Rooftop garden, Düsseldorf, Germany
- Project type Office & Commercial
- Planning Phases LPH 1-3,6,7,8 (preliminary design, design, tendering & awarding of contracts, construction management)
- Planning time 2019-2020
- Construction Time 2020-2021
- Responsibilities Project and construction management, coordination of the structural inspection, as well as detailing: M. Mladenova on behalf of von Klaus Klein (WKM Landscape Architects)
- Client Wahlerstraße Projekt GmbH
- Project Partners Deilmann Architects Urban Planners, Düsseldorf
The Project “Campus Ro“ is located in the immediate vicinity of Rosenheim University of Applied Sciences, but due to a lack of urban context, the concept must develop the quality of the living space from within. The primary goal is therefore to offer residents an innovative, enriching, and inspiring living environment for this formative period. The concept deliberately incorporates characteristics of small-scale urban structures and combines them into a living space that is both appropriately scaled and urban.
The settlement structure is continued three-dimensionally for further densification. The rows of houses are stacked and nested, and accessed via various staircases, paths, and galleries. All apartments are entered directly from the outside and have windows on two sides. Optimized for transparency, orientation, sunlight, and views, the stacking ranges from one to four stories. The resulting roof surfaces on different levels are integrated into the path system and used as roof top gardens. The proximity to the individual houses allows for immediate use by the residents.
The network of paths and open spaces, plazas and gardens extends across all residential levels, offering diverse visual connections. Crucially, this multifaceted outdoor space, situated at the interface between public and private living areas, naturally creates a space for interaction among residents. The vertical greenery stretching between floors ensures that apartments receive sufficient shade and privacy. The inevitable encounters along the way to each apartment foster the development of social spaces and thus prevent any anonymity, despite the high number of residents.
The planting concept is based on robust Mediterranean plants such as oleaster (wild olive), ornamental onion, sedum, Virginia creeper, and evergreen honeysuckle, and provides habitat for many native bee and butterfly species.
A major goal of the design is to reuse rainwater from the roof surfaces to irrigate the planting areas, thus creating maximum sustainability in routine maintenance.
The project has received several sustainability awards.
