Olympic Women's Village, Munich Renovation and redesign of the outdoor facilities at the Oberwiesenfeld student bungalow ensemble

Built for the female athletes of the 1972 Olympic Games, the bungalows have since been used as student accommodation.



For the necessary redevelopment of the quarter, a new development of the architectural and open space typologies took place on the basis of the existing buildings. The construction measures on the Oberwiesenfeld student housing complex, which is protected as an ensemble, affected the entirety of the outdoor facilities due to the spatial compactness of the complex. The character of the new planning and the dimensions of the existing building are important points of reference. bogevischs buero Hofmann Ritzer Architekten together with Werner Wirsing, Munich, were responsible for the architectural implementation of the refurbishment and new construction.



Distinctive elements of the open space such as the planting rings, the planting strips along the rows of buildings, the wall slabs at the southern end of the alleys and the materiality of the paving are taken up again and supplemented by individual, deliberately placed elements such as the groups of gleditsia trees. Due to the building regulations and in accordance with the original concept, the majority of the building roofs will also be greened.



The new cubature of the buildings also resulted in a new grid dimension for the paving. For this reason, our office specially developed a concrete paving stone called "Sinus", which replaced the original bone stone concrete paving in a contemporary form.