Beatrice von Wattenwyl-Haus Baroque Garden, Bern
The desire for unspoiled nature can be addressed in a garden in a very small space. Particularly at a time when the destruction of the environment is progressing, gardens are becoming more and more important as a projection surface for longings.
Needs that can no longer be satisfied in urban space are projected onto nature. Plants, with whose help it is possible to create natural living spaces in an artificial way, are central to this yearning. Gardens have the potential to address these needs in a condensed form. In contrast to built space, plants supplements urban living spaces with their own autonomous natural qualities, which develop a direct effect in gardens. Our firm works with this contrast and develops valuable spaces for experience for people based on intentionally “green” garden concepts.

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Residential quarter Aubing-Mitte - Munich, München
The planning area is located between the S-Bahn station and the historic town center in Munich's Aubing district. It borders on residential areas of various origins and the wide meadow landscape of the “Aubinger Lohe” forest area. Through its precise spatial formation, the scenic urban design leads through the area and sets accents at the right places.
Gardens, Housing, and Living Spaces
Residential development Welfengarten, München
Detailed design and construction management for the new construction of 390 residential units, commercial and daycare center in Munich-Haidhausen with courtyard on underground parking and shared roof terraces.
Gardens, Housing, and Living Spaces
Olympic Women Village, München
The bungalows were built for the female athletes to use during the 1972 Olympic Games. Since then, they have served as student accommodation. For the necessary redevelopment of the neighborhood, we worked with bogevischs buero to redevelop the architectural and open space typologies based on the existing buildings.
Gardens, Housing, and Living Spaces
Residential quarter and harbor park, Neuwied Rasselstein-Quartier
The concept for the redevelopment of the historic industrial site, Rasselstein Areal in Neuwied, is deliberately aimed at a sustainable strategy in dealing with land consumption. The aim is to preserve and reactivate the natural space as far as possible and to combine this with local densification and the construction of high-quality housing.
Gardens, Housing, and Living Spaces
Model construction project Obere Pfalzgrafstraße Freising, Freising
Restricted competition "New residential complex on Obere Pfalzgrafstraße, Erna Angerbach lives in the countryside".
Gardens, Housing, and Living Spaces
Heilstätten, Beelitz
The new garden city in Beelitz Heilstätten will combine single-family and multi-family homes with imposing listed buildings, compact woodland with rest and play facilities and a newly planned low-traffic infrastructure in an extraordinary combination. A multifunctional market place and the new lake with promenade will additionally promote the local identity.
Gardens, Housing, and Living Spaces
Triftstrasse, Berlin
The new residential estate in Triftstrasse in Berlin-Pankow, which is surrounded by woodland, is characterised by the special feature of the lived-in community and the child-friendly, low-traffic concept. In addition, the demand for optimal resource conservation is implemented through central energy supply and rainwater management as well as climate-friendly aspects through green roofs and façades, the least possible sealing or native building and vegetation selection.
Gardens, Housing, and Living Spaces
Werk 1, Winterthur
The inner courtyard on the Sulzer site refers to the industrial past and the reclaiming of abandoned areas. Flexibility and ecology promote biodiversity, improve the urban climate and create a green oasis for all generations.
Gardens, Housing, and Living Spaces
Residential development Carantec, Grand-Saconnex
The proposed design affirms the site as a new centrality for the municipality of Grand-Saconnex. At the intersection of two main axes, the square will be a new focal point for Grand-Saconnex. This centrality is confirmed by the tram line and stop and becomes an important transitional space for the residents and visitors of the neighbourhood.
Gardens, Housing, and Living Spaces
Pappelallee, Berlin
Extensively landscaped roof gardens over many floors and partial buildings and a generous garden courtyard for playing and lingering enhance this organically shaped residential building in the middle of the big city to an oasis of peace and relaxation.
Gardens, Housing, and Living Spaces
Bodmergut gardens, Zürich
A journey through time and the senses: Barrier-free learning, discovering and lingering in a restored yield garden and a historic house from 1768.
Gardens, Housing, and Living Spaces
Garden City Falkenberg, Berlin
In close proximity to the `Gartenstadt Falkenberg` UNESCO World Heritage Site, constructed by Bruno Taut in 1913–15, with open spaces by Ludwig Lesser, the spirit of modernism lives on in the expansion of the housing estate. The new development area is divided into smaller residential quarters that merge with the adjacent park.
Gardens, Housing, and Living Spaces
Residential district Haggenstrasse, St.Gallen
Holzer Kobler Architekten have gently nestled the residential buildings into the hillside. The topography and the existing vegetation shape the outdoor space. A lawn with flowers stretches between the edge of the forest and the buildings as a continuous carpet. Tall meadow grasses shield the private sitting areas. A playground is situated at the edge of the forest.
Gardens, Housing, and Living Spaces
Pasteurstrasse Housing Development, Berlin
An oasis for communal living has been realized in the middle of the lively Berlin district of Prenzlauer Berg. A spacious, intensively planted roof area takes up this idea and explores the landscape architecture potentials of this form of housing.
Gardens, Housing, and Living Spaces
Housing development Sturzeneggstrasse, St.Gallen
The new housing development is situated on the southern side of a flourishing moraine. It reacts to the naturally rolling terrain and forms a flowing transition to the open landscape. The positioning of the architecture emphasizes the entrance along with the preserved buildings of the hamlet. The square is strengthened spatially by means of plantings of trees.
Gardens, Housing, and Living Spaces
Residential complex Bereiteranger - Munich, München
Residential development in the Munich district of Au
Gardens, Housing, and Living Spaces
Seegartenstrasse, Horgen
High-quality housing has been created on the site of the former paper factory directly next to the lake. Extensive, garden-like plantings of perennials and grasses make reference to the water and provide privacy, while preserving a free view of the lake.
Gardens, Housing, and Living Spaces
Living and Working at Tucherpark, München
New residentials and business building
Gardens, Housing, and Living Spaces
Hofstatt, München
Conversion of a site for inner-city residential and commercial use - The protected building stock was supplemented by new buildings
Gardens, Housing, and Living Spaces
Minergie-Eco-Siedlung Neugrüen Kreuzzelg, Mellingen
Ninety oaks as an allegory for ecology and permanence and around eighty additional primarily indigenous trees shape the open space of the housing development constructed according to Minergie P-Eco and A-Eco standards. The extremely diverse areas for spending time encourage exchange between the generations. The rainwater seeps into the ground predominantly on-site.
Gardens, Housing, and Living Spaces
Private Garden O., Bonstetten
The new replacement building for the single-family house in the agricultural zone retains its scenic character: large meadow areas, individual large trees, three columnar poplars at the entrance gate and a wild fruit hedge surrounding the garden to the street side. Various view axes into the wider surroundings strengthen the unique panoramic position. The area near the house is designed more intensively and with a clearer language of forms.
Gardens, Housing, and Living Spaces
Suurstoffi Residential Complex, Rotkreuz
We have developed a location-defining outdoor space with simple types of open spaces for the new site based on the potentials of the landscape of Zug. Open spaces for children to play and adults to relax have been created within the eventful topography.
Gardens, Housing, and Living Spaces
Residential quarter, Wörsbachaue
In the North of the city of Idstein, near to the center characterized by its historical framework houses, the ancient "Hexenturm" (= Witch tower) and the renaissance castle a post-war living area will be reconstructed. The site is located between the recreational area of the 'Wörsbachaue’ (flood plain of the river Wörsbach) in the East and the "Limburger Straße" a superior street in the West.
Gardens, Housing, and Living Spaces
Private Garden T., Schwyz
The small home garden at the foot of the magnificent Mythen massif welcomes with rose and water lily terraces that lead over two stories to the entrance and further through an herb garden to the residential garden. A grassy path leads through an orchard to an outlook bench situated high over the garden.
Gardens, Housing, and Living Spaces
Zellweger Park, Uster
The former industrial site left behind a magnificent nature park with ponds. We have realized three outdoor spaces near the new residential development interspersed in the park by supplementing the existing inventory with flowering meadows and trees and areas for playing and spending time.
Gardens, Housing, and Living Spaces
Private Garden C., Zürich
In front of the Haus zum Brunnen is a sunny cushion of grass with Golden Chain trees. In the center is the entry courtyard with a granite fountain. Steps lead to the shady garden behind the house with yews and smoke tree.
Gardens, Housing, and Living Spaces
Private Garden M., Herrliberg
The private garden is framed by plantings of grasses and perennials. At its center lies a pool with areas for sitting and grilling near the neighboring basin of water lilies. We have positioned a tulip tree with a tall trunk on the lawn. Three low cushions of yews create caesuras.
Gardens, Housing, and Living Spaces
Private Garden J., Berlin
In the densely built-up district of Schöneberg, a gas station from the 1950s has become a private retreat. The bamboo that frames the garden protects it from inquisitive eyes along with pines and ornamental cherry trees. With flowering perennials and a basin of water, we have created accents in all the seasons of the year.
Gardens, Housing, and Living Spaces
Residential complex "Drei Höfe", Munich, München
Cooperative housing with differentiated open spaces. Tree courtyard for peace and quiet, development courtyard with communal and private areas whose curves mark the entrances. Play yard for small children's play. The offer is rounded off by communal roof terraces.
Gardens, Housing, and Living Spaces
Privategrden L., Buonas
In einer Obstwiese liegt das Wohnhaus fest eingebunden zwischen Platanen und Eichen. Ein Rasenweg führt zum Blumengarten mit einem Eibenlabyrinth. Hier dominieren Birken. Die prächtige Sicht auf den Zugersee mit seinen wechselnden Stimmungen bleibt erhalten.
Gardens, Housing, and Living Spaces
barcode house beatline, München
The beatline is the rhythm of the place. The open space design for the Sohnckestraße site responds to the impressive old beech tree stand and the new beatline of the barcode house.
Gardens, Housing, and Living Spaces
Student residence Felsennelkenanger, München
A new home for 545 students. The rock carnation "Petrorhagia saxifraga", which was used in the Middle Ages for the production of coloured book paintings and is still represented on the Panzerwiese as a rare heath plant, is not only the namesake of the street but also the starting point for the colour concept of the housing complex.
Gardens, Housing, and Living Spaces
Private Garden Z., Wettingen
Behind Wettingen Abbey, between walls old and new, below the autobahn, which is drowned out by the rustling of leaves and the twittering of birds, a calm, contemplative world opens up at the waters of the Limmat River.
Gardens, Housing, and Living Spaces
Beatrice von Wattenwyl-Haus Baroque Garden, Bern
The magnificent, terraced Baroque garden has been thoroughly rehabilitated after years of neglect. The walls, paths, and all the plants have been renewed. Vegetables and flowers are planted and cultivated each year by neighbors, a school class, and the Bundesgärtnerei.
Gardens, Housing, and Living Spaces
Housing development McNair, Berlin
Play with the topography places the private gardens on a less visible level. In the play forests, sunken areas allow a retreat into nature in the midst of the densely built-up area.
Gardens, Housing, and Living Spaces
Private garden H., Zürich
The small Art Nouveau garden was remodeled in the 1950s and 1980s. Only a few conifers still remain. They provide support to the northern side as well as distance to the neighboring gardens, and in the summer offer the property shade.
Gardens, Housing, and Living Spaces
Asternplatz, Berlin
Following extensive rehabilitation and modernization work on the residential areas on Asternplatz, we developed the front garden areas and the two spacious interior courtyards into contemporary and attractive open spaces.
Gardens, Housing, and Living Spaces
Hugo-Cassier-Strasse / Sigmund-Bergmann-Strasse, Berlin
The open spaces in the two new residential complexes follow a pragmatic consistency and use of the existing spaces. In both the semi-public and private areas, high-quality spaces are created that strengthen neighbourly ties and enable recreation.
Gardens, Housing, and Living Spaces
Wohnbau Holzerhurd 46, Zürich
As an element creating a sense of identity, a lawn of crocuses connects the existing high-rise building with the new building by Egli Rohr Architekten. On the edge of the meadow, diverse play and leisure-time options enrich the newly created open spaces.
Gardens, Housing, and Living Spaces
Public Park Lebern-Dietlimoos, Adliswil
On the edge of the municipality of Adliswil, a new district has been created at the foot of the Üetliberg – with a central park as a link between the municipality and its rural surroundings.
Gardens, Housing, and Living Spaces
Grütpark, Adliswil
Three residential buildings are situated around a central square. The red fountain is a center of attraction and place to meet. Several oaks, small playgrounds, and large lawn areas create spaces to spend time between the buildings and toward the nearby forest. The ground floor sitting areas remain private as a result of hedges.
Gardens, Housing, and Living Spaces
Wohnanlage Katzenbachstrasse, Zürich
From the nearly natural environment outside, the contrast that the residential courtyard with its geometric, grassy slopes, ramps, and steps forms surprises.
Gardens, Housing, and Living Spaces
Wohnanlage Wolfswinkel, Zürich
The residential buildings are located in a park-like meadow landscape at the transition from the city to the open cultural landscape. Spacious seating steps lead from the entrance areas on the upper level to the lower-lying play and seating area. The clear view into the open landscape is accentuated and the slope is used as a play and seating element. A circumferential beech hedge frames cypress oaks and several maples of medium height in a large lawn. Water from the slope is caught in open retention channels and slowly seeps away.
Gardens, Housing, and Living Spaces
Bachöffnung Holderbach, Zürich
The opening of the Holderbach was carried out due to legal requirements as well as for design and ecological reasons. ecological reasons. In order to ensure that the stream develops as close to nature as possible, planting measures are to be according to ecological principles.
Gardens, Housing, and Living Spaces
Residential building Stählimatt, Zürich
The situation on the periphery is characterized by a striking leap in scale. While the actual settlement area consists of a conglomerate of small buildings, gardens, and squares, the city segues abruptly into the large scale of the open landscape. Nature is incorporated into the settlement.
Gardens, Housing, and Living Spaces
Wohnbauten Chriesimatt, Baar
An enchanted forest surrounds the new buildings and communicates with the quite heterogeneous neighboring buildings. What the architecture and the space outdoors have in common are a coherent appearance and diverse content.
Gardens, Housing, and Living Spaces
Limmatwest, Zürich
The outdoor spaces take up the typology specified by the architecture in three long zones. A row of plane trees stands on Hardturmstrasse. Private potted plants enhance the internal residential street. Pools of aquatic plants draw the eye to the River Limmat. Poplars typical of the location line the riverside path
Gardens, Housing, and Living Spaces