INTERNATIONAL GARDEN SHOW 2013, HAMBURG VALENTINA PENARANDA ARMBRECHT
HAMBURG • Hamburg is an industrial city with extended green areas. It is the Germany ´ s second largest industrial location and simultaneously a city and a state, one of the greenest cities in the country. • Its land surface is dedicated 41% to agriculture, but it also contains many parks, public gardens, garden plots, woodlands, moors and heaths. The landscape reserves and nature reserves cover almost the 30% percent of the city’s area. • knowing that it is an industrial city with a huge harbour the presence of these green areas is fundamental in order to balance natural areas and man-made environments. • Water is also a very important element because of the strong influence of the harbour and the two lakes: “Außenalster” and “Binnenalster” in the centre of the city. • In order to develop my thesis, I tried to keep in mind the factors that previously defined Hamburg in the context of its history and environment. I also intended to reflect the identity of a city by means of the architecture and landscape architecture; uptaking elements such as culture, history and nature allowed me to finally give a complete design. The International Garden Show (IGS) was an excellent opportunity to begin to develop these ideas.
HISTORY OF HAMBURG -The cosmopolitan city of Hamburg has 1,7 million inhabitants. It was founded around 1175 years ago as a small village named Hammaburg, that consisted of a moated castle built between the Alster and Elbe river. Hamburg in the year of 1150
-In the XII century the emperor Barbarossa is said to have granted free access up the Lower Elbe to Hamburg in a charter guaranteeing the merchants and mariners of Hamburg freedom for all customs duties and tolls, ensuring the city ´ s future. -In the year of 1520, the city authorities embraced lutheranism, and as a result Hamburg received Protestant refugees from the Netherlands and France. At this time the city was under the Danish sovereignty -In 1550, the city became one of the most important ports of entry in all Europe -Today Hamburg ´ s look belies its real age. The city was almost destroyed by the “Great Fire” in 1842 and during the Second World War it was almost completely destroyed again Hamburg in the year of the Great Fire (1842)
The islands on the Elbe (today Wilhelmsburg) in 1568
HAMBURG METROPOLI: AN EXPANDING CITY Many experts had declared that the cities in Germany were shrinking and as a result losing importance and economy. But Hamburg is different; the expansion of the city is not only quantitative but also qualitative. One of the most important tasks is to make Hamburg attractive on an international scale by expanding its function as a metropolis, allowing a bigger population. Hamburg in pictures: Harbour, City Hall, Gänsemarkt, Blankenese, Alster Lake.
ACTUAL PROJECTS IN HAMBURG HafenCity This is a major urban expansion project in the city of Hamburg, having as a principal element the harbour (Hafen).
A leap across the Elbe (International Building Exhibition 2013) The project ´ s name suggests the idea: to make a “leap” to the south. These “islands” in between the river are used as port areas, industrial areas and infrastructural alignments. The potential of these areas is also well known. They consist of a lot of green area, water and space that can be used also for living, industry and environment.
LAND USES IN HAMBURG
GREEN AREAS INSIDE HAMBURG
Nature protection areas and landscape conservation areas in Hamburg
Green arms in Hamburg
INTERNATIONAL GARDEN SHOW 2013 -The international Garden Show will take place in 2013, it will be also one of the important projects of “Leap across the Elbe”, combine at the same time with an International Building Exhibition. -This IGS is located on the centre of Wilhelmsburg, on the south of Hamburg. -The area looks gradually abandoned, and gives the image of a landscape of the 19 century that had been changed for the intensive use of the industry leaving many big green areas and water, as a result of the flood in 1962. -This new park will be an important link with the city of Hamburg, because of its location and the space. With this IGS 2013, Hamburg receives the possibility to have a new area in the south with a modern identity and a family-friendly area.
Total area: 95 ha Total area: 95 ha Distribution of the areas: 22 ha. Park 3 ha. Playground 6 ha water 27 ha landscape-park 27 ha allotments 3,7 ha cemetery Mengestraße only during the exhibition : 17 ha international gardens and theme-gardens Is very important to enhance the theme of the “international” during the exhibition, because will be gardens of many different places of the world, is good to know that in the area nowadays are living families of 37 different countries
Transport around the IGS
Principal pedestrian paths in the plot
Pictures of the plot and Wilhelmsburg 1.Water tower 2.Lake inside the plot 3. Railway 4. Entrance bridge
5. River Elbe 6. Aerial view from north 7. Aerial view: principal entrance. 8. Aerial view near the plot
9. Aerial view: River Elbe 10. Allotments 11. Allotments 12.Allotments
13. Lake inside the plot 14. Agriculture near the plot 15. and 16. Typical architecture: combination of big buildings and houses, mixture of residential areas.
POTENTIALS *-Big and free area in between the island of Wilhelmsburg * -Wilhelmsburg have around 700 years of cultural history and and because of that an unique cultural landscape. * -The area (specially the area of the IGS) has a unique natural landscape and biotope, with water. -This is an area located in between of a quarter (a neighborhood), wich allow to have the nature very near and big spaces for the recreation. -There are inside the plot very important buildings, like: the City Hall, The Community Center, The Church, the Water Tower of Wilhelmsburg and the Train station. * -The possibilities for the transport are really good: by water (on the river or the lakes), by train, by car, by byke and walking. -The connection to the city is excellent, not only because of the transport but also the green connections and water connections. * -With the IGS the people who are living in Hamburg will be know the area and they will keep visiting it. That will probably change the negative image of the place. -Many of the people who is living in the area are from different countries and this will allow to know other cultures.
PROBLEMS * -The shores of the river island of Wilhelmsburg are difficult to access and their identity is completely different: industry. * -Wilhelmsburg has a very negative image to have a strong social problems and abandoned areas (for the industry). -A noise problem because of the train and the big streets * -A difficult accessibility inside the plot. * -The roads are dividing the plot, creating fragmentation. -Not many people in Hamburg know this area. -The lakes and the ponds need maintenance and care. * -There are no objetives for the uses of the plot and around it, for example, creation of new playgrounds.
OBJETIVES (solutions) * -Creation and design of the IGS having as a principal objective the development of the free space and green areas of the island of Wilhelmsburg. * -To create an international image, that is a potential that the place already have. The idea is to change it in something positive. The IGS is like a social action to achieve this purpose. * -Protection of the nature as something unique (biotops) and the water. * -To join to the green arm of the city. -To create easy connections for the access of the people who live in the areas. * -To create connections (for example with bridges and spaces) to avoid urban and green fragmentation . * -The creation of a new center in the south of Hamburg. -Expansion of the city to the south. * -Old industrial areas require the creation of new uses and new visions according to the necessities of the city. -To create awareness and conscience about the nature and how to protect it. -Create new uses of the areas inside the plot. -Try to avoid the entrance of the noise from the railways and roads to the plot (for example with noise barriers). * -To have more contact and access to the water and riversides, also to have transport using water. -To give an image of the international of the place, using the designs of gardens from many countries. * -To have the allotments as a part of the exhibition, giving education and information about it .
METHODS: SCHEMES Satellite picture of Hamburg: important green connections between the city and the plot
Green areas, important infrastructure connections and areas to be developed
ACTUAL SCHEMES OF THE IGS PLOT Water Allotments
Green areas Topography
CITYSCAPE INSIDE THE PLOT
PROPOSALS PROPOSALS
JOINING PEDESTRIAN KNOTS ALONG THE WAY AND GREEN AXIS
PRINCIPAL SCHEME AND CONCEPT
PROPOSAL FOR USES
PROPOSAL FOR PATHS
Playgrounds and sport areas Noise barrier
Proposed new green areas and water. Proposed new areas to build .
PLANS
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