Ada-Lessing-Park Hameln Conversion of the former Linsingen barracks

Green instead of gray - from fully sealed barracks to a lively green neighborhood park



The site of the former Linsingen barracks is located in the north of Hamelin, an area with an extensive military history. This area, which has long been closed off to the people of Hamelin and has a strong barrier effect, is now being opened up and transformed into an education and health campus. Corresponding functions - including the previous three locations of a vocational school in Hamelin - are to be bundled together here and synergy-forming. At the center of this district, a district park will be created as a connecting element.



A park at the heart of the district



This central park serves to connect the previously separate adjoining neighborhoods and to link the future education and healthcare campus with the surrounding neighborhoods. In addition, the park - in the run-up to the urban development - is intended to form a center for the new campus and become a place that can be intensively used and experienced by future users in everyday life.



Five anchorages and a crossroads



The design envisages five anchorages that generously open up the park to its surroundings. The park entrances are each marked by a characteristic wooden seating element. The paths are stretched between them like sinews. These radial paths enable barrier-free crossing of the park from all directions, connect and network the entire campus and all adjoining neighborhoods with each other and are part of important, superordinate cycle path connections. In the crossroads, curved benches enclose the adjacent meadow areas and offer a central place to stay, are a meeting point and invite communication.



Freely arranged groups of trees accentuate the park as the seasons change, cooling the surroundings and providing shady areas to spend time in.



Four characteristic sub-areas are created:



The open meadow in the south of the park offers plenty of open space and multifunctional use. Loose groups of fruit trees are interspersed in the south with berry bushes on a meadow base - "edible city".



The grove is designed as a generously modeled hill with a climatic grove consisting of over 50 trees. Only trees that are particularly well adapted to climate change are used here.



The wet depression - In the north-east, the retention area of the future vocational school will be lowered close to the groundwater. Near-natural meadows and perennial plantings with willows and bald cypresses form a lovely, biodiverse backdrop with a play and nature experience.



The arena, with barrier-free access, is the place to see and be seen: Spacious seating steps serve as a grandstand for modern leisure sports activities: A wide range of exercise options are offered here with a focus on calisthenics and parcours, supplemented by ball courts and roller sports areas.



The extensive terrain modeling allows the existing ground material to be reused (in mass compensation).



The new modern neighborhood park creates a green space that is open to all users and can be used in a variety of ways in this previously inaccessible "terra incognita", providing an initial spark for the development of the district and offering contemporary contributions to climate adaptation and sustainability.