Sensing nature park Slovenj Gradec
The main idea is about how to interact between people, its heritage, and the landscape to explore its complexity and educate about its fragility. The park is the transformation of urban forms flowing into surprising organic moments shaped by the waterfronts of different shapes and types. The park is a variation of experiences without enclosed ambiences but with a constantly changing perception. We are creating moments of transition, moments of clarity, imagination, and reflection, observation, and education. Our challenge was to create a master plan filled with conditions, which allow constantly changing relations between urbanity and nature, between contemporary and heritage, as well as between public and individual, or let’s say between exposed and intimate spaces.
The shape of mountains shares the view with the sky. The landscape terrains surfaced by extended forests are creating a landscape carpet. The river Mislinja and the slope of Tičnica hill terrain with local architectural heritage interacts in order to create the public space for collective experiences in a sublime landscape. The new landscape allows reintroducing nature to urban life through this experience. The river Mislinja empowers the distinct places with its water flow, sound, and reflection. The Tičnica hill is a territory of exciting forest in a steep terrain, which transforms to an open clearing with a belvedere.
