READING PARK OF THE SAXON STATE, STATE AND UNIVERSITY LIBRARY DRESDEN
Framed by aging lime trees
Location: Dresden, Germany
Client: The Free State of Saxony
Year: 2002
Service phases: Preparation and Brief, Concept Design, Developed Design, Technical Design, partially Construction (HOAI 1–7 (8))
Construction costs: 3,25 Mio. €
Landscape architecture: S. Tischer, project management Joerg Coqui
Architecture: Ortner und Ortner Baukunst
The new building of the Sächsische Landes‑, Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Dresden (Dresden library) is the new centre of the Dresden “Hochschulachse” – university axis. The library is influenced by the landscape and open space circumstances of the city. The “green roof” of the building is designed as a landscape terrace of the Räcknitz slope and forms the library’s reading park. Its aura is shaped by grand lime trees standing on the embankment. These surround it on three sides and originate from the sports field that had previously been on this site
Complementary recreational areas subordinate to the basic form of the landscape terrace are:
– the semi-circular entrance courtyard
– the green atrium cut into the lawn roof
– the seating areas under the ornamental cherry trees on the
lawn roof
