{"id":2645,"date":"2018-08-05T04:02:51","date_gmt":"2018-08-05T04:02:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.studiovulkan.ch\/projects\/2301-park-der-begegnungen-heidelberg\/"},"modified":"2025-12-03T11:18:45","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T11:18:45","slug":"2301-park-of-encounters-heidelberg","status":"publish","type":"projects","link":"https:\/\/www.studiovulkan.ch\/en\/projects\/2301-park-of-encounters-heidelberg\/","title":{"rendered":"2301 Park of Encounters Heidelberg"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9ba6dbca wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\"><h1 class=\"wp-block-post-title has-small-font-size\">2301 Park of Encounters Heidelberg<\/h1>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Location: <br>Heidelberg, Germany <br><br>Project Phases: <br>Competition 2018, 1st Prize; Realization 2018 &#8211; 2022 <br><br>Client: <br>City of Heidelberg, IBA Heidelberg <br><br>Planning Team: <br>Studio Vulkan Landscape Architecture, Robin Winogrond, Faktorgr\u00fcn, Denkstatt S\u00e0rl, IBV H\u00fcsler <br><br>Photography: <br>Daniela Valentini, Studio Vulkan<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Details:<\/p>\n\n\n<ul class=\"project-tags-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.studiovulkan.ch\/en\/projects\/tag\/concrete\/\">[concrete]<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.studiovulkan.ch\/en\/projects\/tag\/furniture\/\">[furniture]<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.studiovulkan.ch\/en\/projects\/tag\/park\/\">[park]<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.studiovulkan.ch\/en\/projects\/tag\/reuse\/\">[reuse]<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-medium-font-size\">Between Memory and Reinterpretation<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe Other Park\u201d in Heidelberg is a site steeped in complex history &#8211; once home to NS, NATO, and military institutions. What remains are the artifacts of a heavy past. Yet rather than being erased or concealed, the site is thoughtfully transformed &#8211; reframed with a sense of irony and interpreted anew with a subtle, knowing eye.<br><br>In 2018, Studio Vulkan won the competition initiated by the International Building Exhibition (IBA) Heidelberg. The task was to reimagine a former military compound as a public space for the emerging \u201cKnowledge City,\u201d integrating it into the civic realm. Crucially, the design was not to overwrite the site&#8217;s layered history, but to weave it into a new, forward-looking identity.<br><br>The former barracks grounds are transformed into a Park of Encounters. Spaces such as the Gatehouse Square, Parade Ground, Riding Arena, and the historic Commissary Park &#8211; along with the interstitial streets and leftover zones &#8211; become reinterpreted and renamed places of social life: Forum, Culture Market, Common Ground, and Showcase. The memory of the place is preserved, yet the meanings of its objects and spaces are shifted, disrupted, and reassembled.<br><br>Historical artifacts &#8211; ranging from surveillance cameras and seating to lighting and paving &#8211; are collected, distorted, and scenographically re-staged. A red band of recycled concrete pavers from the 1970s, shredded and reused on site, traces a connective thread across the landscape. It links people, places, histories, and moments &#8211; lending the park cohesion and rhythm.<br><br>A former checkpoint becomes a playground. The Gatehouse Square, once filled with posts, cameras, and signage, is now deliberately overloaded &#8211; playfully exaggerated with sound installations, bird nests, and performative elements. The former perimeter wall of the barracks is opened up, transformed into a permeable, vibrant zone of exchange along R\u00f6merstra\u00dfe.<br><br>The result is a space that does not deny its difficult past but instead makes it accessible, tangible, and &#8211; through a quietly ironic lens &#8211; invites reinterpretation. 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