The buildings for the Faculty of Sport and Health Sciences are presently being reconstructed. As planned, a fully renewed campus on the grounds of the TUM Campus in the Olympiapark will be completed by 2022. On Monday March 30, 2015, TUM-Chancellor, Albert Berger, announced the winning concept for the architecture competition. The winner is the architectural firm of Dietrich Untertrifaller of Bregenz, Austria, with Balliana Schubert as a landscape architect.
"The planning of this reconstruction for the Faculty of Sport and Health Sciences and the Center for University Sports is a large and ground-breaking objective", claimed the TUM-Chancellor, Albert Berger, in the course of the opening of the exhibition.
27 concepts to be seen until April 7, 2015
From the 30 architectural firms invited, 27 presented their plans in an anonymous procedure for assessment by an international jury made up of architects and city planners, members of the TUM, politicians as well as representatives from the Ministry of Science. Until April the 7th, all of the proposals by the participating architectural firms can be viewed in the gymnastics hall of the TUM Campus in Olympiapark (Connollystr. 32, 9 a.m.-7 p.m., free admission).
Reconstruction of the central university sporting grounds (ZHS; Zentrale Hochschulsportanlage) by 2022
The grounds with its dimensions of 34 hectares was designed for the Olympic Games of 1972 and is used together by the Faculty for Sport and Health Sciences as well as for the central university sporting grounds (ZHS) of Munich. These facilities are used by about 2,400 TUM and LMU students as well as by about 17,000 individuals per semester who are active in sports from all of the Munich universities and colleges. Altogether, 125,000 students and 30,000 employees are entitled to make use of the ZHS.
However, the building was recently seen to be in need of reconstruction and could no longer be saved. For this reason, it has been successively torn down and will be replaced by a new building, to be carried out in two stages, by 2022. The overall costs are estimated to be about 130 million euros.
Coupling of theory and practice
"One of our primary goals for the new building is that theory and practice be coupled together even more closely in the future, also through their spatial proximity. In this way, a functional procedure should be guaranteed between science and practice, and encounters should virtually be provoked", says Prof. Dr. Ansgar Schwirtz, Dean of the Faculty for Sport and Health Sciences. This bridge-building has been achieved especially well with the submission by the winning architects.
"The proposal has absolutely convinced me. The ground plan is clearly structured, simple and sharp", claims Dr. Till Lorenzen, Executive Director of the Faculty. "The project has nationwide significance. We discussed the three winning proposals extremely intensively, to finally conclude with a large majority in favor of the work from Untertrifaller ", says Prof. Peter Pfab, who is responsible from the upper authorities for the construction of university buildings.
Winning proposal: A building of wood and glass
The idea from the architects of Dietrich Untertrifaller consists of a two-storied complex with six courtyards, in which both laboratories as well as sports halls are located. In the middle, the individual areas are connected by way of a west-east axis which serves to enable an exchange and encountering area. The labs and sports halls are arranged in rectangular complexes each diagonally opposite one another.
The special feature: The building is principally made up of wood and glass. "The wood construction is energetically more sustainable and additionally spares more resources. Furthermore, construction can proceed very rapidly and with a relatively small influence on the neighboring community since there is less dirt and noise to contend with. After all, we are building in the middle of a park", exclaims Helmut Dietrich, Director of the winning architecture firm. "The integration in den Olympiapark has been achieved very well and, at the same time, we have also maintained a space with a stunning living and working environment", says Prof. Schwirtz happily.
Photos from the winning proposals in our photo galleryAn additional eye-catcher of this proposal is the 22 meter wide roofing, which just spans over a 400 meter tartan track located on the western side. A view of this covered region and the sports fields which lie behind this can be seen from the library and from the canteen. The entrance to the grounds can be found for pedestrians by way of the Olympic Village, which leads directly to the central axis. In the future, the TUM Campus in the Olympiapark can be reached from the south side by motor vehicles.
Further steps: Feasibility check and approval by the state parliament
Since the architectural competition has now been completed, the planning will be accelerated over the coming weeks and the realizability of the winning proposal will be evaluated. After the approximately one-year planning phase, the final construction approval should be obtained from the Bavarian state parliament by the end of 2016. Following the appropriate preparatory measures, the construction could then begin in 2017. In 2020/21 the first step should be completed with the lecture halls, seminar rooms, the library as well as the sports halls and dressing rooms. Ideally, the moving of the faculty into the Olympiapark should take place in 2021/22, after the conclusion of the entire building project.
"Through this construction, we will establish a new accent in the Bavarian and southern German area - and hopefully also even beyond", concludes TUM-Chancellor Berger.
The further winners:
2nd prize: Gerber Architectural firm.
3rd prize: Hascher Jehle Architectural firm with HUTTERREIMANN
4th prize: Auer and Weber Associated with Latz+Partner
5th prize: Staab Architectural firm with the landscape architect Levin Monsigny
Recognition: JSWD Architects with Chaix & Morel Paris with KLA kipar landscape architects
Recognition: SPREEN ARCH with Waechter + Waechter with terra.nova
Recognition: h4a Gessert + Randecker with Hackl Hofmann landscape architects
All of the proposals by the participating architectural firms can be viewed from March 31 to April 7, 2015 in the gymnastics hall of the TUM Campus in Olympiapark (Connollystr. 32, 80805 Munich). The exhibition is open daily - also during the Easter Holidays - from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m., admission is free.