BrüglingerGärten.
Guidance systems make spaces become ascertainable. In the BrüglingerGärten the elements of guidance shape the face of a restructured and thereby consistently distinguishable area.
09/2007–12/2007.
Within a process of restructuring a botanical garden on the outskirts of Basel was supposed to be merged with several other close-by institutions dedicated to gardening or agricultural production. A concept was developed to brand this spatial redefinition. The area was differentiated by three topics:
botany,
recreation and
agricultural production–each one represented by a certain color. The three thematic focusses were meant to be consolidated and communicated through a new brand name, the BrüglingerGärten (
Gardens of Brüglingen), that refers to the location as well as it communicates thematic diversity.
The concept was developed in collaboration with Thomas Lehner and Jacob Kadrmas.
The implementation of the area's new identity built on the development of a guidance system as interface between space and visitor. It marks the borders, the moment of entering and affects the way the visitor apprehends the space he moves through.
The concept the guidance system is based on uses stela-shaped elements made of anthracite concrete. There reduced form clearly contrasts the predominant organically grown structures in the gardens. Huge stelas mark off the main entrance situations and lead the visitor from the outside into the park right to one of the info points. From here he is conveyed to the specific route guidance for the surrounding destinations. If the visitor wants to reach a destination further away, he is led there via the major axes and another particular info point.
The destination-specific sinage illustrates the current distance to the destination through its varying height until the route guidance is finished with the destination's info stela.
