Climate Strikes!

Designs Proposals for a Sustainable Campus in Garching

Exhibition at the research campus in Garching as part of the TUM Sustainability Day – Eberhard-von-Kuehnheim-Bau, Boltzmannstraße 15, Garching

10.06. - 14.06.2024

Exhibition

Current problems regarding climate change have recently been recognized. Cities, for example, are struggling with the heat island effect – an enormous heating in particularly sealed areas with little greenery. Studies predict that the climate of Munich in 2050 will be comparable to the current conditions in Milan. Movements such as Fridays for Future or agreements such as the Paris Climate Agreement show a social consensus for demands for more climate protection. Unfortunately, these demands often remain demands. This is often the case in planning processes in landscape architecture, where efforts to make our environment more climate-friendly and sustainable are often lost in the negotiation process. Few specifications and binding target values for Green Infrastructure in public spaces are subject to many “grey” standards.

Precisely defined figures specify what a road cross-section must measure or how the areas for the fire brigade must be dimensioned. But who is right, and what would happen if the top priority would be a specific number or factor for Green Infrastructure? The designs of the project Climate Strikes! deal with this idea. Binding requirements for the re-planning of the situations on the campus in Garching was the achievement of a target value for green infrastructure, the Biotope Area Factor (BAF).

Task
The project Climate Strikes! aimed to achieve the target value of 0.6 based on Berlin’s specifications for converting and constructing public facilities. The before and after photos illustrate how the image of our built environment changes when the framework conditions shift towards an increasingly ecological and sustainable focus.

Curation & Project Lead
Rafael Stutz
Gero Engeser

Publication
The results of the project Climate Strikes are published as a downloadable brochure via madiatum.

Supervision
Prof. Dipl.-Ing. Regine Keller
M.A. Rafael Stutz
M.A. Gero Engeser