Sustainable and environmentally friendly urban and residential construction are facing challenges that are also changing the structures and aesthetics of architecture.

This is why we see buildings and the city as a unit that must be supplemented, adapted or revitalised in the existing context and through joint planning and implementation. The mix of generations and new forms of housing and living are a priority in our eyes. In our projects, we have interpreted them in such a way that efficiency and sustainability meet economy and ecology.

A mixed neighbourhood as an urban extension: Stadt_Land_Mühlbach

South section

Along an Isar canal in the north of Munich, a new quarter is being built between a major city entrance road and the landscape. A virtue is made of necessity: noise protection from the Freisinger Landstrasse is the reason for opening up the area decentrally via small squares. The intelligently arranged dense building structure opens up towards the nature reserve and plays with the proximity to the water. This creates an attractive settlement form with generous open space that enables a clear address and identity.

The buildings and gardens are in close dialogue with the water. In keeping with the location of the site, we have created an atmosphere that allows the water to become part of the development and creates gardens by the water.

Four urban entrance plazas with commercial units and offices are created, forming different addresses along Freisinger Landstraße. The entrances to the flats and commercial units or communal areas are located at these distribution points. This is followed by a garden courtyard that widens out over the Garching Mühlbach stream into the former open-air swimming pool, finally merging into the extensive meadows of the English Garden.

North section

There will be flats, some of which will also support the “home office”, as well as local amenities, sports and leisure facilities. In terms of urban planning, the question of duality arises; on the one hand, urbanity and, on the other hand, dealing with the landscape-formed site. We answer this with a large-scale form as a block structure that opens up to the landscape and, in contrast to it, offers an address-forming interior with an urban atmosphere. The courtyards have an inner connection, a continuous residential promenade that can be approached from the north and south. The openings
create a fine bridge between the landscape space and the biotopes. The addresses and entrances are oriented towards the residential promenade. The green connection as a fresh air corridor from west to east is a natural result of the location and the interaction with the landscape.

The articulated block structure is surrounded on all sides by greenery due to the deliberate distance from the street – in the west overgrown with trees, in the east with meadows and water. In this way, the form, together with the sporting uses, lies in a flowing landscape that also creates space for the overarching pedestrian and bicycle connection. The neighbourhood square also provides space for temporary events and weekly markets. The sports facilities, on the other hand, are located in the south of the site in the landscape space and receive their address via a square between the sports hall and the other sports facilities. The result is a ground-level, open club sports facility that is complemented by a public kiosk.

Freisinger Landstraße, München Freimann

Client: Bayerische Hausbau GmbH & Co. KG und HVB Immobilien AG, München

Competition: Urban development and landscape planning ideas competition “Wohnbebauung an der Freisinger Landstraße 40–44” in Munich Freimann competition 1st prize, 2017
Informal urban development planning, master plan, design guidelines for development planning until 2024

Together with grabner huber lipp Landschaftsarchitekten und Stadtplaner

Area: 10 HA, Floor space total: 65,500 m², ca. 600 residential units, retail, 2 nurseries, gymnasiums, underground garage

On the footprint ... in the course of time: Haldenseestrasse

The existing buildings form the conceptual basis for the reinterpretation of the current neighbourhood. Deeper buildings create an increase in urban density. The existing structures are incorporated as a footprint and further developed in an alternation of green courtyards and traffic-free alleyways according to the classic principle of the "street - flat - courtyard" settlement typology. Each flat participates in the communal open space and an attractive thoroughfare.

excerpt of the jury’s statement:

“The urban-planning concept of the design is derived by the architects as it were in accordance with the laws of nature from the history of the place and the existing buildings. The district is divided into large crescents that follow the footprint of the existing housing estate. The raising of the urban density prescribed in the regional planning programme is achieved largely by deeper buildings – a perfectly plausible development of the estate. With the zoning of the building site according to the classical principle ‘street – apartment – courtyard’, it is possible to combine the housing-estate typology with the formation rule of classical European urban districts. In future, the place will not be characterised by housing rows surrounded on all sides by open spaces, but rather by rows of buildings that line a curved, interesting street. A convincing urbanistic concept: every dwelling will receive an address in well-proportioned public space, every dwelling will participate in a generous and green inner courtyard. The simple clarity of the district’s layout is equalled by its viability, which will prove itself in the long-term implementation process. The architects’ decision to place the underground garages consistently under the buildings and the streets, which are sealed anyway, makes it possible to preserve a large number of existing trees.
The clear urban order is opened up by a series of public green spaces, which are intended to create an open-space connection between Krumbadstrasse and the underground railway station Michaelibad. …”

Haldenseestrasse, Bad-Schachener-Strasse, Munich

with Lex-Kerfers Landschaftsarchitekten, Emling

Client: GWG – Städtische Wohnungsgesellschaft München mbH (municipal housing society)

Architectural service: Competition prize group 2015, 1. Prize 2016, revision 2016, Development Plan, Statute Grant 2019, Design Guide