Can a Garden be the Place of Cultural Integration? Sacral Aspect of Contemporary Garden Exhibitions in Germany

3rd World Multidisciplinary Civil Engineering, Architecture, Urban Planning Symposium

土木建筑工程;文学

Wojcik-Popek, Agnieszka^1

Cracow University of Technology, Faculty of Architecture, Institute of City and Regional Design, ul. Warszawska 24, Cracow

31-137, Poland^1

关键词: A pillars;    Architectural element;    Green areas;    Human lives;    Potsdam;    Social identity;   

Others  :  https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1757-899X/471/11/112101/pdf
DOI  :  10.1088/1757-899X/471/11/112101

学科分类：土木及结构工程学

来源: IOP

【 摘 要 】

In the paper the author is trying to answer to the question 'Can a garden be the place of cultural integration?' The faith and religion is here considered as a repository of tradition and a pillar of social identity of communities. Therefore, the paper main objective is to recognize sacral aspect of different exhibition gardens. The studied group consists of 13 exhibition areas created during 8 exhibitions (3 international garden exhibition-Ger. Internationale Garten Ausstellung, abbrev. IGA, 5 national garden exhibitions-Ger. Bundesgartenschau, abbrev. BUGA): Magdeburg 1999, Potsdam 2001, Rostock 2003, Gera and Ronneburg 2007, Schwerin 2009, Hamburg 2013, Havelregion 2015 (exhibition areas in 5 different cities), Berlin 2017. The sacrum is present in garden exhibitions in various forms. They can be divided into following groups, large-scale green temples (functioning as permanent landmarks or spatial dominants), small architectural elements like chapels (functioning mostly as temporary landscape accents), theme gardens referring to different religions and cultures (as a small spatial element they do not have important role in the park structure), abandoned cemeteries as green areas, existing temples or chapels as a part of garden exhibition, other references to religious motives. The presence of different religious motives within the exhibition programme proves that sacral sphere is recognized as an important element of human life which is worth to be discussed by artists. It is also proving that it is a vital part of landscape with strong social binding and culture preserving power.