Landscape Tunings : An Urban Park at the Danube

Landscape Tunings foregrounds design as mediator between the community andthe riverbanks through its civic, ecologic and micro-climatic affordances. Thebook unpacks the design process (bottom-up) and the design strategies (tactical)of the "Danube Park / Danube-Loop" project in Ingolstadt an der Donau.Flowing through 10 countries, the Danube is one of the most internationalrivers in the world. Regardless of its international scale, economic andecologic relevance, the Danube acts as a civic anchor when permeatingthrough urban fabrics. Initiated in 2013, the Danube Park / Danube-Loopproject in Ingolstadt results from a three-year design study developed withthe communities in the city aiming at increasing the civic potentials of theriverbanks. Rather than totalizing, the design results from specific spatialtunings. These interventions aim at intensifying the particularities of theriver with its distinct environments, and at leveraging the potentials of theriverbanks as a "thick" space in the pressing commitments to ecological,economic and social wellbeing.