Located near the river Isar, on both sides of the
railway and with views of the Alps beyond, this former employment area ticked
all the boxes for residential redevelopment. The commuter station Siemenswerke
is now at the heart of the new urban quarter of Südseite. Along the railway the
area presents itself with long slabs of apartment blocks with apartment towers
behind.
Once you leave the S-Bahn station the new urban
quarter opens up, revealing an urban park on the westside and communal gardens
on the eastside.
Although a high-density redevelopment, as is usual in
Munich, Südseite feels spacious and green as a result of a conscious placement
of the apartment towers in a sea of enveloping greenery within a clear boundary
of housing. The architecture is modern and of the moment, but without being gimmicky
or using design elements for the sake of it.
The apartment complexes around the towers (left) have
been kept simple in design and echo the treatment of the earlier apartment
slabs (right). The last phase has been treated in a more urban fashion with
long facades in comparison to the earlier buildings which are more segmented.
Beyond the similarly white housing of the second and
third phase stand the colourful building of the first building phase. These apartment
building are long slabs set in communal greenery. The colours are quite typical
for such Zeilenbauten with pastel shades of yellow, green, blue and red.
In phase 3 (left)and phase 2(right) the architecture
is based on simple facades in simple volumes. The detailing around the windows
or the treatment of the ground floor provides ornament and variation.
Seen from a distance Südseite presents itself as a high-density
urban area with the new residential towers at its heart providing a new skyline
together with the former Siemens Office Tower (Siemens Hochhaus) that is just
visible as a grey slab behind the new towers in white.
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