The Park of Light

The Park of Light explores the interaction of light and color with human senses. This concept continues the tradition started in the city by the Sensitive Park, which focused on smell, hearing, taste, and touch.

Light plays a defining role in shaping the park’s spatial experience. The entrance zone welcomes visitors with large-scale light installations, presenting the park as a place of interactive light wonders. Illuminated tiles embedded in the paved paths guide the way. White light circles above visitors’ heads evoke futuristic clouds. Light arches that appear to “shoot through” the forest lead visitors toward the embankment area, which features wooden loungers, an amphitheater, a meadow with glowing “reeds,” and the Lighthouse – the architectural centerpiece of the area – that radiates a soft moonlight glow.

The playground invites young guests to immerse themselves in a world of fantastical creatures. Historical continuity is reflected in the half-timbered design of the park’s structures and the animalistic themes of its art objects. These elements recall the area’s past—when this part of the city, formerly known as Neuhausen, was home to a zoo in the 19th century.