A ring shaped
building
The Ring — Rosenheim (D)
Creating a lively, interactive and communicative centre for everyone is the core objective of our project.
For this purpose, a footbridge structure is created in the green courtyard of a ring-shaped building, which connects all „public“ functions of the Campus RO. The footbridge is a 3-dimensional development system with connected learning functions, meeting points, laundry saloon with kiosk and communal kitchen, café, library, sauna, bicycle workshop, gym, cinema party barbecue pavilion, communal roof terrace and the „private“ balconies for the residents.
All residential modules (student housing and boarding house) are located within the building ring and connect to the footbridge, which serves as a link between the units and the green courtyard. The walkway resembles a village street, lined with public amenities (church, bakery, inn, town hall, etc.) alongside the residential buildings.
At the heart of the walkway, a communicative centre will be created as a meeting point for all residents and guests of the complex. The courtyard itself will be occupied and activated with various uses from the areas of learning, sport and „being together“. This will create a ring-shaped campus around a lively, pulsating and inspiring centre – a new and innovative way of (student) living together.
The compact-looking outer ring houses the individual residential and communal areas of the campus. In the corner areas, the ring opens up to the outside, creating contact between the campus interior and its surroundings. Thus, despite its compact appearance, the ring actually consists of four almost equal building parts that could in principle accommodate four different but interconnected areas of use.
To the east, the Ring opens up generously in the direction of the university and invites visitors to enter and visit. One then walks from the green centre of the courtyard over the footbridge to one’s residential unit or the intended community facility. This tour could end on the spacious southern roof terrace on the 4th floor.
For sustainability and building physics, stacked, prefabricated wooden room modules are preferred. However, a modular hybrid construction (wood-steel-concrete) is also an option for cost reasons. A ventilated timber façade, made of horizontally layered boards that narrow toward the top, is hung in front of the modules to create a lightened effect. The self-supporting web structure is made of concrete, set in front of the building ring for physics decoupling, with walkway drainage through downpipes integrated into the structure. Railings and guardrails are cost-effectively built with tubular steel frames and tensioned metal mesh.
