Munster, Germany

Case Study for Civic Centre

Expressway network leading to Munster Munster Green belt enclosing the city centre

Climate : Warm and Temperate The green belt encloses the civic centre comprising of
Population: 300,000 the main market, town halls, office buildings,
Area of the city: 302.9 Sq.km recreational area and the central church.
Major Architectural Style: Gothic and Baroque
Hohenzollern Ring

Green Belt

Roads defining the entry

ways to the city centre
Civic Centre
Typology of buildings in the civic centre:

1. Religious (church)
2. Museums
3. Universities
4. Town halls
5. Office buildings
6. Shopping Centers and Markets
7. Cafes and plazas
 Influence of the green belt on the civic centre:

• Buffer from the city sprawl

• Enclosure of the city centre
• Minimization of vehicular traffic
• Easy pedestrian movement through it to the centre
• Forms the urban arteries
• Increases the social connectivity within the city.

Outside the belt Vehicular Movement Node Inside the belt

Depicting Area under study
 Main road arteries

Enclosed Centre in
the radial road

Radial nature of the

main road

Distributed Areas

Simplified street analysis

 Inferences of the street pattern:

• Radial circulation
• No congestion
• Better Connectivity
• Balance of ingress and egress
• Flexible connections to known sequences
(pattern of legibility)
• Continuous organization
• Decreasing hierarchical pattern of paths

Footfall circulation pattern in the civic centre

 Image quality at Node A

A B

Image quality at Node B

Image quality at Node C

Varying image quality due to radial structuring and the number of nodes.