Eilendorf green corridor Design of the green corridor in AC-Eilendorf with play and recreation facilities and furnishing of the green areas

CONCEPT
The present design was developed taking into account the numerous ideas and suggestions that emerged from the public participation and the children and youth workshop in spring 2013.
The proposed design of the green corridor deals sensitively with the existing situation, taking into account the functional requirements and the costs. All existing pathway relationships are incorporated into the design. Adjacent elements considered important to the site, such as the adjoining Haarbach Valley, are also incorporated into the design.
The vegetation concept is derived from the southern exposure and the location of the front garden and garden areas of the adjoining building plots. The striking radial forms of the urban design are deliberately not to be repeated here.

IN A FEW STEPS TO THE FINISHED GREENZONE
The concept of the design can be explained by a few steps, which build on each other:

1. Establishment of an accessing path network, which together with the footpaths and cycle paths of the building area offers numerous circular paths for local recreation;

2. Creation of different, near-natural vegetation types, establishment of a differentiated seeding concept of hard-wearing lawn mixtures and near-natural meadows (two types of meadow, fat meadow and in wetter places wet meadow);

3. Differentiated woodland concept with trees of the 1st and 2nd order as well as solitary shrubs. Use of selected large trees in the two focal areas; use of solitary shrubs along the southern planning boundary; extensive planting of trees in the northern and eastern areas of the two focal points;

4. Formation of two focal areas, one of which forms the central neighbourhood square and one of which serves as a sports and leisure area;

5. Light and heavier ground modelling to reduce the impact on the adjacent residential areas, to integrate possible precipitation and to further stage the two focal areas;

6. Integration of additional play and recreation facilities as required at selected locations;

7. General furnishing of the green areas with robust and proven elements.