A high-rise ensemble with three buildings up to 65 meters high can be built on Rosenheimer Strasse. The urban design commission, which had rejected the first façade draft, now approves the project.
“Homogeneous and beautifully structured”: the words of the Austrian architect Daniel Fügenschuh are exemplary of the broad approval that the revised facades for a high-rise ensemble on Rosenheimer Straße found in the urban design commission. On this basis, the architects and builders can now continue to plan the project with three buildings up to 65 meters high near Ostbahnhof, between the railway underpass and Friedenstraße.
The Art-Invest company bought the property at Rosenheimer Strasse 139 with a 13-story office building from the 1970s and one- and two-story extensions in 2019. It commissioned the office of Ochs Schmidhuber Architekten (OSA) with a new plan. The concept envisages retaining the core of the existing high-rise building, expanding it on the inside and re-cladding it on the outside. In addition, two new buildings with 17 and 20 floors are to be built.
This is what the original design for the renovation of the existing building and the construction of two more high-rise buildings at Rosenheimer Straße 139 looked like.
(Photo: OSA/NightNurse Images AG)
With the originally planned but very restless facade, OSA failed the first presentation in the spring in the urban design commission and was obliged to revise it. The office presented these at the first commission meeting after the summer break. “For us, it is an essential issue that we divide the building into closed boxes and open terraces,” is how OSA Managing Director Fabian Ochs described the design concept.
With the second version, “clean, tidy structures” were created. Ochs also emphasized that the ensemble “aspires to be particularly sustainable”. A contributing factor is that a lot of so-called gray energy is retained by preserving the existing building, thus avoiding CO₂ emissions. Ochs also stated that the sun protection slats should consist of photovoltaic elements.
“A compliment for differentiating the grid in such an interesting way,” said architect Christoph Sattler, who represents the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts on the city planning commission, “I think the building is so beautiful.” In its conclusion, the commission “approved the revision” and asked for the project to be presented again at a later stage, when the facade was finished.