Aeolian Fields — A New Urban Park to Cool, Produce and Play

Abstract

Titled Aeolian fields (a new urban park to cool, produce and play), the competition entry by OFICINAA and TRANSSOLAR for Mannheim’s former US military base, uses air movement as a premise in design. The design proposes a series of large-scale landscape features to sculpt the wind flow and its qualities through the site. While promoting the ventilation of the city and the adjacent neighborhoods and preventing accumulation of heat and air pollution, the proposal sets forth a new park with spatial conditions crafted by air for the community’s use and wellbeing.

Keywords

Bioclimatic / Landscape Architecture / Urban Design / Urban Climatology / Ventilation Corridor / Microclimates / Comfort and Wellbeing

RIGHTS & PERMISSIONS

2014 Higher Education Press