MÜNCHEN/TAUFKIRCHEN

SCALES — L/S - Urban / Architectural LOCATION — München Neuperlach and Taufkirchen “Am Wald” POPULATION — City ±1.5 M inhab. STRATEGIC SITE — A/B ±40 ha / C/D ±90 ha PROJECT SITE — A ± 2ha / B ±1.5ha / C ±5ha / D ±8ha SITE PROPOSED BY — GEWOFAG Wohnen GmbH OWNER OF THE SITE — GEWOFAG Wohnen GmbH POST-COMPETITION PHASE — A separate procedure is required for the award of the planning contract in compliance with VgV, e.g implementation or refinement of the system

Dr. Doris Zoller — GEWOFAG

1. WHAT ARE THE GOALS OF THE SITE MUTATION? The sealed parking areas of the 1960s and 1970s housing developments should be renewed and complemented. One goal was to develop urban modules, like prototypes, that could be placed on similar areas in order to redensify these areas.

2. HOW CAN THE SITE BE INTEGRATED IN THE ISSUES OF PRODUCTIVE CITIES? HOW DO YOU CONSIDER THE PRODUCTIVITY ISSUE? The areas in consideration are mainly housing areas. Therefore, the integration of the production process, as we classically know it, is regarded as difficult. Nevertheless, the creation of work/living combinations within the buildings would be possible. Additional commercial uses associated with housing and social facilities enhancing the living units are also possible.

3. HAVE YOU ALREADY DEFINED A SPECIFIC PROCESS FOR THE URBAN AND/OR ARCHITECTURAL DEVELOPMENT OF THE SITE AFTER EUROPAN? Workshops with the awarded teams are planned to refine the results. Also, exhibitions with the presence of the teams as well as communication processes with the local actors and the awarded teams will be implemented.

New Proximities

MÜNCHEN/TAUFKIRCHEN (DE) — RUNNER-UP

AUTHOR(S) — Enrico Casagni (IT), Matteo Chelazzi (IT), Federico Cheloni (IT), Giulio Margheri (IT), Architects CONTACT — Càret Studio, Firenze (IT) info@caretstudio.eu, www.caretstudio.eu

TEAM POINT OF VIEW — The entrepreneurs of the productive economy are looking for the opportunity to inject new life in the decentralised neighbourhoods. Taufkirchen is considered a blueprint for the upcoming development of the city, a new coexistence of work and production together with a set of collective spaces. The different nature of the blocks is physically declared in its image. The two-storey podium attracts different functions serving as the entrance for the residential units, and connecting the parking plot underneath. The residential areal is organized in linear typology placed on top of the podium. The architectural ambition is to develop a language based on a set of simple modules that contain the complexity of the new forms of working and living; a modularity that allows to place the system in diverse context without losing its expression.

JURY POINT OF VIEW — From a purely residential building, the work creates a commercial unit with two ground floor zones for business, work, and social togetherness using simple means. This is not a new concept, but situated in the purely residential area and owned by a housing association responsible for an otherwise purely residential building, it is necessary and therefore innovative. The productive elements have to be closer to the new flats in order to also prevent traffic and give rise to a new togetherness in a then-new city district. The building structure can be generated as a solitaire, a row, or an L-angle, and can therefore be realised in various locations.

Small Room / Big Window

AUTHOR(S) — Jesús Vassallo (ES), Architect CONTRIBUTOR(S) — Yingying Guan (CN), Architect; Yulong Li (CN), Evio Isaac (US), Students in Architecture

MÜNCHEN/TAUFKIRCHEN (DE) — RUNNER-UP

CONTACT — Texas (US) T. +1 8322700143 jv8@rice.edu, www.jesusvassallo.com

TEAM POINT OF VIEW — We understand the housing areas in Neuperlach and Taufkirchen as an unfinished landscape }— the product of unresolved tensions between different planning approaches at the time of their realization. We propose to reinterpret the existing fabric and to transform it into a more urban and complete whole by replicating existing typologies in order to create denser compositions where the perimeter of each city block is reinforced. Our construction system is based on a three-dimensional prefabricated module made of Cross Laminated Timber panels. In its repetition of a constant dimension and proportion, the wood module lends the project a serial character reminiscent of the housing projects of the Wilhelmine Era. In its specific size, the module is designed to produce a diverse catalogue of social housing units. The brick cladding complements the modular construction generating a continuous skin and a sense of urbanity and decorum.

JURY POINT OF VIEW — The work proposes a one-storey, commercial area with communal and social facilities as well as free time and recreation. The typology takes up the existing structures and supplements them in a sensible way, but simultaneously with its own character. The monotony that emerges has to be compensated for by means of material and colour. The modules proposed represent the smallest possible unit for a flexible design of the sizes and layouts of the flats. The modular construction that is intended can be executed economically and quickly.

wood|LAB

AUTHOR(S) — Dennis Winkler (DE), Architect

MÜNCHEN/TAUFKIRCHEN (DE) — RUNNER-UP

CONTACT — Bremen (DE), T. +49 16094657776 mail@dewink.de, www.dewink.de

TEAM POINT OF VIEW — Prototype concept. The integration of the modular construction system through timberwork mobilises urban niches, enabling space-saving realisations of new living and community areas in a short period of time. Building with CLT (Cross Laminated Timber) massive wood offers many advantages over conventional construction materials, with considerably less “grey energy”, from the extraction of raw materials all the way to waste disposal. The quadratic base module is continuously reconstructed to different sized patterns, whereby it forms the foundation for Rapid Manufacturing. The basic design can be adapted to different situations, resulting in endless opportunities for reconfiguration in order to develop location-specific proposals.

JURY POINT OF VIEW — The design convinces with its moderate building height and building size, which can be flexibly adapted to the respective sites and also result in an increased number of storeys at suitable sites. As a result, the use of this system can come into its own in an inner-city area as well as in a loose settlement area. The public uses planned for the ground floor, which can also be expanded, offer added value for the residents and enliven the open areas. The project provides answers to the various challenges in the residential construction of the future and can be used in a versatile way without seeming arbitrary, even if its use at the properties to be worked on seems insufficiently concentrated.