Land Lines
29.01.2010 - 22.04.2010
Berlin, AedesLand, Savignyplatz, Else-Ury-Bogen 600 , Germany
Lines serve the opening up, the bounding, the structuring of Landscape: taking on form as canals, paths, wall edges, acoustic barriers, forest aisles and visual axis lines to be creative agents, that qualify surrounding environments, AedesLand presents the constructed open space projects by Winfried H?fner and his team, and their accomplished competency with Lines in Landscape Architecture.The design intent is for lines to be creative agents, that qualify and differentiate surrounding environments, and that give character to newly made open space. As built elements they stage special places, while leaving the remaining landscape undisturbed, or as organisational interventions they manifest the divisions between areas, achieving clarity through sharpness of contrast. They envision a stage and open up distinct places. As a strategy, the line sits, like a precious intarsia, as usable, intensified open/public space in a wider stretch of land.
AedesLand presents the constructed open space projects by Winfried H?fner and his team, and their accomplished competency with Lines in the Landscape: a Berlin waters edge, a noise barrier in Wolfsburg, the regeneration of the lost centre of Sta?furt in the periphery of Leipzig, together with planned projects for Leipzig Harbour and for the Energy Mountain Georgswerder in Hamburg-Wihelmsburg.
H?fner / Jimenez was established in Berlin, in 1993, by Winfried H?fner and Julia Jimenez. Together with Jens Betcke, Thomas Jarosch and six colleagues, this landscape architecture practice has undertaken projects in Berlin, Hamburg and Leipzig. The work of the practice has been awarded the Renault Traffic Design Award, the Leipzig City Architecture Prize and the Gustav Meyer Prize on two occasions. The practice has four large projects in Spandau Wasserstadt. This year, it will complete a project on the Greening of the riverbank on the Eiswerder Island, and a Park at the East Side Gallery in Fredrichshain Kreuzberg. |
January 2010
