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Circular Urban Redevelopment at Dachauer Strasse

Bachelor's Thesis B.Sc. Landscape Architecture and Planning, Summer Semester 2024

Topic

In view of the climate emergency and increasing scarcity of resources, our approach to the environment must be must be fundamentally reconsidered. Construction activities and the and the production of building materials generate harmful emissions and waste. An enormous amount of energy is stored in energy is stored in the built space, so-called grey energy. Conversion instead of instead of new construction, urban mining and the circular reuse of used components are therefore currently being intensively are therefore currently being discussed intensively as strategies for saving CO2 in architecture. This is less of a topic in landscape architecture, although design tasks in open spaces can hardly ever be considered in isolation from the existing building stock.

Task

In the Research Designs in Landscape Architecture module, the basic principles for the design task on Sandstrasse are determined, documented and analysed in group work. In addition to the open space analysis, there is a particular focus on the systematic documentation of the existing situation in the form of a material catalogue. The subsequent Bachelor's thesis is an individual piece of work and is supervised by Prof. Regine Keller in three design critiques. The aim is a detailed open space design for the urban space around the Sandstraße tram stop, which takes into account its complex location in the field of tension between open space, traffic, the health centre and the Maxvorstadt district, and responds carefully to existing qualities and materials.