Wild Meadows - Engine Room

LANDSCAPE / PARK DESIGN / COMPETITION CONCEPT

A park woven through wildflower meadows.

Wild Meadows brings play, sport and social life together through a continuous planted landscape. The proposal gives visitors freedom to choose their own routes, activities and places to gather.

Eco Park competition concept · September 2019.
Design and visualisations by Philipp Nedomlel.

Aerial visualisation of Wild Meadows, with winding flower meadows, play areas, sports courts, timber buildings with planted roofs, and an amphitheatre beside a creek. — Aerial overview of the proposed park.

A landscape that connects.

The demanding activity brief is arranged as a flexible landscape rather than a collection of isolated zones. Meandering wildflower meadows line and connect paths, play areas and gathering spaces, giving the park a shared identity.

Wild Meadows masterplan showing linked paths and meadow planting, sports courts in the northwest, entrance buildings, parking, and an amphitheatre near the creek. — Masterplan: sports courts to the northwest, social spaces near the entrance, and an amphitheatre beside the creek.

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From the Village to the Heart.

At the entrance, five timber structures and the ticket booth form the Village: a social hub for food and green initiatives. Three further timber structures frame the Heart, a central courtyard. Meadow roofs extend the planting across buildings, while BBQ spaces and a sheltered amphitheatre offer other places to gather.

Timber structures with flowering meadow roofs beside paths, swings and families in the Wild Meadows proposal. — Timber structures and meadow roofs frame social spaces.

Play threaded through the park.

Forty swings and five ropeways recur throughout the landscape. Sports courts cluster toward the northwest; trampolines and skate areas follow the western edge. Paths and small gathering places weave among the planting.

Children and adults among swings, paths and wildflower planting, with timber buildings and planted roofs in the background. — Swings and paths are integrated into the wildflower landscape.

Planting as infrastructure.

Regional trees, shrubs and perennials frame the site, while a dense planting buffer follows the creek. Wildflower meadows replace conventional lawns, with the aim of supporting pollinators and reducing maintenance and irrigation. Proposed permeable surfaces allow rainfall to infiltrate the ground.

Competition proposal and concept visualisations.

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