Educational Campus with Sports Fields | München Riem by Glück Landschaftsarchitektur

The newly established ‘Educational Campus in Riem, Munich’ is enhancing the development in the form of urban planning of the western gateway to ‘Messestadt Riem’. The new sports park in the south, designed for school and club activities, links Riemer Park to the city’s entrance.

The entrance to the school campus is defined by a spacious plaza at the intersection of Joseph-Wild-Street and Paul-Wassermann-Street, which serves as the gateway to the educational campus and connects the public space with the school campus. The outdoor facilities span around the campus with a homogeneous ‘floor rug’ and connect the different areas as a continuous campus floor.

Polygonal forms appear as ‘landscape imprints’ embedded freely in the ground, referencing to the adjacent Riem Park both visually and conceptually. These ‘landscape imprints’, created with diverse materials, surface treatments and vegetation types, form artistic landscape images that highlight key areas such as the entrance plaza, recreational zones and even extend into the internal courtyards of the buildings. Their organic design language deliberately contrasts the orthogonal architectural layout of the school buildings, resulting in a dynamic and diverse interplay between built structures and open spaces.

Various programmatic elements are integrated into the landscape imprints. Green islands with loosely and densely planted groves of diverse, climate-resilient trees species together form a green volume on the campus. These shaded green areas help reduce temperatures during hot summer months and provide high-quality outdoor spaces thanks to the evaporative cooling of the tree crowns.

Permeable gravel surfaces are recessed into the surrounding paving, retaining rainwater at the source and providing irrigation for adjacent vegetation. Native perennial planting beds support the site’s biodiversity by offering a rich habitat for flora and fauna. Sculptural artificial mounds of rock serve both as visual highlights and inviting resting points for students.

In addition to quiet zones, active islands for streetball and table tennis are also integrated, along with a school garden that serves as an educational space. The transition from the public square to the school’s recreation area is fluid, inviting visitors to linger in a variety of outdoor settings. In front of the cafeteria, one such landscape imprint – the ‘Lemonade Garden’ – acts as a gathering and recreation space for students, while also forming a bridge between the campus and the surrounding neighbourhood.

A barrier-free underpass beneath Joseph-Wild-Street connects the education campus with the southern sports park. A pavilion marks the architectural entry point to the sports park. Additional landscape islands in this area create green recreation spaces for athletes as well. The sports park connects to the main long axis of Riemer Park and is organized into two clearly defined zones, where sports fields are laid out in a compact north-south orientation.

To the west, a wall and noise barrier shield the sports park from traffic noise from nearby roads and the adjacent highway. The difference in elevation to the Riemer Landscape Park is mediated through topographical modelling and retaining walls. Smaller plazas at the southern entrance and the main eastern access point incorporate the surrounding paths of the sports park and guide visitors into Riem’s larger open-space system.

Size of the project
15.700 m² (educational campus)
+ 38.700 m² (sports park)

Fotocredits
Stefan Leppert, Benno Steuernagel-Gniffke, Lucas Reyer

• All architecture offices involved in the design:
h4a Gessert + Randecker Generalplaner GmbH, Stuttgart

• Other credits:
Companies involved:
Educational campus: Stephan Huber Landschaftsarchitektur, Munich (LPH6-9)
Sports park: EGL Entwicklung und Gestaltung von Landschaft GmbH, Landshut (LPH6-9)
Building construction: Architekturbüro Leinhäupl + Neuber GmbH, Landshut