All questions about Sugar Valley.
What exactly is being created in Sugar Valley?
In the south-west of Munich, in the middle of the Obersendling district, a new, style-defining quarter is being created from the former industrial area of the Sendling concrete factory and a brownfield site on the unused former Siemens premises. Where 175 trucks used to arrive and depart every day, a green urban quarter is now being created for everyone. It bridges the gap between modern working and living environments and consistently practiced sustainability. “Sugar Valley” combines architecture and outdoor locations with sustainability, mobility and digitalization in an unprecedented way.
The site with eleven buildings offers around 150,000 m² of rental space and 20,000 m² of open space. This will create space for over 30 types of use from all areas of life and for all population groups – from working to living, from shopping and gastronomy to leisure activities and event locations. “Sugar Valley” will be a district for people of all kinds. It will be a heart and soul district by people for people with an exceptionally high quality of life.
Why is this area not exclusively used for residential space?
A strong mix of uses and the interplay of office, leisure and retail space as well as residential space is essential for the Munich of the future in order to meet the goal of a 15-minute city and maintain the attractiveness of the metropolis. Living space always needs social meeting spaces in the surrounding area, nearby workplaces and direct shopping opportunities. Neighborhoods with mixed use are the ideal combination for the needs of people in the city.
What makes Sugar Valley particularly sustainable?
Sugar Valley’s entire energy concept is based solely on the use of natural resources such as near-surface geothermal energy, sun and wind. Heat pumps and various energy storage concepts are also used. This will completely cover the energy requirements for heating and cooling. The site will be the first district in Munich to be CO2-neutral in terms of heating and cooling. Even the construction will not burden the environment with additional CO2. A separate 100-point plan was developed for this purpose.
What does the 100-point plan contain and how will Munich residents and future neighborhood tenants benefit?
The 100-point plan consists of 100 different individual measures that ensure and increase the sustainability of the entire project during construction and operation right from the start. The measures include climate protection, adaptation to climate change, protection of water and marine resources, transition to a circular economy, waste avoidance, recycling and pollution prevention. In addition, there is the protection of healthy ecosystems, social measures and corporate governance measures. Many of these are voluntary initiatives. In this way, the district is making a significant contribution to achieving the Paris climate targets. Initially, everyone benefits from this. This helps tenants in particular to meet their sustainability targets at company level.
What does the mobility concept look like?
“Sugar Valley” is the neighborhood of short distances. All essential everyday uses can be reached quickly within the district. The connection to the city center is optimal thanks to extensive public transport connections. The streetcar, bus and subway are right at the heart of the district, meaning: “One minute on the subway, 13 minutes to Marienplatz”.
In addition, the area is criss-crossed and networked with many cycle paths. It is a completely car-free quarter above ground, but does not exclude private transport. With around 1,200 parking spaces in the underground parking garage, a hydrogen filling station, e-charging stations and car and bike sharing stations, the mobility offer is optimally rounded off.
What happens to the current user or the “Sugar Mountain”?
From the outset, the “Sugar Mountain” was not intended as an interim use, but as a pioneering one. In addition to the short-term revitalization of the location, the aim was also to test future uses. As a result, the continuation of many of the contents of “Sugar Mountain” in the newly developed quarter was planned from the outset. The “Sugar Mountain” DNA will continue to be transported in “Sugar Valley”, which was important from the outset. Art, culture, leisure and sport will also play a key role in Sugar Valley and contribute to the district’s unmistakable charm. In future, all of this will also be part of the essence of Obersendling. After all, the district is the up-and-coming area in the whole of Munich.
What is special about the designs of the two winning offices for the first construction phase?
“Sugar Valley” is the neighborhood of short distances. All essential everyday uses can be reached quickly within the district. The connection to the city center is optimal thanks to extensive public transport connections. The streetcar, bus and subway are right at the heart of the district, meaning: “One minute on the subway, 13 minutes to Marienplatz”.
In addition, the area is criss-crossed and networked with many cycle paths. It is a completely car-free quarter above ground, but does not exclude private transport. With around 1,200 parking spaces in the underground parking garage, a hydrogen filling station, e-charging stations and car and bike sharing stations, the mobility offer is optimally rounded off.