Landscape Architectural Concept

With the new use of the former military site for recreation, living, business, and science and technology, the open landscape is being restructured with basic correctional measures. The effort is being made to find a synthesis of existing favorable location and the demands of the future profile for varied uses. It is not the Garden Show 2004 that is the primary object but rather the living and recreational value for future decades. 
The chief target stipulated by current legislation is the large degree of retention and absorption of precipitation on the site itself, which will lead to required changes in relief through increasing or decreasing the elevation with earthwork. At the same time, the element “water” is to be presented attractively in the landscape architecture. This is to be accomplished principally in the form of a ribbon of water as a reflecting pool between the Science-Technology Park and the future residential area. The other water catchment depressions necessary to protect the new residential area will form a contrast to the adjacent nature area.

In the area of the former Kürenz sports grounds, the earthwork from elsewhere will be used to separate the main traffic artery from the attractive open space with its view into the valley. The added earthwork sculpture with the Luxembourg Tower is to underline as well the long-term ties to our neighboring city, corresponding at the same time to the water tower and the television tower. The sports grounds in front of the towers, with club house, the adjoining restaurant area, and beer garden, combine the attractive location with the varied offers of the adjacent play area and can thereby serve important future communal functions for the residents of Trier and its surrounding region.

To satisfy the demand for open spaces, it is important to link and conserve the ecologically high quality Brettenbach Valley and the developmental prospects for the forest areas on the city side of the Petrisberg. Cutting straight breaks through the forest to augment the view will increase the fresh-air flow and will, at the same time, create a visible “path” to the city in the valley and will once again allow access to the historical burial mound “Franz’s Knoll.”

The entire area will be developed over the main artery of the partially renaturalized Pluwig and Sickingen Streets, with a far-reaching network of paths which, as far as the topography allows, will be largely wheelchair accessible.

Even beyond the planned new construction, architectural accents and openscapes will hallmark the landscape in the future:

· the ribbon of water as a place to linger between Technology Park and residential area
· the “Taberna” (tavern), a “Window into the Cultural Landscape”
· the “Luxembourg Tower” as a contribution by our neighboring city
· a restaurant with beer garden as a future meeting point for communication
· the Forum as a weatherproof venue for about 500 spectators
· the “Objekt Stadtblick” (view of the city) in the western forest break
· the chestnut grove as “Hain der Worte” (grove of words) in remembrance of the imprisonment of Jean-Paul Satre