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Wooden housing estate in Prinz Eugen Park

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81927 Munich: Germany's largest contiguous timber housing estate with 566 apartments in timber or timber hybrid construction has been built in the Oberföhring district. Different building types up to 7-storey houses were built in timber construction. The timber housing estate is being built on approx. 10 hectares of the site of the former Prinz Eugen barracks, which covers a total of around 30 hectares in the Bogenhausen district. The apartments have been realised by building associations, cooperatives, municipal and independent developers, which means that a wide range of offers can be provided for a wide range of housing needs: for rent and ownership, in different building types, for all household sizes and income groups, and alternative forms of living. The first apartments were occupied in early 2019. Completion: 2020


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A total of around 1,800 apartments for over 4,000 people and supplementary infrastructure facilities are being built in the new development quarter. 50 percent of the apartments will be subsidized housing.

Status of implementation
In the meantime, the buildings of the timber housing estate have been occupied. Most of the outdoor facilities have already been laid out.


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Ecological model settlement in timber construction

In the south of Prinz Eugen Park, the ecological model settlement with 566 apartments in timber construction was built. It is currently the largest contiguous timber housing estate in Germany.

In the nationwide model project, CO2-reduced building materials through a grant program. The study is available as a pdf download:
www.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/...2016_dbu-abschlussbericht...pdf

The city's wood construction incentive program is described here:
https://stadt.muenchen.de/infos/prinz-eugen-park.html


Energy concept
The energy supply of the quarter is ensured by the district heating of the Stadtwerke München, supplemented by solar energy use of the roof surfaces of individual building projects.

Mobility offer

Prinz Eugen Park offers a wide range of mobility services that can be accessed by all households. This makes many private cars superfluous and enables considerable cost savings. This has a relieving effect on traffic in the quarter and the surrounding area. Electromobility plays an important role here from the very beginning.
Building blocks for a future-oriented mobility mix in the quarter include:

  • decentralized car sharing stations and a platform for private car sharing and ride sharing
  • Bicycles, pedelecs, cargo bikes and trailers for shared use
  • Reliable public transport services
  • Decentralised e-charging stations for cars and two-wheelers
  • Flexible parking space management in the underground garages
  • Mobility station with complete two-wheeler service at the neighbourhood square
  • Real-time display and reservation of all available mobility offers

Housing mix

The apartments comprise around 400 subsidised and privately financed rental apartments. The remainder are owner-occupied condominiums of the building communities.

The result is a mix of diverse apartment typologies such as

  • dense low-rise building with atrium houses
  • Terraced houses
  • City villas and point houses
  • linear apartment blocks

77% Rental housing, of which:
Cooperatives 23 %
Municipal companies 35 %
Property developer KMB 12%
Other (Israelitische Kultusgemeinde and Stadtbau) 7 %

23% Condominiums, of which:
Developer Property 9 %
Building communities 14 %

Address: Cosimastrasse 9, 81927 Munich, Germany

Timber construction projects from 8 planning offices

The designs of the Holzbau-Siedlung are divided into eight projects, which are realized by different actors.
The projects are developed by:

  • 243 WE from the municipal housing associations Gewofag and GWG
  • 159 residential units from joint building ventures
  • 160 WE from two cooperatives

Planning offices

Other players
Within the ecological model settlement, GEWOFAG has built approx. 180 residential units in timber construction / timber hybrid construction, most of them as multi-storey residential buildings.
www.gewofag.de/web.nsf/id/prinz-eugen-park-gewofag

The B&O Group from Bad Aibling, as general contractor, commissioned Huber & Sohn to manufacture the façade elements in timber frame construction (GK 5) for the construction of a 5-storey building in timber hybrid construction in construction area WA 13 of the Prinz-Eugen-Park. In the construction area WA 16 West, the solid wood construction of a 7-storey building is also being erected by Huber & Sohn, the client here is the Bürgerverein München BbVM eG (citizens' association).

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The ecological model settlement on a former barracks site in Munich sets new standards in timber construction. Various timber construction methods and building types up to seven storeys are being tested side by side in eight building projects with the aim of a final scientific evaluation. Timber frame, timber frame and timber hybrid construction methods are being used.



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City building councillor hands over key in the ecological model settlement


City Planning Councillor Professor Dr. (l) Elisabeth Merk has now symbolically handed over the key to the members of the "Der Kleine Prinz" building association in Munich's Prinz Eugen Park. Their new building ensemble of atrium and point houses on Jörg-Hube-Strasse is part of the ecological model settlement there. In addition to apartments, two guest apartments, an ice cream café and a bicycle repair shop were built.



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Tour of Europe's largest timber construction settlement


The ecological model settlement in Prinz Eugen Park in Munich, currently the largest contiguous timber construction settlement in Europe, was presented. The Holzbaunetzwerk München organized a guided tour through the ecological model settlement in Prinz Eugen Park in Munich on 24.05.2019. In 2009, on the initiative of the Green Party, the City Council of the City of Munich decided to build an ecological model settlement with 600 apartments in timber construction in the new district on the site of the former Prinz Eugen barracks in Bogenhausen. Based on the urban design by GSP Architects with Rainer Schmidt Landscape Architects, eight developers, the municipal housing associations GEWOFAG and GWG München, building communities and building cooperatives have developed timber construction projects ranging from atrium houses to seven-storey residential buildings. Today, all projects are under construction and some will be completed this year.



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Plans for the first construction site of the largest timber housing estate in Munich presented


In the current issue of the timber construction magazine "Mikado", the design of the first construction site of Germany's largest timber housing estate is presented: https://www.mikado-online.de/wp-content//uploads/2017/05/2017_06_Geschosswohnungsbau_Muenchen.pdf

According to the Mikado article, all the plots in the model development, which is up to seven storeys high, have already been allocated.



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Links
Project website of the city of Munich
https://stadt.muenchen.de/infos/prinz-eugen-park.html
Working Group Neighborhood Organization
www.prinzeugenpark.de
Overview of the mitbauzentrale münchen (advice for community-oriented living) about housing projects and building communities
www.mitbauzentrale-muenchen.de/...prinz-eugen-park.html

Publications
Project description in the HolzWohnBau study (2022):
https://hwb24.eu/projekt/pep/
Informationsdienst Holz (2020): Ökologische Mustersiedlung Prinz-Eugen-Park in München. 20 p., Düsseldorf
pdf download: https://informationsdienst-holz.de/…Prinz-Eugen-Park_2020.pdf
DBU Construction Tape 4: Residential quarter in wood - model settlement in Munich. Edition Detail. 120 p., Munich
DETAIL article dated 2.9.2020:
www.detail.de/artikel/prinz-eugen-park-js
Rosenheim timber construction award for the "Little Prince" apartment building
www.rosenheimkreis.de/holzbaupreis2020-publikum/3-preis-%E2%80%93-wohnungsbau-der-kleine-prinz.html
Numerous photos of the completed timber housing estate and of the construction sites. Around 5,000 m³ were used. binderholz cross laminated timber BBS:
www.binderholz.com/bauloesungen/quartier-prinz-eugen-park-muenchen-deutschland/
SZ article of 27.5.2019:
www.sueddeutsche.de/muenchen/oberfoehring-eine-frage-der-oekologie-1.4464832
Short Description: www.ingenieurholzbau.de/...prinz-eugen-park-muenchen



Zuletzt aktualisiert: 6. March 2024

Similar projects on sdg21:
All project/s of the planning office: ARGE ArchitekturWerkstatt Vallentin with Johannes Kaufmann Architecture, ARGE H2R architects + plan z architects, ARGE agmm architekten + stadtplaner and Hable architects, Dressler Mayerhofer Rössler, Kaden and camp, NEST Architects, Tom Kaden, Interspaces Architects and Urban Planners; Urban region: Munich and surrounding area; Country: Germany; Characteristics: 03 - 4 floors, 07-10-storey, Condominiums, Cooperative, Multi-storey housing, Rental apartments, Residential, Housing project; typology: Settlement; Thematic: Assembly, CarSharing, Mixed wood construction, Wood construction, Wood hybrid construction, Barracks conversion, Urban timber construction

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