Olympic Village

The Olympic Village, which housed male athletes during the 1972 Games, is now a popular residential area for around 6,000 people. Designed by the architecture firm Heinle, Wischer and Partner, the complex was an urban planning experiment of its time, offering all the functions of daily life in a compact space. The terraced layout is oriented toward the sun, and the four access roads run underground, making the surface of the Olympic Village car-free.

While the former men’s Olympic Village is used as a residential neighborhood as originally planned, the women’s Olympic Village to the south now serves as student housing. The bungalows were renovated between 2007 and 2010. The original architect, Werner Wirsing, collaborated with the Munich-based firm Bogevischs Buero on the redesign. By reducing the building width, the number of bungalows increased from 800 to 1,052. In addition, each resident has the opportunity to design the façade of their bungalow individually.