COQUI MALACHOWSKA COQUI

ICON_V2_IK

GARDEN OF (NATIONAL) COLOURS

In the Ger­man-Polish Gar­dens

Loca­ti­on: War­saw, Pol­and
Cli­ent: Foun­da­ti­on for Ger­man-Polish Coope­ra­ti­on
Year: 2018–2020
Ser­vice pha­ses: Pre­pa­ra­ti­on and Brief, Con­cept Design, Deve­lo­ped Design, Tech­ni­cal Design, Con­s­truc­tion (HOAI 1–8)
Area: 550 m²

The Polish-Ger­man Gar­dens in Ska­ry­szew­ski Park in War­saw were crea­ted on the initia­ti­ve of the Ger­man Embas­sy in coope­ra­ti­on with the City of War­saw to mark the 25th anni­ver­sa­ry of the sig­ning of the ‘Trea­ty of Good Neigh­bour­line­ss and Fri­end­ly Coope­ra­ti­on’ bet­ween the Fede­ral Repu­blic of Ger­ma­ny and the Repu­blic of Pol­and.

> Pro­jekt Zie­lo­ne Mias­to

> More infor­ma­ti­on on the gar­den’s web­site

 

Befo­re revi­ta­liza­ti­on

The park was one of the pro­jects we pro­po­sed as part of the Green City pro­ject we cura­ted (Zie­lo­ne Mias­to pro­ject) for the embas­sy’s anni­ver­sa­ry year, and in the fol­lo­wing years it deve­lo­ped into a pro­ject that was sup­port­ed finan­ci­al­ly by poli­ti­cal repre­sen­ta­ti­ves as well as pri­va­te indi­vi­du­als or by par­ti­ci­pa­ting in the plan­ting of num­e­rous trees in Wedel Ave­nue.

The then cul­tu­ral atta­ché of the embas­sy, Fried Niel­sen, and the direc­tor of the Ger­man-Polish Foun­da­ti­on, Cor­ne­li­us Och­mann, as well as the many pro­ject part­ners who made co-finan­cing pos­si­ble, play­ed a key role in the suc­cess of the pro­ject.

> More about the park

The Gar­den of (Natio­nal) Colours is the first of the rea­li­sed Ger­man-Polish gar­dens.

In spring, bul­bous plants and peren­ni­als bloom here in shades of red and white. The blos­so­ming rock pears and app­les as well as hawt­horns com­ple­te the com­po­si­ti­on, which chan­ges in autumn from yel­low, oran­ge and red to the rare bla­cki­sh hues of the folia­ge.

The natio­nal colours meet in the gar­den in a sym­bo­lic way, just as resi­dents and guests meet in the gar­den sit­ting next to each other on the bench.

The long ben­ches with back­rests invi­te you to relax and offer a view of the colour com­po­si­ti­ons of the deco­ra­ti­ve bor­ders, which are plan­ted with gras­ses and struc­tu­red by low hedges. The gar­den is clo­sed off from the lake by a wide bor­der at pave­ment level, which invi­tes peo­p­le to sit and sun­ba­the infor­mal­ly.

A Schwen­gel water pump and the water run­ning in a shal­low chan­nel offer visi­tors the oppor­tu­ni­ty for phy­si­cal exer­cise on the one hand and invi­te them to look after the plants on the other, as this gar­den is main­tai­ned by the com­mu­ni­ty. This is the Park Initia­ti­ve’s first com­mu­ni­ty gar­den!

After revi­ta­liza­ti­on

© Joan­na Jan­eca

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