Private garden

Initial situation: The garden plot at the foothills of the Habichtswald forest was characterized by a varied topography with old vegetation. A height difference of around ten meters between the road (lowest point) and the tea pavilion (highest point) had to be overcome. The two-storey residential building divides the garden into two roughly equal areas.

Planning objectives: With the extension of the garages into the front garden area and the renovation of the swimming pool, large-scale interventions in the garden structure were necessary, which offered the opportunity to reorganize and improve the quality of use. Various themed and experience spaces were designed with a close relationship between indoor and outdoor space.

Garden areas: The unifying element of the garden design is a generous mirror made of Indian sandstone, which runs around large parts of the building. It is partly an access route and partly a terrace covering. Different garden areas open up from the natural stone mirror: the front garden with a paved area, lawns and solitary shrubs; on the east side of the building, the entrance areas with canopy bench and rhododendron garden; to the west, the sun terrace with kitchen garden. The rear area, which has hardly been used up to now, has been given garden architecture in the form of the garden couch and the tea house in the middle of an oval lawn.

The main design elements are: Sandstone in the form of paving, steps, seating wall, plastered walls, anthracite-colored steel elements and wooden slats for weather protection, teahouse, fence and garbage house. Around 25 specimen shrubs and trees were planted, around 2,000 perennials and around 1,000 spring-flowering plants