Visitor center Inselsberg, Bad Tabarz

The Inselberg plateau is 916 m above sea level. On one of the highest mountains in the western Thuringian Forest. Task: The further development of the popular excursion and hiking destination to a „theme park“ - a new visitor center with the "Inselberg Terraces" in the outdoor area as a landmark. Concept: The identity of the landscape and the structural silhouette of the Inselberg are carefully opened up by means of a careful structural measure. Like a half-excavated fossil, the visitor center is structurally designed as part of the mountain. Structural interventions on and at the edge of the plateau are designed as a landscape unfolding of the topography. Visitor center, gastronomy and terraces line the ensemble on the plateau with new uses and a restrained architectural language. A circular path connects the existing facilities on the plateau and the intersecting long-distance hiking trail Rennsteig.