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| Messestadt Riem: An green community |
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"To create a community offering its residents a high quality of life". That goal guided the work of the municipal agencies and expert groups (comprising architects, landscape planners and others) involved in the formulation of the masterplan guiding the development of MS Riem. The masterplan defined "a healthy environment" - one featuring large-sized, variegated expanses of green areas - to be a key component of this quality of life. The implementation of the masterplan was facilitated by a key factor: nearly all of MS Riem's expanse was owned by the municipality of Munich itself. A key feature of the masterplan is a generous allotment of green areas. Such areas occupy nearly half of the community's 550 hectares, with 200 hectares alone going for a park. Designed by the Paris-based Latitude Nord and located in the community's southern reaches, the park is a place of play, a place to enjoy nature. Comprised in the park is a lake and a hill, both now under development. Other green areas in MS Riem include a woods (situated in the community's northeast), and the strips of grass, flowers and shrubs bisecting the community's residential and commercial areas, themselves located close to each other. These strips provide all those working and living in MS Riem with immediate access to greenery. The inclusion of residential, commercial and green areas is another central feature of the masterplan. This inclusion accords with the principles of Agenda 21, the program of action promulgated by the United Nations Conference on the Environment and Development, staged in 1992 in Rio de Janeiro. |
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The reason why Agenda 21 mandates the creation of such all-in-one communities: they enable residents to walk or cycle to work, to shop and to play. This, in turn, reduces the use of cars, thus lessening the incidence of traffic jams and the amount of pollutants spewed into the air. Predominating among the companies resident in MS Riem are those supplying high-tech products and services. Many of them provide these items to Munich's trade fairgrounds, also located in MS Riem, and to the enterprises attending its events. The fairgrounds' main building is the largest in MS Riem. A photovoltaic facility - the largest of its kind in the world - is located on the building's roof. This facility is one of a number of regenerative-based systems found in and on the community's structures. Most of them have also been designed to realize high rates of energy efficiency. The energy the structures consume stems from a cogeneration plant. Its heat is conveyed to the community's structures via a dedicated grid. Making MS Riem even more green: a number of its buildings feature extensive swathes or adjoining borders of plants. For further information, please download the following texts (available in German) Ökologische
Bausteine III.pdf
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