Airport Munich Air Site

As an extension of Munich Airport, LabCampus has great potential to become a focal point for commercial development within the overall context of the airport – in a space dominated by the airport itself, the autobahn, and the S-Bahn – and it has thus a clear need for a strong identity of its own. The project takes as basis for its new identity Munich’s gravel plain landscape and its main Alpine river, the Isar. The non-place infrastructural elements are then juxtaposed with a place-specific image as a counterpoint. It is an image that strengthens the spatial qualities for users and visitors while anchoring LabCampus as a brand by giving this open space a strong and unique identity. “Isar Boulevard” is the new reference at LabCampus. Evocative of the course taken by the river Isar, it winds its way through the four commercial clusters, tracing the flows of people. It serves as the central axis of circulation, the district’s promenade, and as a metaphorical catwalk in LabCampus’ everyday life. Densely planted green islands, whose vegetation is reminiscent of meadow landscapes, accompany the boulevard along its route. As volumetric forms, they also break up the scale of the sometimes-uninhabited urban open space. Thus “Isar Boulevard” is a linear, everyday park with integrated intermittent functions. By preserving individual identity-giving elements and inserting new “foreign bodies,” various fractures emerge along the boulevard. These shape the identity of the discrete commercial clusters and add to the variety of experiences along the boulevard.