The neighborhood development in Fürstenried West, a district in the south of Munich, aims to create modern and sustainable living space. Around 650 new rental apartments in the mid-price segment are planned, of which around a third will be socially subsidized.

The new living space is to be created mainly on already sealed areas, in the form of additional storeys and in some cases through redensification. The architecture combines efficiency, comfort and sustainability in order to meet the needs of modern families and residents. To this end, the existing buildings are being renovated to make them more energy-efficient and supplemented with additional storeys in timber room module construction.

The site plan shows the buildings that are being extended using modular timber construction with room modules. The three N-buildings and the Y-building will each have two additional storeys, while the S-building will be extended by one storey. A total of 49 new residential units will be created, comprising a wide range of 2- to 5-room apartments.

The elevator shaft served as the basis for the planning, which was raised together with the staircase as a prefabricated reinforced concrete element. An additional level is created between the existing building and the extension, which acts as a load-distributing and cable-conducting layer. This intermediate level distributes the loads of the extension to the load-bearing transverse bulkheads of the existing building, allowing the floor plans of the new apartments to be designed independently of the floors below. This flexibility ensures that the modular structure is no longer recognizable in the interior of the extension.

Each apartment has a balcony and/or terrace and is characterized by generous window areas that create a bright and inviting ambience.

The external appearance of the extension will be clearly recognizable and reflects the materiality of the shell – a pre-greyed timber cladding. This pre-greying promotes an even ageing process of the façade. The existing building, on the other hand, will be renovated to make it more energy-efficient and will be given a white rendered façade, so that the two parts of the building stand out clearly from one another. The targeted positioning of the balconies of the extension directly above the existing balconies creates a dialog between the old and new building fabric.