New building for the Munich overnight shelter

In May 2024, the overnight shelter and a medical facility opened in Lotte-Branz-Straße in Munich.

The overnight shelter offers up to 730 homeless people a safe place to sleep. In addition to the dormitories, the facility, which is run by the Protestant relief organization, has sanitary facilities, kitchens, advice services and a daytime meeting place.

In the medical facility, initial examinations of asylum seekers are carried out in vaccination and X-ray areas and also offers medical care to homeless people.

In order to save costs and time, the project was planned as a timber hybrid system construction. The load-bearing structure consists of a concrete skeleton construction with prefabricated parts. The rising façade consists of robust precast concrete sandwich elements on the first floor and prefabricated timber frame elements from the second floor upwards.

The ease with which this construction method can be converted makes the building particularly sustainable in the event of a future change of use. The use of renewable raw materials for the façade also reduces the building's CO2 footprint. Photovoltaic and biodiversity roofs complement the building's sustainable approach.

The project was completed on time and within budget.