Munich Berliner Straße Urban planning and landscape planning ideas competition, 1st prize group Revision, recommendation of the jury for further work

Between 1980 and 1990, one of the last large open spaces
between Ungererstrasse and Leopoldstrasse was built in Schwabing North with 1500 apartments and commercial space.
It became a district of Schwabing with streets, squares, green spaces and from the traffic secluded, quiet residential yards in human scale.

The urban concept for the Berliner Straße is diametrically detached from the guiding principles of the dissolved city with point houses and residential rows in which the open spaces are reduced to a distance green.

The model for the urban planning of the Berliner Strasse development area was the idea of the garden city with quiet inner courtyards and space-creating streets and squares accompanied by avenues and front gardens.

Existing, superordinate footpath and cycle path connections were adopted and continued.
All footpath and cycle path connections meet in the middle of the housing estate around the lake of the dammed Nymphenburg Canal.

We received from the measure carrier, the GBWAG, the order for an open space design plan of the public and private open spaces.
This was to achieve a uniform appearance of the open spaces, especially the public space, for the various developers in the area. In the open space design plan M= 1:500 the general heights for the streets and the ground floor heights of the houses were specified. As further contents the planting of the public areas with the avenues and the front gardens, the furnishing, the covering of the footpaths, the lighting, the division routes in coordination with the tree pits were specified.
This plan was binding for the further planning in the areas of the individual developers, since apart from us for the open spaces different landscape architects were assigned.
The public spaces are planned so generously: wide sidewalks, wide house entrances and squares with seating for the stay make a varied use of the open spaces possible.
The street-accompanying avenues have wide tree trenches (3m) so that the trees have optimal living conditions.
The main development streets were planted with large-crowned avenue trees such as sycamore and Norway maple and sycamore trees, the side streets with small-crowned trees.
The different tree species serve as orientation for the residents blossoms, leaves and foliage as well as the autumn color and the scent of linden make the seasons in the residential area tangible.
The front gardens facing the street are set slightly higher to protect the ground floor apartments and are planted with clipped hedges.
The enclosed residential courtyards alternate with semi-public courtyard areas for pedestrian access.

The residential courtyards are planted with clipped hedges and flowering shrubs in front of the ground floor apartments, with fruit trees and a large tree such as a lime tree that provides shade for the children's play area for young children.
The semi-public courtyard areas for pedestrian access are architecturally designed. Wide sidewalks, playgrounds, benches, and feature a fountain and public art.
Small-crowned trees accompany the paths, important vantage points or path crossings are planted with special trees such as columnar oak, columnar poplar or weeping willow by the lake.
Superordinate green relationships are marked by specific tree species such as chestnut.
It was a great concern of ours to make the existing natural beauty of Ungererpark and the Nymphenburg Canal, which we have dammed up to form the central lake, the landscape focal point of the settlement.
The lake and its surrounding open spaces became a new attraction for walkers beyond the residential area.

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Garden and Landscape 07/1978 and 01/1981
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