The task of my Diploma Thesis - the Leonrodt Art District on a site occupied by abandoned industrial facilities - evolved around a fundamental problem: Is it possible to design a space for creativity to emerge? The project turned out to become a lesson in what architecture at some point should refrain from designing. Basically the site consists of a campus-like structure of medium sized facilities built around 1900 that once where part of the industry located outside the city. Since Munich nowadays totally encloses the site and since their necessity became obsolete the conversion of the abandoned buildings gave the chance to create an unique new part of town. The basic strategy, on the one hand, aims to preserve all the run-down buildings and give their fate in the hands of the artists that want to occupy it. On the other hand, the new art campus is enclosed with a dense urban structure that programmatically refers to the context and provides affordable residences.