Oerliker Park

The Oerliker Park is a 17,500 square-meter public park in the area of ​​Oerlikon in Zurich North. He is the first and largest of four new parks that have been built by Green City Zurich Development Area Center Zurich Nord beginning of the 21st century. The Oerliker Park was handed over in 2001 of the population. This was followed by the MFO Park ( 2002), the Louis- Haefliger - Park ( 2003) and the choice Park ( 2005). You are all in short walking distance to each other. Each park is a garden architectural work, tailored to the needs of the neighborhood and designed as a neighborhood park, neighborhood park or playground. Taken together, they present the latest trends of open space planning and landscape architecture. The project center in northern one of the largest inner-city industrial areas of Switzerland was put to a new use, the parks antedate the development with residential and commercial buildings.

Formation

The study contract for the Oerliker Park won in 1997 the landscape architect inlet, Seippel and Schweingruber from Baden together with the architects Sabina Hubacher and Christoph Haerle. In her project she grappled with the factors of time and change. Taking into account the emerging neighborhood, which in the soil contaminated sites from the industrial past of the area, the neighborhood street that divides the park into two halves and the time of planning still unknown park users, a facility created, which is not finished, but can change continuously.

Shaping

The Oerliker Park is determined by about a thousand in a tight grid of 4x4 meters planted trees that will develop into a tree hall. To the main thing there are ash trees, which are interspersed with fields of birch, cherry trees, amber trees and blue bells trees. At intervals of several years, the forest -like tree growing up hall is thinned.

A red pavilion, a blue lookout tower, a turquoise, elongated fountain and a clearing complement the tree field. The partially covered with wooden planks clearing is designed as a so-called zone of intervention that allows for different forms of use. Due to the 2007 formulated concerns and needs of the nearby residents, the intervention zone in 2009 was, among other things equipped with a large climbing frame.

The Oerliker park is bisected by the Birch Street.

The eastern part was formerly used as a sports facility for the employees of the company ABB and today is characterized by the blue tower, which is located in the Tree field and recalls the factory chimneys of the former industrial district. The current to the blue concrete core steel staircase spiraling through the tree layer. The observation deck at a height of 35 meters allows a wide view of the neighborhood. It is located at the same height as the Bucheggplatz and offers a line of sight towards the city center and Uetliberg. A gravel field with tortuous path network, an area with gravel and grass, charcoal grills, chess and table tennis tables complete the eastern part.

The western part was used by the Maschinenfabrik Oerlikon as landfill and today consists of various play equipment for toddlers, an area with gravel flooring, a wooden grid and a long bar with fountain water feature. The red pavilion can be used for different occasions. Different seating and chairs as well as drinking water wells are located on both sides of the park.

2001 Oerliker park of the city of Zurich received the award for good building.

While the park has been taken up by the local population initially with skepticism, he now enjoys great popularity.

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