New build - GWG München

Modernisation and
extension
Alpspitzstrasse 8
Badgasteiner Strasse 3
This modernised building on the Alpspitzstrasse,
originally built in the 1950s,
now features a 14-metre-high tower, a
series of walkways and two new storeys.
As previously achieved with the buildings
in the Rattenbergerstrasse and
Alpspitzstrasse, the Michael Morschek
architects from Munich have once again
succeeded in creating a barrier-free
building with contemporary comforts
and modern floor plans combined
with good energy data, thanks to the
incorporation of composite thermal
insulation and thermal glazing as well
as – once again – connection to the city
district heating network.
Initially, the building was returned to its
shell state before concrete was injected
to prepare the foundations for the
additional load resulting from two new
storeys. The 28 apartments enjoy barrier-free
access through a series of
walkways. In a model experiment, the
installation lines were laid in shafts in
front of the façade, to enable repairs to
the lines from the walkways and to prevent
noise transfer to the apartments.
The mixture of sizes ranging from small
one-room apartments up to three and
four-room apartments makes the building
flexible enough to appeal to a range
of target groups.
Again, the Munich landscape gardeners
Teutsch-Ritz-Rebmann fashioned all the
green areas and open spaces.
The building on the Badgasteiner Strasse
appears quite modern, yet it is not new.
It has been given a completely new face
by the addition of two new storeys containing
four apartments each, constructed
using cellular concrete plus a
frontally positioned stairwell with lift
and walkways. Munich architect Michael
Morschek has consciously given the
interior of the building a modern
redesign, bringing a contemporary level
of comfort to the buildings’ apartments,
which are of various sizes and enjoy barrier-free
access.
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Alpspitzstrasse
Original building before modernisation
View from the street side (centre)
and garden side (bottom)