Neue Messe (New exhibition grounds), Leipzig

Sunken garden

Konzept

The rather unattractive setting, at a new intersection just outside the city, which also has little architectural, urban or landscape planning appeal, presents a challenge in terms of open-space planning.

By lowering the level of open space in the form of a so-called "fair trough", a "sunken garden" has been created. It has been lowered by approximately five metres in comparison to the previously existing site level and the exhibition halls.

A more elongated, protected landscape has been created, in which the square with its many evergreen trees also runs through the Leipzig trade fair and forms the green backbone and at the same time the soul of the fair - a peaceful leisure zone amidst the turbulent, colourful, dynamic trade fair ambience.