HAHN VON HANTELMANN is a young office of landscape architects founded in 2006 by Inga Hahn and Nicolaus von Hantelmann. Our main approach is an individual and sensitive design process towards the origin of place, which is reflected from the first sketch to the detailed end product. During that design process the client’s or user’s requirements and wishes are central aspects of our conceptual strategy.

As the built environment is in a permanent process of change and therefore gaining complexity, urban places and landscapes evolve equally into versatile spaces of design and social status.Each place has its own history, specific spatial situation and position within a wider context. Thus the questions of a potential future use and individualshape become central aspects, which further feed our conceptual approach in general as well as our design strategies in specific: Therefore a new place starts to form itself by adding new aspects to it or uncover already existing hidden qualities. The place starts to interact with its environment.

Within that interaction, plants are essential design elements for us in terms of articulating a scale of an individual private garden as well as a complex landscape design. Thus the plant becomes an architectural element, which develops various characteristics during the seasons expressing sensuality.