Forum Vogelsang Euskirchen

The site of the former National Socialist Vogelsang Training Area highlights the contrast between the built landscape and the “nature” landscape of the surrounding Eifel National Park. This overall impression of the site is to be preserved through open-space planning interventions and strengthened in terms of its experienceability. This requires the careful reconstruction and supplementation of individual areas. The new access axis in extension of the main access road connects the Vogelsang site with the national park and Lake Urft. All the new elements, such as the central car park, the new lookout tower, the international community centre and the national park authority, are located along this spine. The former Adlerhof is the central square of the site. Its symmetry is broken up by asymmetrical islands of plants. Around the community centre and the youth centre in the former “Redoute”, streetball and beachball courts offer attractive recreational opportunities for young people. Two new buildings complement the existing ones: a lookout tower and the new entrance building, which is inserted between the existing buildings as a transparent bar along Adlerhof.