A Warsaw Park’s Debris Ecosystems

CLARE JACOBSON

MATERIALS For their competition-winning design of the 20.5-acre Warsaw Uprising Mound Park, Warsaw-based offices topoScape and Archigrest viewed a dumping ground as a treasure trove. The park’s site had been an active landfill for war-damaged buildings from 1939 to roughly 1960 and had since become overgrown with both native and invasive vegetation. The designers preserved and reused both the debris and the ecosystem it cultivated. “We decided that we wanted to keep everything possible,” says Magdalena Wnek, cofounder of topoScape. The team retained and updated a flight of stairs that led to a 1994 memorial as the main path through the site, then added a winding ramp partially set within a constructed ravine. Debris collected from excavation was reused in three ways. The largest ruins—including a window arch, a chimney,…

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Landscape Architecture (Digital) - 1 Issue, March 2025

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