Urban Planning
The Werksviertel Munich, Germany, is the development of a former industrial site into an independent quarter for residential, commercial, social, and cultural activities with open public spaces for events and other forms of entertainment, carefully curated by the main owner, the OTEC.
The Werksviertel is connected to the core of Munich by the Ostbahnhof in the north and functions as urban interface.
The existing activities are to be gradually cultivated, consolidated and updated, while new developments are initiated at the same time. Urban diversity, spatial events and programmatic innovation are the focus of the design work, which is joint by several European architecture studios - steidle architects as leading architects and urban planners.
Housing will be integrated into the overall urban concept of the Werksviertel as a further, unique urban building block. Two factors are of crucial importance: the use of the ground floor as an active interface between public and private space, as well as a broad mix of living space typologies. Only when added together the actual value emerges: a new piece of modern, sustainable city, the Metropolitan City of Munich!
