timespace - landscape architecture and infrastructure

Infrastructures have become the basis of our civilization in almost all areas of everyday life with an importance that we are only rarely aware of. The master‘s thesis examines the relationship of infrastructures to their surroundings using the Kiel Canal, located in northern Germany. Due to growing economic interests in order to increase the efficiency, the canal is extended in eastern parts and will be deepened along its entire length. This generates large amounts of soil, which need to be redistributed.

Where is potential to create a infrastructure that can be useful for the surrounding landscape and people beyond their purely functional purpose? How can this integration be achieved and what design opportunities are possible by using the examined soil?

These questions ask for wide analysis of the canal and a closer look at the functioning and integration into the surrounding at various levels and time layers. The methods of soil removal defines the basis of the design process.

The design develop a concept that explains the integration of three example designs into the canal surroundings. It also shows the functions of the newly created added value of the individual intervention.

Finally it becomes clear that effects of infrastructures can lead to mutually positively influencing symbioses under

the comprehensive consideration of the basic requirements of the locations and demands of the infrastructure on the area.

Landscape architecture can, establish itself more in this technically shaped field, become a competent mediating designer between the disciplines through its basically interdisciplinary planning culture.