Million project in Achrain: After the first rejection, initiators start plan B

The building community, which wants to combine working and living in a studio house in Achrain, is not giving up: it has modified its first concept, which was rejected by politicians.

Plan B also meets with resistance.

But they are confident that they will be able to implement the multi-million dollar project - despite the difficult environment at the intended location.

Murnau

- The rejection in June was clear: Murnau's building committee had unanimously rejected a studio house planning on two plots in the mixed area of ​​Achrain, which had provided for too much living and too little business as well as some changes to the development plan.

The location in the south of a garbage disposal company had shaken heads and raised concerns that there might be conflicts with the important company.

The municipal council had agreed with this view and for urban planning reasons had lowered their thumbs.

Slimmed down concept: Building committee rejects plans again

Now the building association “Atelierhaus im Blauen Land” has made another attempt and presented a modified concept that Marc Heitmeier calls “heavily based on the development plan”, according to his own statements. The architect and project manager wants to move into the facility himself with his family and office. It is now to be implemented as a studio and boarding house with 30 studio apartments, a co-working office, three normal apartments and an underground car park with 30 parking spaces. The use, it was said in the meeting of the building committee, corresponds in principle to the mixed area character, which the development plan ("industrial area Achrain") stipulates. Nevertheless, the administration and local councils see several points at least critically. The building committee rejected the request for a preliminary decision,with which the community had the project checked for problems and feasibility, again unanimously without discussion - because of "multiple deviations from the stipulations of the development plan".

Atelier and boarding house: Building community sees "no insurmountable obstacles"

Heitmeier, however, did not leave the meeting disappointed, but made it clear that he and his colleagues would drive the project, for which he estimated an investment of around eight million euros: "The comments are not dramatic, we will incorporate them." He sees "No insurmountable obstacles" and be "in good spirits" to receive a building permit.

To do this, he wants to coordinate with the authorities.

Studios for artists and freelancers who temporarily live and work on site

“Workation” is the magic word with which the building community now wants to achieve success - an art term and trend made up of the English words work and vacation.

Both should be brought together in the building.

"No classic boarding house" is being planned like the accommodation facility that is planned in Murnau Lindenthal, says Heitmeier.

Rather, they want to live in the studios as a focus on artists and freelancers for up to three months and have them work on site.

Vacationers do not belong to the target clientele.

Achrain: Three permanently used apartments are planned

Eight shareholders are currently on board in the building community;

three, including Heimeier, want to move into 100 to 120 square meter apartments that are intended for permanent use;

According to him, five would help build the studios as an investment.

A patron wants to finance four units in order to make them available to young artists.

A village shop - "no gastro" - is to be added as a kind of community room in which only residents can buy "small amounts" of food.

Building community records "an incredible number of inquiries"

The idea of ​​the hip living and working combination seems to be catching on.

In any case, Heitmeier speaks of "an incredible number of inquiries", also from people who were interested in an investment on the 2800 square meter site, which is separated from the waste disposal company by a building and is located in the south.

Land, surroundings and building rights in the mixed area are "not that easy," admits Heitmeier.

But he accepts that.

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