GARDEN TO THE SKY
In the German-Polish Gardens
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: 900 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.
German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier planting a tree in the German-Polish Gardens in 2018 — © Adam Burakowski
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.
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On two terraces located on the slope of Kamionkowskie Lake, there is a ‘Garden to the Sky’ in the form of two garden inlays with symbolic meaning, which are a place of intense relaxation in the Polish-German Gardens.
© Natalia Kobza
Before revitalization
After revitalization
© Adam Bury / PUCZYŃSKI — mała architektura
Garden to the Sky – Wavy Bench
To mark the 25th anniversary of neighbourly relations, a 25-metre-long ‘wave bench’ was created, floating in the garden landscape. where, on loungers, platforms, steps and hammocks, with your gaze in the clouds, you can ponder the ‘historical’ passage of time while catching a moment of rest in the Polish-German Gardens.
Everyone is welcome here.
The ‘wave bench’ is an original design by the COQUI MALACHOWSKA COQUI studio, created especially for the 25th anniversary of the signing of the Treaty of Good Neighbourliness, and is used in other places where it is important for people to be able to meet.
© Adam Bury / PUCZYŃSKI — mała architektura
© Adam Burakowski
Besuch von Bundespräsident Steinmeier 2018 — © Adam Burakowski
GARDEN TO THE SKY – HIGH SWING
Here you can push off and almost touch the sky with the wind in your hair. The four-metre-high swing lets you leave reality behind and swing in the symbolic east-west rhythm of the garden in the German-Polish Gardens.
Tall grasses border the garden on both sides. This is a place for young and old, for big and small.
© Magda Przedmojska
Before revitalization
After revitalization
