Humboldt Volcano is shortlisted as a candidate for Social Design Award by DER SPIEGEL.
The Social Design Award honours special urban development projects.
Social Design Award @ DER SPIEGEL, Germany, 29 September-26 October 2017
What would happen if a volcano erupted next to the Humboldt Forum? If trees and exotic plants proliferate, and a waterfall cascade?
Hybrid Space Lab developed the utopia of an extension to the Humboldt Forum: a vertical jungle consisting of terraces, a winter garden with a public path leading to the roof garden, referring to the explorer Alexander von Humboldt.
As a stacked oasis, which integrates vegetation in the built environment, Humboldt Volcano brings solutions for the integration of green in very dense urban situations. Hybrid Space Lab understands this idea as part of the urban redevelopment and the possibility to establish an unconventional green space in very dense public space.
Alexander von Humboldt developed the idea that all nature is connected, and pioneered concepts of sustainability. Today, the project Humboldt Forum that has his name is without any green space whatsoever.
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The Social Design Award, which SPIEGEL ONLINE and SPIEGEL WISSEN are now organising for the fourth time, is all about creating public, community life in public green spaces.
By Marianne Wellershoff
26.04.2017, 5.52 pm
Large parks, small meadows, traffic islands, wasteland: There are many green islands in cities. These are places where people can relax and read a book in peace, where children can play. But this is also where community life can be organised: with park festivals, concerts, sports clubs, urban gardening, renaturation campaigns.
It is precisely such projects that are being sought for the Social Design Award, which SPIEGEL ONLINE and SPIEGEL WISSEN, supported by Bauhaus, are organising for the fourth time this year. Anyone has until 31 August to submit their ideas that bring life to our green spaces and aim to create a sense of togetherness and togetherness in these places.
There are two prizes to be won, each worth 2500 euros: One winner will be chosen by the jury, the winner of the public prize will be selected by the readers of SPIEGEL ONLINE from a shortlist that will be announced at the beginning of October. You can find the exact conditions of the competition here: spiegel.de/socialdesignawardand in the current issue of SPIEGEL WISSEN ‘Paradies Erde – Wie wir unseren Lebensraum retten’.
What would it be like if a waterfall were to cascade down next to the new Berlin City Palace? If huge trees grew there and exotic plants proliferated? Professors Elizabeth Sikiaridi and Frans Vogelaar have developed the utopia of an extension to the Humboldt Forum in their Berlin Hybrid Space Lab: a vertical jungle consisting of wooded terraces, a roof garden and a winter garden, reminiscent of the explorer Alexander von Humboldt: ‘As a stacked “oasis” that integrates vegetation into the built environment, “Humboldt Volcano” shows solutions for the integration of greenery in very dense urban situations.’ Sikiaridi and Vogelaar also see their idea as part of ‘urban reforestation’ and an opportunity to establish an unconventional green space in scarce public space.
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