Studio Karst

City Park

Beerstecker Hofgarten, Dubendorf, CH

Concept for transforming a former agricultural production site into a city park in two phases over 20 years.

This was an unusual competition in that exclusively female landscape architects were invited to take part. The brief called for a vision for a Central Park-scale green space within a planned block-frame development by Caruso St John Architects in the agglomeration of Dübendorf. The sheer number of anticipated future residents and foreseen public uses of the park required a particularly sensitive handling of private-public spheres as well as a coherent concept to drive the project through development phases spanning 20 years.

Client:
The Beerstecker Family
Phases:
Invited competition, 2nd Place, 2022
Analysis sketch of site watershed
Sketch showing high water table
1:100 concept plan
1:100 sketch sections through the project
1:100 concept sketch of proposed nature reserve
1:100 sketch studies of transition from private to public areas
1:100 sketch studies of transition from private to public areas

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