Alte Heide - Hirschau: Studentenstadt

Studentenstadt is one of Germany’s largest student housing complexes, set at the northern edge of the English Garden. High-rise residences, shared facilities and international student life create a youthful, self-contained atmosphere with direct access to nature. Immediate access to the English Garden makes one of Europe’s largest urban parks part of the daily route rather than a destination reserved for occasional visits. Different languages, food cultures and patterns of use are visible in ordinary daily life, giving the area a more international character than its architecture alone would suggest. The hierarchy between access roads, pedestrian routes, shared courtyards and larger green spaces makes the original planning idea easy to understand on foot. Mature trees and adapted everyday uses now soften the repetition of the original building types, adding variety and a stronger sense of lived-in continuity.