Garden of the Brixen Hofburg

The Brixen Hofburg. Once a bishop's palace, today an impressive example of a compact palace ensemble between baroque and renaissance. The task: "reconstituting" a historic grove. The stance: No imitation of what has vanished, but rather a research into the characteristic "essence"; and subsequently its reflection, validation and transfer into a form and design fit to today's requirements. The concept: fruit production and seclusiveness as characteristics of the historic ensemble will be complemented by a communal-social and didactic-pedagogic component (Southern Tyrolean pomiculture). The implementation: within a regular grid of fruit trees "special places" are distributed, each of them enhancing meaningful sites or varieties "with a story to them" through a slightly raised topography.