Oriaplatz and Remsgarten, Lorch/Württemberg

The comprehensive redesign of Oriaplatz (formerly Schillerplatz) and Remsgarten as part of the decentralised Remstal Garden Show 2019 as well as making the Rems and Götzenbach watercourses tangible were the subject of the competition design on which the project was based.

The Oriaplatz and Remsgarten areas, which are spatially and atmospherically different, are connected by a uniform natural stone paving. The openly designed, stone square stage in front of the community centre and the park meadow in the Remsgarten, which slopes gently down to the river, each have their own independent qualities. Access to the water is provided in different ways in the two areas. A walkway and seating steps on the square, integrated into a granite-faced bank wall, allow the Götzenbach to be experienced as an urban stream. In the Remsgarten, access is minimally invasive via a meadow path that leads to where the Götzenbach flows into the Rems.The valuable stock of chestnut and beech trees has been largely preserved and now forms the spatial counterpart to the community centre. Schillerstraße, which crosses the square, was integrated at the same material and level. The square was officially opened in May 2019.