Hills of Rubble: Warsaw and Berlin

The Warsaw Uprising Mound is a hill of rubble that Archigrest and topoScape have transformed into a public park and memorial. In their installation, the two Polish design practices juxtapose their spatial, historical, and botanical research on this site with new investigations of Teufelsberg in Berlin’s Grunewald forest. In both cases, the hills emerged from the material remains of the Second World War and later became landscapes and places of remembrance. The installation shows them as places where war, reconstruction, and ecological transformation continue to overlap.