VULGARE

Konversion Maurice Rose Airfield by GTL

Maurice Rose Airfield stands for an extraordinary conversion of a surface formerly used by the armed forces. The history of its military use can still be experienced. The concrete and asphalt relics will generate an interesting plant mosaic.

The underlying character and architectural structure of the grounds remained legible: a technologically imprinted place with strict geometry inserted into a natural space. A new bridge across the Nidda now links the grounds to the network of pedestrian and bicycle routes in the greenbelt.

The special feature in the new recreational open space, however, is the way it deals with surfaces covered with asphalt and concrete. More than half of the hard surfaces were broken up, shattered into slabs and grains of different sizes, and incorporated into the project. This creates a mosaic with a wide variety of habitats where ruderal vegetation can settle in with very different patterns in the course of succession.

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