The framework for the task was the planning of the new “Bahnstadt” in Nürtingen.
Within this framework, concepts for the redesigned station square in Nürtingen were developed. The university was assumed to be a direct neighbour in the new building.

Supervision:                                           Prof. Dr.-Ing. Birgit Kröniger                Dipl.-Ing. Max Hansen                         Prof. Dr.-Ing. Henning Krug

The students’ task was to design a district park in Wangen. They had to deal with a very elongated planning area.

A further focus was on movement facilities and integration into the urban environment.

Supervision:                                          Prof. Dr.-Ing. Birgit Kröniger              Dipl.-Ing. Max Hansen                           Prof. Dr.-Ing. Henning Krug

In the module “Solving complex design tasks”, the 6th semester dealt with Europaplatz in Mannheim. This is a large, traffic-dominated square right at the entrance to Mannheim.

Dealing with a wide variety of challenges was the focus of the project.

In addition to the conventional submission formats, an animated GIF was required to represent the design idea.

Supervision:                                           Prof. Dipl.-Ing. Rainer Sachse              Dipl.-Ing. Annegret Stöcker

In the module “Solving complex design tasks”, the 6th semester dealt with Europaplatz in Mannheim. This is a large, traffic-dominated square right at the entrance to Mannheim.

The project focused on dealing with a wide range of challenges.

Supervisors:                                           Prof. Dipl.-Ing. Rainer Sachse              Dipl.-Ing. Annegret Stöcker

The students’ task was to redesign various small areas of accompanying greenery up to sealed surfaces in the municipality of Kuchen (cake).

The whole thing took place within the framework of a competition in cooperation with the municipal council.

Supervisor: Dipl.-Ing. Britta Eiermann

In the execution planning module of the 6th semester building specialization, natural stone walls were analyzed according to various assessment criteria in order to understand their construction method. Furthermore, an execution planning was prepared for a design project of the lower semesters.

Supervisor: Prof. Sigurd Henne

Supervisor: Prof. Sidurg Henne

In the 4th semester of the specialization Design, the students accompany three plantings each over the entire summer semester. In the process, a planting book with various analysis sheets and as-built plans is created.
In the next step, an alternative planting concept and associated plans are developed for a planting area.

Supervisor: Prof. Sigurd Henne

As part of the module Designing for Specific User Groups, the 3rd semester students looked for a real place, analyzed it, and then redesigned it accordingly. In the process, diverse and graphically high-quality works were created.

Supervisor: Prof. Rainer Sachse

In the 3rd semester we have the big Mainau project coming up. For further inspiration we went to the Netherlands for four days. There we visited many interesting projects in Amsterdam, Utrecht and Maastricht, all in terms of landscape architecture and urban development!

Supervisors:
Prof. Dr. Cornelia Bott
Prof. Dr. Sigurd Hen
Prof. Dr. Rainer Sachse

Photos: L. Bader, H. Both

How can renewable resources become part of our urban landscape? Research is being conducted on this topic in the forest laboratory in Cologne. The idea is to use domestic plants for energy supply instead of ecologically dead corn and rape cultures. Students of landscape architecture and architecture from four universities spent a week together in the forest laboratory to get to know the new energy landscapes and to deal with them creatively. Fascinating plant sculptures were created, which are to make the population aware of the beauty of the new forest forms.
To document the resulting works, small videos were shot instead of making drawings or plans.

More about the forest laboratory project can be found >here.

The Forest Laboratory Workshop was organized by the RWTH Aachen University and carried out together with the HFWU Nürtingen, the TU München, the Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture de Paris La Villette and the Alanus Hochschule Alfter.

Supervisor (HFWU):
Prof. Rainer Sachse

videos: The videos were shot by the respective editors.

In no other city is currently more happening in landscape architecture than in Hamburg – so we had to go there! Practically, our semester project also took place in Hamburg. For four days we explored exciting places of Hamburg by water and by land…