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GESUNDHEIT UND WELLNESS • HEALTH AND SPA TECHNISCHER AUSBAU • TECHNICAL SOLUTIONS

Die Taillierung der Elemente erzeugt Oberlichtöffnungen. • Tapering the elements created skylight openings.

Die Rue Intérieure mit einem Dachtragwerk aus BSH • The Rue Intérieure with a roof structure made of glulam Auch die Terrasse der Cafeteria wird vollständig überdacht. • The cafeteria terrace is also completely roofed over.

L ight, freshness, generosity: the spirit of the 1972 Olympics in Munich still applies times. With the appropriate logistics for planning, production, delivery and assembly,
today to our design of the Sports and Health Sciences Campus of the Technical Uni-
the hall clusters could be erected in only two months. The most challenging element
versity of Munich in the listed Olympic Park. With respect for the surroundings, we de- was the canopy with its 18.60-metre projection and 9.30-metre anchoring in the buil-
veloped an identity-creating and appropriate solution for the faculty and the university ding. It spans the entire west side of the complex. For this, we developed a special tim-
sports centre: the 185-metre long and 153-metre wide two-storey wooden building in- ber construction that was easy to assemble thanks to its very high rigidity and minimal
tegrates into the master plan by Behnisch & Partner. The new horizontal large sculpture weight. We prefabricated 3.75-metre-wide and 28-metre-long box girder elements, each
of the TUM Campus with its 19-metre cantilevered canopy confidently asserts itself in with a dead weight of 19 tonnes, which are supported at four points – two strong com-
the landscape designed by Günther Grzimek without dominating it. In order to best pression columns and two slender tension columns. The required cross beams are in-
meet the diverse requirements of the future users – the students and staff of TUM – our tegrated into the elements. The moments of the cantilever area are transmitted as ten-
decision was made in favour of a light and airy wooden construction. With a 30-metre sion and compression components via continuous laminated veneer panels of the
span, the various functions could be optimally combined. 14 sports halls, 12 lecture upper and lower chord into the field area. The panel formats and their arrangement
halls, 15 diagnostic rooms, five workshops, 300 offices, a cafeteria and a library now were also decisive: the panels are up to 20 metres long so that they could be glued
form a lively and versatile campus. Along a central circulation axis, we divided two clu- continuously up to the rear cross beam. This type of design enabled a construction
sters of halls and two clusters of institutes. This Rue Intérieure runs through the entire height of the roof elements of only 1.60 metres and the resulting design effect of a con-
building from east to west and connects the areas of sport, teaching and research with tinuous roof. The element is completed by top and bottom planking made of approxi-
diverse visual axes and generous glazing. Inner courtyards penetrate the core of the mately 50 millimetre thick laminated veneer panels. The sports halls, the institute
building, allow daylight to enter and add variety to the circulation layout. The accom- areas and the complete roof construction were also designed as timber constructions.
panying landscape concept by Balliana Schubert focuses on the dialogue between the In addition to wide-span glulam beams, we also used hybrid ceilings in wood-concrete
building and the park-like sports landscape. The various sports fields form a new path: composite construction and prefabricated wooden elements for ceilings and walls. The
a Rue Extérieure. To further strengthen the connection between landscaped space and central axis, stiffening stair cores, auditorium, climbing hall and the basement were
architecture, we decided to work with natural materials like wood. Timber construc- constructed as reinforced concrete structures, as was the supporting structure for the
tion also enabled us to achieve a high degree of prefabrication and thus short assembly technical sections between the sports halls. Wood, however, dominates the design!

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