect: Charles Jencks, Andreas Kipar, LAND Milano srl | Location: Milan, Italy

he term “green ray” was adopted by Andreas Kipar as the theme and metaphor of his work for Milan and the post-industrial city. The “green rays” are a manifest of a vision of the city in the 21st century, made possible only through “soft” changes in its connections. This logic presupposes a careful reading of the city, its history and its morphology, as in the case of the Portello area, where industrial tradition, a calling for green and fragments of what was already there make up a whole, which in turn becomes the end point of a long dorsal. In fact the Portello “green ray” takes into consideration future transformations in Milan, like those in the former trade fair, the future “Biblioteca degli Alberi” (Library of Trees) and the “Città della Moda” (City of Fashion), seeing them as a completion of the historic nucleus – the neoclassic gardens at Porta Venezia – and reenforcement of the modern nucleus, the post-war landmark of Monte Stella, symbol of the reconstruction of Milan and of the reformative aspirations of modern architecture.

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The Portello project started in 2000 and occupies an area of 240,000sqm. The area once housed the Alfa Romeo and Lancia factories. 255,000 cubic meters of soil was removed to revitalize the brownfield. This site represents the new north gate of the city, which leads to the motorway system, and dialogues with the great diagonal in Gino Valle general intervention plan, which will be the new threshold and connection between the trade fair and the new “Piazza Mercato” (Market Square). The Portello Park is part of a green system that connects the center of the city to the hinterland, passing through the highways. That’s why the park has to compare to the urban scale and, at the same time, to the green/infrastructure system. Three big landforms relate to the urban territory and, at the same time, provide

specific areas for different functions (playgrounds, lake for events…). Portello Park is unified by the narrative of time and visually by the geometry of circles, arcs and crescents. Together these themes and forms develop the idea of time as experienced by the public and the individual. The sense of time everybody knows is both circular and linear; it is repetitive like a heartbeat and sequential like evolution. If you put these two types together, the circle and the line, then they become the overall theme of the park, Time-Spirals. The combination we see with hurricanes, DNA, galaxies and many kinds of vortex. That’s why on top of Helix there will be a DNA sculpture.

Project Name: Portello Park – Ex Alfa Romeo Area Completion Date: 2013 Area: 7ha Photographer: LAND Milano srl / Ilaria Consolaro

1. Top view on the water basin

LANDSCAPE MASTERPLAN

PLAN WITH SURROUNDINGS ELEVATION

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PATHS IN PAMPA COLLINA 1 1. Photinia fraseri ‘Red Robin’ 2. Laurus nobilis 3. Fencing 4. Thuja

1 2

2 3 4 5 6

SECTION A-A 1. Nandina domestica 2. Berberis atropurpurea 3. Photinia fraseri ‘Red Robin’ 4. Green concrete 5. Laurus nobilis / Thuja (1 per 3m) 6. Fencing

1 3.0

SECTION B-B 1. Green concrete

WATER BASIN PATH

1. Water mirror

HILL SECTION

GREEN RAY NO. 7 & PORTELLO PARK

MILAN GREEN RAY NO. 7

HILL SECTION

Overall Portello Park presents the history of Milan in its three large landforms (Prehistory, History and the Present) and a more individual relationship to the theme of time in the small garden, by the hospital to the north. Thus personal time is contrasted with the many rhythms of time and they are marked in the paving and planting. One enters from the west, through a short walk with planting borders to either side. These frame out the rest of the garden, only allowing exits between the seasons.

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HILL SECTIONs

In these gardens, both circular and linear time can be found: - The four circles signify the four seasons of universe (prehistory, history, present, future) and four seasons in a year (winter, summer…). Each season has three months written on metal aluminum “blades” that have their names laser-cut, as voids: (January, February…). Between them are grass “moundettes” (for sunbathing). These rise and fall like the basic rhythm of time, and opposite are four banks of hardy shrubs, with color and perfume that are present four times a year. Mahonia Japonica comes out yellow in winter; Azaleas turn bright in spring; Choisea is white in summer, and Clerodendrum trichotomum in autumn. Thus each season has its strong color and scent. But life is always surprised by one-off events. Thus, seats punctuate the Time Garden as do the diagonals of the trees and grasses. - Black and white tile signifies night and day. There are 365 steps in the Time Garden – one year. - The Time Garden signifies also the time of universe unfolding over 13.7 billion years (marked in metal plates). - Each rhythm of time has a specific shape, a very personal form, from our heartbeat (made in Rizzada — typical construction material in Milan) and individual step to the oscillations of day and night. - The explication of all these meanings are in four areas cross the circles.

WATER BASIN PATH

Scale 1:20 SECTION A-A 1. Alternate Berberis atropurpurea and Nandina domestica

Scale 1: 100

2. Photinia fraseri “Red Robin” 1

3. Green concrete SP. 15cm

2 3

SPIRAL

1. Time way at spring time 2. Park paths 3. Time walk path 4. Portello Park by night

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ThyssenKrupp Headquarters Landscape Architect: KLA kiparlandschaftsarchitekten GmbH - Member of LAND Group Location: Essen, Germany

Like other former industrial cities such as London, Barcelona, Milan and Turin, the city of Essen has to face enormous efforts to restructure its industrial heritage. In order to revitalize an area of over 230ha between the city center and Essen-Altendorf, the city of Essen together with ThyssenKrupp AG realized the Krupp-Belt, a green and permeable structure, formed by the Krupp-Park and the ThyssenKrupp Headquarters. Thus the return of ThyssenKrupp to its roots was made possible: the Krupp AG was founded in the year 1811 on the very same spot, today brought to attention by the reconstruction of the parent house of Friedrich Krupp in the center of the area. At the same time the city of Essen gains a restructured green joint, which had been inaccessible for its inhabitants for nearly 200 years. 2

1. Central water basin 2. Areal view 3. LAND-Logo at Krupp-Park

For the central area around the new headquarters building by JSWD architects, the open space concept follows the guideline of an open campus. A â&#x20AC;&#x153;green carpetâ&#x20AC;? fulfills two opposed requirements: on the one hand there is a demand of an urban density, and on the other hand newly built structure is supposed to represent permeability and generosity in aspects of open and green space. The design of the public open space therefore is a main actor of the architectural concept, since the public space between buildings has always been the font of the high quality of grown European cities. Therefore today landscape architecture is an indispensable link between an often ensembleoriented urban planning process and the quality standard of an innovative and sustainable architecture.

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Project Name: Thyssen Krupp Headquarters Completion Date: 2013 Principal Landscape Architect: Andreas Kipar, KLA Architect: JSWD Architects, Köln Area: 20ha Photographer: KLA kiparlandschaftsarchitekten GmbH, Marcel Weste, ThyssenKrupp AG, Lukas Roth

RAINWATER MANAGEMENT PLAYGROUND SKETCH

1. Roof drainage 2. Roof drainage max. 1620 l/s 3. Sewer overflow 4. Siphon max 520 l/s 5. Open drainage channel 6. Krupp lake 7. Overflow into Salzerbach max. 560 l/s 8. Krupp Park “Five Hills” Drainage 167 l/s

9. Siphon

10. Reservoir (in planning) 11. Drainage on surface max 580 l/s 2

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10 11

8 7

VEGETATION AS A BUILDING STRUCTURE The vegetation consists of shrubs and trees and is getting WALL FOR NOISE PROTECTION

lighter toward the center of the park. Visual axes are provided from the park toward the ThyssenKrupp Headquarters as well as the quarter of Altendorf.

Following the Masterplan of the ThyssenKrupp Headquarters, the open space is structured according to the various utilizations. A long water basin as the central structure emphasizes the architecture of the main building in its urban character and builds up the backbone of the “green passe-partout:” 700 trees are guiding through the space, opening up new perspectives and are shaping and coloring the campus area. Thus the new urban landscape connects the architecture visually and spatially with the single parts of the green carpet.

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1. Rainwater lake 2. Culvert for rainwater

PARK SECTIONS

RAINWATER LAKE RENDERING

CULVERT SKETCH

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1. Steel edge ST 37/2, 125/6/ >500mm

1. 45cm washed sand 0/2

2 3

2. Punctual foundation, concrete C 12/15

2. Concrete slabs 40×40×5cm

4 5

3. 2cm crushed stone 0/4 4. 4cm stone chippings 2/5

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5. 30cm gravel base layer 0/32

6 7

3. Protective layer for drainage, 300g/m2

5. Drainage pipe DN 100, plastic

4. 20cm gravel 0/32 6. Back support concrete C 12/15

6. Lawn

7. Border made of recycling rubber 100×5×25cm 8. Lawn SECTION

SECTION

Paths with waterbound pavement and steel edge

Sand play area with rubber border

5 6 7 8

1 2 3 4

1. Line of stretchers, concrete paving stones

1. 4cm top layer red asphalt

1 2 3 4 5

20×10×8cm, on 3cm sand bedding 0/4 2. 2cm crushed stone 0/4 3. 4cm stone chippings 2/5

2. 8cm bituminous base layer 3. 20cm gravel base layer 0/32 4. 32cm frost protection layer, gravel 0/45 5. Lawn

4. 30cm gravel base layer 0/32 5. Block step, precast concrete element, 150×35/40×15cm 6. 5cm bedding, cement mortar MG Ⅲ

7. 60cm in-situ concrete foundation, reinforced C 25/30 8. 10cm granular subbase, gravel 0/32 SECTION

9. Waterbound pavement

Paths with steps

1 2 3 4 5

SECTION Main paths with red asphalt

1. Line of stretchers, concrete paving

1 2 3 4

6 7 8

5 6

stones 20×10×8cm, on 3cm sand bedding 0/4 2. 2cm crushed stone 0/4

1. 1.5cm top layer EDPM 2. Mesh

3. 4cm stone chippings 2/5

3. 4cm elastic layer

4. 40cm gravel base layer 0/32 5. Block step, precast concrete element,

4. 3cm bound base layer

150×35×17cm

5. 30cm unbound base layer 0/32

6. In-situ concrete foundation C 12/15

6. Back support concrete C 12/15 SECTION Play area with rubber border

7. Border made of recycling rubber 100×5×25cm 8. Lawn

7. Waterbound pavement

SECTION Main paths with steps

PARK CONNECTIONS SKETCHES

Besides the known style of European architecture, the main ingredients of European landscape architecture, such as water, lawn, alleys, groves, paved areas and compact squares are used for the design. To emphasize these elements, the basic green carpet itself is undulating.

1. Plateau at rainwater lake 2. Noise protection wall 3. Walking on the hills 4. Playground

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1. Grand opening 2. Alley of the World

WATER BASSIN RENDERING + FLOOR PLAN + SKETCH

THYSSENKRUPP QUARTER AND KRUPP-PARK MASTERPLAN

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Cut by bright “fast ways” – deliberately non-synchronized with the orthogonal structure of the urban layout – the impressive structure of the broad water basin represents the center of communication in the open space design, accompanied by the “Alley of the World,” a 235-meter-long gallery of nature. The 68 trees consist of 15 species from 5 continents.

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ATRIUM FLOOR PLAN

ALLEY OF THE WORLD FLOOR PLAN

SECTION SKETCH

According to the Masterplan, only 1/3 of the surface consists of paved areas. The concept of sustainability provides a complex rainwater management: the full amount of rainwater of all roofs is led into the lake of the nearby KruppPark, a public area offering lots of activities, also designed by KLA kiparlandschaftsarchitekten GmbH, which is reconnected to the local water system. ATRIUM SECTION AA

The new ThyssenKrupp Headquarters integrates the industrial heritage with the future demands on sustainable urban planning. It represents an ongoing process, in which landscape architecture provides an intelligent green infrastructure on the way to a green city. 1. Headquarters by JSWD, seen from Krupp-Park 2. Alley of the World

ATRIUM SECTION BB