Urban living at the Prinz Eugen Park, Munich – Residential complex with hybrid diversity & social uses

263 residential units, 2 kindergartens, 3 assisted living groups and an underground car park

Lively Variety

Shelves establish order, they provide structure and, like type cases,
are open to various different contents. The municipally subsidized
housing estate in Prinz-Eugen-Park is informed by the basic shape of the
storage rack and brings new identity to what used to be military
barracks premises. With their individual façade designs, the
heterogenous individual townhouses express variedness and richness of
detail within the structural framework of the rack. The lively interplay
of basic structure and contents unfolds a special charm which also
becomes manifest in one additional feature: The stairwell also provides
an expanded community area and central communication space. It is
articulated as a transparent airy garden house which, like an orangery,
establishes a microclimate between interior and exterior and also makes
for ideal daylighting in the circulation areas and the adjoining
apartments. Seen this way, the housing estate in Prinz-Eugen-Park can be
said to celebrate the reciprocity of form and content. Here is where
liveliness and variety come together and flourish.