Garden Show 2029, Rüdesheim

As it stands, the extensive park is spatially fragmented and overloaded with heterogeneous uses. The separating carriageway of Kastanienallee and the dense layers of shrubs around the car parks in the centre of the park form spatial caesuras and do not give any idea of the depth of the park from the banks of the Rhine. The characteristic location between the stone city and the expanse of the Rhine is both the starting point and the guiding principle for the redesign of the park. The overriding aim is to restore the overall appearance and to strengthen the spatial connections right down to the depths of the park. A finely woven network of paths links the park centres on the city side with the plane tree avenue and the quality of life on the Rhine promenade. The subtly hierarchised network of paths is landscaped and integrates the traffic uses on Kastanienallee, designed as a park promenade, unobtrusively in the parking area. The wide park meadows are differentiated according to their expected intensity of use: from the shady, lush meadow to the intensively used and lively open park meadow on the Rhine. The areas at the back of the park with their valuable trees and shrubs are integrated into the design and supplemented as areas of retreat.