Canaletto

Freiräume entlang des Nymphenburg-Biedersteiner-Kanals

Semester Project M.A. Landscape Architecture, Winter Semester 2018/19

Topic

Elector Max. II Emmanuel had the Nymphenburg-Biedersteiner Canal built at the beginning of the 18th century as part of baroque urban planning in the open, rural landscape. Water bodies and roads were used equally as a means of urban planning - the main road connection to the city of Munich was planned to run in a southeasterly direction, equivalent to the northeasterly direction of the canal. The opening of Bad Gern and beer gardens led to the development of the future districts of Nederling and Gern. Today, the canal traverses the most diverse epochs of Munich's urban expansion history and serves as a city-crossing open space structure for people and animals. It is constantly changing its face: from the baroque canal to the meandering Olympic Lake, from the Petuelpark completed in 2004 to the Schwabing Lake from the 1980s.

Task

The open space characters of the Nymphenburg-Biedersteiner Canal have to be recorded in its entire extent and hidden structures and qualities have to be made visible in a superordinate concept. In addition, concrete designs and interventions/activations will be used to critically examine the existing urban, open space and ecological structures. The intensive inclusion of the concerns of monument protection, nature conservation as well as current and future open space uses along the canal is of outstanding importance here. The various research topics will be edited as part of the integrated discipline and prepared for an exhibition.