Cloud Tower, In May 2005 the next ENTERprise and the landscape architects Land in Sicht won the competition for a contemporary restructuring of the historical park and for an open-air pavilion. The pavilion was conceived as a landmark, as an attractor to the park but also as an outstanding performance space for classical music during festival season in summer.

Conceptually the pavilion is based on the idea of a figure that is not bound by any particular purpose and is perceived as a stage only during performances. How can such a free structure serve as an acoustical instrument, able to focus sound energy and direct it to 1700 seats for an ideal music experience"

As a spatial figure the pavilion is generated from elements of the landscape ? the depression, the slope, the incision, the hillock ? and the architectural folding of the roof. Photography: Lukas Schaller
The ‘Schneise’ (loosely translated: an incision in the landscape) creates a vista linking the riding school to the ‘Black Gate? and serves as an entrance to and a passage through the auditorium area. The staging of views and spatial sequences, the framing and hiding of points of attraction, often achieved by the meandering layout of paths in the traditional landscape garden, is a theme taken up by varying the elevation of the incision to achieve these effects.

Coming from the main entrance, the visitor is enticed to proceed by the silhouette of the stage roof, visible behind an artificial ...