With the urban development at Freisinger Landstraße 40–60, Bayerische Hausbau is creating a sustainable urban quarter in Munich-Freimann that offers integrated club and sports facilities along with a new place for people in the neighborhood to socialize.
A total of 600 residential units will be created along with extensive green and open space. Over two thirds of the site will remain unsealed and will be designated as public and private open and green space.
The urban design concept for the site was created by Munich architectural firm zillerplus Architekten und Stadtplaner and the landscape architects Grabner Huber Lipp Landschaftsarchitekten from Freising.
The overall concept will give Freisinger Landstraße a more urban character while preserving and enhancing the green space at the back towards the Garchinger Mühlbach. Currently inaccessible and hidden parts of the Floriansmühlbad, a former natural swimming pool, will thus be opened up to the public as parkland.
The plans call for staggered individual buildings with low-sloped roofs in the southern part of the planning area, west of the Garchinger Mühlbach. These structures are so cleverly arranged that they guarantee the necessary noise protection. At the same time, all the apartments have a view facing the Garchinger Mühlbach and adjacent green areas.
The urban design for the northern part of the planning area gives due consideration to the population of old trees. In order to preserve the trees, the plans here call for an open block development set back from the road. A central square with shops, social infrastructure and a new gym for organized sports will be located at the heart of the urban quarter.
A new urban quarter will be created that will serve to enhance the entire district.
In addition to urgently needed living space, the urban development will also include social infrastructure like a new sports hall with facilities for organized sports and keeping fit, as well as two daycare centers, local amenities and a restaurant with a beer garden situated directly on the Mühlbach. Arranged around a central square, this will create a new place for people in Freimann to meet up and relax.
The lush green banks of the Mühlbach, previously inaccessible to the public, will extend an enticing invitation to take a walk or linger and enhance the quality of life in the district. The areas earmarked as places where people can meet up and socialize as well as extensive green spaces will provide a high recreational and leisure value, not only for the residential areas to the north and south but also for everyone in the surrounding area.
The urban quarter has been awarded precertification in Gold for urban development in accordance with the guidelines of the German Sustainable Building Council (DGNB). The degree to which the assessment criteria were met is above average in terms of urban climate, biodiversity, urban design and energy infrastructure in particular.
Sharing models, charging infrastructure for e-mobility and a wide range of parking space for bicycles support the aim of creating a climate-neutral urban quarter.
The plans include a climate-conscious mobility management concept for the quarter, which has been awarded the MOBILITY FORWARD mobility certificate. The planned mix of uses – which includes shops, restaurants, daycare centers and attractive recreational facilities close to the residential areas – creates local solutions with everything within easy reach. The aim is to keep the urban quarter virtually free of traffic. To achieve this aim, focus is placed on encouraging the use of bicycles. The planned fast interurban bike paths will be connected to the new options for crossing Freisinger Landstraße and will link east and west.
The trees and shrubs on the site that are worth keeping will be preserved as far as possible and incorporated in the overall planning concept for the urban and open spaces. Approximately 1,000 new trees will be planted and will not only shape the character of the quarter but also make a significant contribution to maintaining and improving the environmental conditions and quality of life there.
A collaborative partnership has resulted in a sound urban development concept.
During the course of developing the project area in Freimann, Bayerische Hausbau ensured that the public was involved in the planning to a great extent.
In July 2018, Bayerische Hausbau, together with the city of Munich, invited interested residents in the Freimann district to attend an information event. Architects and representatives of Munich's planning department provided information on the concept for the urban quarter being planned on Freisinger Landstraße.
At the information event, the architects Michael Ziller and Jürgen Huber presented the plans for the urban quarter to the 80 or so residents in attendance and answered questions.
The project partners provided information regarding key data for the project – at the time relating to the southern part of the site – as early as in the spring of 2017. As part of a public dialog, Bayerische Hausbau and the city of Munich presented the planning concept, competition procedure and schedule. Ideas and comments from Freimann residents, which were collected during the event, were incorporated into the designs submitted during the urban development and landscape planning competition.
