Urban planning – Student workspace – Third Year – Teammate : Blanca Rodriguez
Within Munich, a district in the north of the city brings together the main museums and a part of the university campus. This poorly defined area has no real identity. The project was to link these different cultural hubs in order to recreate a readable and understandable urbanism as a whole. The decision was made to take over the existing goat paths and to literally connect the different spaces with a pedestrian and landscaping treatment playing with the ground levels. The organic form was favored in an attempt to break up the rectilinear urban fabric.
The HUB is integrated in the landscape and flows, curling up into the curves. We divided this big area in different parts. There is a stage part on the left like an amphitheater that can host many different activities, a water mirror that is like a garden and chill area for summer and children, and an outside HUB divided in two. One part protected by a roof and one completely exterior. The pavement is soft and fades into the grass, the stairs are made of white stone. The landscape continues inside and provides workspaces as well as sitting. The furniture is designed specifically for the HUB with the same organic shape. The materials are similar to the rest of the intervention.
The epicenter of the intervention is a large public square at -0.8m sheltering a covered work space for students. After having identified the different activities taking place in this space during the study phase, dedicating certain areas of the intervention was an obvious choice. We therefore have a sports and children’s area in the north, a quieter reading corner in the south-west, and finally a music area in the east. The depth of the intervention is linked to the activities, deeper for noise constraints, like in the sports corner. We designed using the existing tree planting. It is thought to solve different observed problems : intimacy, the sun in summer, as well as aesthetics and sensitive comfort.
The objective was to have a comfortable and warm space in the working space. Wood was the first chosen material, darker, in the deepest parts and lighter in the upper ones. We also designed the exterior furniture adaptable to the project. Some small furniture like storage space under the stairs or supports for bicycles.