Educational campus Neufreimann, Munich

Since 2019, a new urban quarter has been taking shape on the site of the former Bayernkaserne barracks in the north of Munich. Its educational campus, completed in 2025, brings together a daycare centre, a primary school and a secondary school on two building plots and offers around 2,500 people a shared place to learn and live each day. ewo has realised the entire outdoor lighting of the Neufreimann campus with the FA luminaire family, a system as varied in its requirements as the campus itself.

The Bayernkaserne vacated the site at the end of 2011. What remained was one of the last large inner-city development areas in Munich. In 2014, the office of Max Dudler, together with Hilmer & Sattler and Albrecht, won the urban planning competition. By 2030, housing for up to 15,000 people is to be built here. The underlying principle follows the Munich Gründerzeit model: perimeter block development, high density, and a diagonally running green boulevard as the backbone.

The Bildungscampus Neufreimann is one of the first completed elements of this quarter. a+r Architekten from Stuttgart developed a new type of school for the project, responding to the tight plot with consistent vertical stacking. Teaching, sport, a canteen and childcare facilities are arranged on top of one another. Where the building volume takes away ground-level space, the design returns it on the rooftops as courtyards, terraces and planted learning areas. The open spaces were planned by Glück Landschaftsarchitektur from Stuttgart in service phases 1 to 5; Stephan Huber Landschaftsarchitektur, Munich, handled the execution.

A campus of this size brings a wide range of outdoor areas: access routes and street spaces, bicycle parking, courtyards at different levels, sports areas on the roof, narrow passages between the buildings. Each of these areas places different demands on light distribution, mounting height and beam characteristics. HL LichtTechnik from Ruhpolding developed the lighting concept and specified the ewo FA for all outdoor areas. Electrical planning was carried out by Ingenieurbüro Knab from Munich.

One of Bavaria’s largest school construction sites required managing multiple changes in the planning team and coordinating complex logistics for the construction and installation process. The strength of the ewo FA luminaire family lies in the fact that very different light distributions can be achieved with an identical housing form. In this context, ensuring close coordination on site during installation was particularly important in order to achieve the intended lighting effect. HL LichtTechnik therefore actively accompanied the construction phase on location.

The ewo FA family offers pole-top luminaires with a clear, geometric form. At the Bildungscampus Neufreimann, it is deployed in various versions and mounting heights, adapted to each area. Throughout, it supports the design consistency of the campus. Against the bright brick facade by a+r Architekten, the FA stands as a natural part of the outdoor environment.