Louis Hafliger Park

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The grass field with the pyramid-shaped grass hills

The Louis-Häfliger-Park is a 5,000 square meter large public park in the district of Oerlikon in Zurich between production de Oerlikon Contraves and residential complex Regina-Kägi-Hof. It is named after Louis Häfliger , a Swiss bank employee who became known as the savior of Mauthausen and who, with his act in May 1945, ensured that around 40,000 prisoners from the Mauthausen concentration camp were liberated.

layout

For the design of the Louis-Häfliger Park was created by the City of Zurich Green , a competition in 2000, the won the office for landscape architecture Kuhn and Truninger with their project "Quilt". Together with Pascal Wiedemann, Zurich, and Grego & Smolenicky Architektur, Zurich, the work was completed after a construction period of 10 months and the park was inaugurated on August 30, 2003.

In terms of design, the project authors adhered to the principle of not adding anything new, but only incorporating what already existed. The project is characterized by the various fields that are put together like a patchwork quilt, or "quilt", to form a whole.

The paved tree field is planted with wingnut trees (pterocarya) and extends over the entire length of the park. In the event of heavy rain, the rainwater temporarily accumulates over the flat retention funnels and forms mirror surfaces. This refers to the high groundwater level on the area, which reaches 80 centimeters below the surface.

In the zone along Binzmühlestrasse there is a gravel field with red gravel, willow bushes and benches. It is lit by thirty yellow, hemispherical lights attached to the ground and arranged as a field of flowers, which are normally used on road dividers.

The grass field, intended as a playground, reveals a piece of local history: eight pyramid-shaped elevations represent the reverse shape of the ammunition laboratories of the Oerlikon Contraves, which were previously sunk into the ground at this point. The all-weather surface of the blue tartan playing field, which is framed with a ball catcher, allows year-round sporting activities.

The park is cut up by a narrow red play tape with swings, slides, bars and climbing equipment mounted on the synthetic surface. A wooden stage is available for all kinds of activities.

  • The "turtle" lights on the gravel field in the dark

  • Play band with grass field on the right and tree field on the left

  • Sports field with all-weather floor

literature

  • Yvonne Aellen, Ella Kienast: Parks in Neu-Oerlikon. Oerlikerpark, MFO-Park, Louis-Häfliger-Park, Wahlenpark, Gustav-Ammann-Park. 2nd edition Zurich: Green City of Zurich, 2005. 22 pp.
  • Claudia Moll: Zurich, a companion to new landscape architecture. Edition garden + landscape. Munich: Georg DW Callwey GmbH & Co. KG, 2006. 78 pp. ISBN 3-7667-1680-8 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Media release of the City of Zurich from August 25, 2003 ( Memento of the original from January 15, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.stadt-zuerich.ch
  2. ↑ A patchwork garden for the quarter. Suzanne Kappeler in: Grünzeit, 2003 (6), pp. 8-10
  3. ↑ Colorful multifunction. The Louis Häfliger neighborhood park. Waltraud Aberle in: Der Gartenbau, 2003 (17), pp. 6-7

Web links

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Coordinates: 47 ° 24 '44.7 "  N , 8 ° 32' 1.7"  E ; CH1903:  682,653  /  251866