Between Milchhofstraße and Beckenweiherallee, Ten Brinke and partners are building Milchhof Carré to designs by OOW. The masterplan sets six volumes on roughly 14,000 m² with a shared underground car park and around 20,000 m² GFA — a robust, everyday-friendly residential quarter built to the KfW-55 standard. OOW’s layouts are families of repeatable apartment types, stacked floor by floor. This vertical system reduces interfaces, concentrates building services and lowers costs. Setback storeys were intentionally avoided; they create tortuous service runs and trimmed usable area — the opposite of sound plan efficiency. Where living at ground level would compromise comfort, ancillary uses move in: clearly assigned cellars and refuse rooms, plant and storage that shorten routes and aid orientation. Common rooms within the buildings and shared roof terraces encourage neighbourly life, while the courtyard offers playful pockets for families. The ensemble is all clear forms and fine tectonics: slender bar balustrades at balconies and French windows lend cadence to the façades. Balconies over 1.75 metres deep become true outdoor rooms. Scuppers and downpipes vanish into façade recesses — the building stays composed, the eye rests. Rendered fields in subtly varied tones and a durable textured (brush) render add a tactile grain. Fire-protected escape stairwells enable efficient access to the individual blocks. Below, the car park is legible; deliveries and daily logistics run without detours.

Half the quarter provides income-linked subsidised rentals (EOF), half compact apartments for students. The ground floors add commercial, service and medical practice uses — among others clustered in corner building A2.

Air-to-water heat pumps and photovoltaics form the energetic backbone. Green roofs, places to dwell and short walking connections stitch the open spaces together — a quarter where indoors and outdoors meet naturally. Since the slab-topping in September 2024, fit-out, façade works and building services have been progressing. Completion is planned for early 2026.