The use of international tuition fees to improve the 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 and dining options. Despite numerous individual ideas, there is still no overarching strategy that embeds these approaches into a coherent spatial development framework and structures their implementation over several years.

The bachelor’s thesis “Campus Weihenstephan – Blau Grün”, following on from the project “Campus Habitat,”therefore aims to develop an overarching blue-green strategy for the Weihenstephan campus. The strategy to be developed is intended to help ensure that existing and new qualities of stay—especially microclimatic and ecological qualities that depend on water—remain perceptible and accessible in the future.

To this end, an analysis phase will first be carried out as group work to identify the existing water resources that can be used to promote microclimatic and ecological qualities. This phase forms the first part of the research design. Together with the findings from the analysis conducted in the “Campus Habitat” project, it provides the basis for the subsequent design phase. In this phase, blue-green strategies for the Weihenstephan campus will be developed individually. At the same time, the design phase also constitutes the actual scope of the bachelor’s thesis. Active exchange with participants from the “Campus Habitat” project is encouraged during this phase in order to make direct use of synergies. Finally, in a group-work setting, the different strategies developed will be compared and the knowledge gained from them will be documented. This forms the second and final phase of the research design.

The following guiding questions may serve as orientation:

What water resources are available on the Weihenstephan campus to support greenery, and how can they be meaningfully integrated into a blue-green strategy for the campus?

What qualities of stay can be created or improved through the use of these water resources?

Where and in what ways does water already shape space on the Weihenstephan campus and contribute to the quality of stay on campus?

In the end, this will result in a wide range of strategic proposals for activating the blue-green potential of the Weihenstephan campus. The insights gained from this process will make a significant contribution to the further development of the campus’s open spaces.

Location: 

Freising, E42

Important dates:

Start of the bachelor’s thesis: 16 April 2026
Submission deadline for the bachelor’s thesis: 16 July 2026
Information session on the bachelor’s thesis: 13 April 2026
Registration deadline for the research design: 13 April 2026, 6:00 p.m.

If you are interested in writing your bachelor’s thesis at GTLA, please register for the research design in TUMonline.
Course number: 0000002168

When registering, please be sure to indicate your preferred ranking in TUMonline for the bachelor’s theses offered (priority 1 = first choice, priority 2 = second choice, etc.).

Teaching team: 

Prof. Ferdinand Ludwig 

Christoph Fleckenstein, M.A.

Dipl.-Ing. Andreas Dittrich

Contact: 

christoph.fleckenstein(at)tum.de

ferdinand.ludwig(at)tum.de