GERMAN-POLISH GARDENS

Restoration and revitalization of the linear park

Location: Warsaw – Praga Południe, Aleja Wedla
Client: Foundation for German-Polish Cooperation
Year: 2016–2017
Service phases: Preparation and Brief, Concept Design, Developed Design (HOAI 1–4)
Area: 25.600 m²
Construction costs: 1,46 Mio. €

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.

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Overall plan of the park

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.

The linear shape and the existing planting form the starting point for the spatial redesign and the updating of usage according to new user ideas.

The path system is largely preserved. The existing 300–400 m² terraces on the hillside will turn into “garden inlays” and thus becoming the intense places of the park. Path coverings, equipment and planting, including topsoil renewal, will be renovated on the remaining areas.

Planned trees and shrubs complete the design. The existing planting will be partially renewed or maintained.

Entrance Zieleniecka

Before revitalization

After revitalization

In the area of the “garden inlays” and the widening along the Allee der Freunde, the play elements for children and young people alongside with meeting and activity areas for older people are planned. Innovative forms of public participation with an ecological and social background are also planned.