The use of international student fees to improve quality of life and stay on the Weihenstephan campus is currently being discussed intensively. In particular, there is a clear need for high-quality places to spend time, social meeting points, welcoming spaces, and attractive food offerings. Despite numerous individual ideas, there is still no overarching strategy that embeds these approaches within a coherent spatial development framework and structures their implementation over several years.

The project “Campus Habitat” therefore aims to develop a shared vision on the basis of which a series of small, targeted spatial interventions will be designed. These interventions are intended to gradually improve quality of life on campus while also contributing to the development of a socio-ecological corporate identity. The project is led by the Chair of Green Technologies in Landscape Architecture.

Building on the results of previous study projects, theses, and research work on the design of the Weihenstephan campus, the campus is to be further developed as a place for living, learning, and social encounter. The focus lies on student well-being, understood as the interplay of spatial quality, social interaction, mental recovery, experiences of nature, as well as microclimatic and ecological qualities.

In the summer semester of 2026, two interdisciplinary workshops and one overarching semester project will be conducted within the degree program in Landscape Architecture and Planning. The aim is to develop a wide range of design ideas with clearly defined spatial locations that can be implemented as student-led design-build projects in the coming years.

A central element of the project is the active involvement of students from as many degree programs on the Weihenstephan campus as possible. In interdisciplinary formats, students’ perspectives and needs will directly inform the formulation of key questions. In a first interdisciplinary workshop, the campus will be jointly analyzed and explored; in addition, a shared vision and initial ideas for spatial interventions will be developed. These will form the conceptual basis for the semester project in landscape architecture. In a second workshop, the designs will be reflected upon, further developed, and refined with input from all disciplines.

By the end of the semester, a broad range of concrete ideas for improving the quality of stay on campus will be available. The most promising interventions will be recognized and realized in the following years. The project is conceived as a long-term process. It adapts to changing conditions and promotes continuous transdisciplinary exchange between the campus as a place of teaching and research and the everyday living environment in Vötting and Freising. In addition, low-threshold participation formats supported by the various student councils are being considered in order to enable the long-term co-creation of the campus—potentially also with the involvement of HSWT.

The results of the first project phase in the summer semester of 2026 will be presented on 13 July 2026 and subsequently exhibited on campus. A competition jury will select the interventions recommended for implementation.

Important dates

Kick-off: 20 April 2026
Information session on the studio project: 13 April 2026
Registration deadline: 13 April 2026, 6:00 pm

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Modules

Master’s Landscape Architecture Project
15 ECTS / 8 SWS
Course no.: 0000002226
Course no.: 0000002227 (advanced module)

Bachelor’s Landscape Architecture Project 5
15 ECTS / 6 SWS
Course no.: 0000002852

Location

Freising, E42

Kick-off

20 April 2026

Excursion

07 May 2026 – 12 May 2026

Language

German / English

Supervision

Monday, 09:30-12:30 
                13:30-18:00

Teaching staff

Prof. Ferdinand Ludwig
Christoph Fleckenstein, M.A.
Kristina Pujkilovic, M.A.
Lennard Höpfner, M.A.

In collaboration with Landstrich: 

Gero Engeser, M.A.

Matthias Oberfrank, M.A.

Contact

christoph.fleckenstein(at)tum.de