The other rooftop element besides the parking is a small park that acts as a break area for employees of Maag as well as an amenity for the neighborhood. Here, the landscape architect played off the bright green with contrasting pink planters and overflow bins that reveal the workings of the plant below. Lime trees sit in some of the planters, giving the perception that the rooftop park is an extension of the surrounding trees. By incorporating a park into the design in the beginning stages, a rare amenity was built alongside and above the practical elements that usually take precedence and make a park as a late addition an impossibility.

Maag Recycling in Winterthur, Switzerland by Open Operating System

2005.11.28