Cluster Sustainable Real Estate (CSRE)

We are pleased to welcome nine experts on current topics and issues in sustainable real estate this summer semester. Our popular lecture series "Advanced Topics in Sustainable Real Estate," led by Prof. Dr. Bing Zhu, brings expertise and insights from the real estate industry to the lecture hall with master's students.

This semester, Simon Thaler (University of Reading), Rebecca Waerder (Heidelberg Materials), Camilla Bretthauer (Business Campus Management GmbH, DV Immobilien Gruppe), Christian Meister (Hines Immobilien GmbH), Arne Lorz (City of Munich, Planning Department), Gabu Heindl (University of Kassel), Romana Quint (Wertgrund Immobilien AG), Diego Sigrist (Scandens), and Olaf Grawert (b+) will give lectures and discuss with the students.

The lectures take place on Mondays between 11:30 a.m. and 1:00 p.m. in Room 1100 (TUM Main Campus) and are open to guests.

With the start of the new winter semester, the time has finally come again: Our popular lecture series “Sustainability in Real Estate” under the direction of Prof. Bing Zhu brings together exciting experts from the real estate industry with our master's students in civil engineering, architecture and urban planning.

This semester, Prof. Shaun Bond (University of Queensland), Karin Barthelmes-Wehr (ICG Institute), Maria-Theresa Caroli (AIF), Dr. Benno Vocke & Paul Wissel (Sedlmayr AG), Melanie Hammer (BHB Unternehmensgruppe) and Hannah Salzberger (IREBS) will give a lecture on a current topic in the field of sustainable real estate and then discuss it with the students. A great opportunity for knowledge exchange and networking!

The lectures take place on Mondays between 1:15 p.m. and 2:45 p.m. in room 0601 (TUM main campus, Theresianum) and are open to guests.

To the schedule overview

Prof. Dr. Konrad Nübel and Mathieu Wellner will engage with students in the summer semester in the "Master Class in Construction Management," discussing with experts topics including conflict management, communication, and mediation. Additionally, the seminar will explore the complexity of Munich's pedestrian zone as a case study.

“Schwanthalerstraße Promenade – Transformation of a Thoroughfare”: Under this title, an exciting seminar took place in the summer semester. Students engaged with Prof. Dr. Matthias Ottmann and collaborated with UNStudio, sharing experiences from the “The Green Mile” project in Amsterdam, exploring Munich's Schwanthalerstraße. Involving stakeholders and local voices, they examined the urban space and its central role in the development of the southern railway district. Through workshops at TUM Venture Lab Built Environment and group work, measures were developed to create added value in Schwanthalerstraße. The outcome includes a brochure filled with insights and ideas, and this video. We thank all participants!

The growing interest on web3 developments and metaverse concepts is driven by technology/ social media/ game engineering companies. Though 3-dimensional immersive environments have been part of architectural practice in the past decades, architects remain rather absent in the discussions on building a metaverse. The metaverse design lab seeks to raise awareness in higher education in architecture and foster the engagement and active involvement of architects in a field, which could fundamentally redefine the future profession and practice. It is a testing ground for interdisciplinary work to uncover potentials as well as gaps in current higher education for architecture. In designing the real world, architects, civil engineers and urban planners are taking significant responsibility for buildings, urban quarters, cities and open spaces. With the advent of the metaverse a new area is opening up for designing and building immersive experiences. What role will architects, civil engineers and urban planners play in developing jointly with game engineers, programmers, web3 experts, VR/AR specialists and others these new virtual worlds. What responsibility shall they take, what definition of a metaverse will they foster, and what opportunities will they seize? Discuss in an interdisciplinary three-days design workshop these questions. Define a concept of a metaverse for creative and sustainable human interaction in a frame of 10x10x10. Prototype the metaverse using your tools of architecture, engineering and design. Present your 3-dimensional model at an international conference in Munich with world-leading experts from web3, gaming, 3D animation, visual effects, sociology, management and architecture with the Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG).

With Experts and Jury from Public Administration, Software and Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG) 
Apply until 30.09.2022: be-venturelab(at)tum.de (Master’s degree student of architecture, engineering, management, informatics, sociology) 3 ECTS 
October 13 – 15, 2022 / 8:00 - 17:00 / Workshop @TUM Venture Lab Built Environment, Room 2345@0503 
November 8, 2022 / 17:00 - 18:30 / Pitch @Kick-off: MUC.XYZ WEB3 INNOVATION FORUM 
TUM Venture Lab Built Environment | TUM Cluster Sustainable Real Estate | MUC.XYZ

At the Chair of Design and Architecture by Prof. Uta Gaff, architecture students under the supervision of visiting professor Martin Pool will explore vertical housing forms in timber construction during the summer semester of 2022. The current planning of the Garden Quarter in Unterschleißheim by our partner company DV Immobiliengruppe serves as a case study. A publication on the project is available at Prof. Uta Graff's chair.

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