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Number of projects displayed: 45

    we-house.life Baakenhafen Quarter (Hamburg)

    Photos: Eble Messerschmidt PartnerD - 20457 Hamburg Baakenhafen: the eight-storey townhouse in Hamburg's Hafencity will be realised with 52 apartments as an ecological-social whole organism for approx. 180 residents. The consistent ecological orientation of the building concept ensures a low ecological footprint over the entire life cycle: solid wood construction (board stacks), solar power systems on the façade and roof, water and biomass circulation systems with grey water recycling and terra preta production, intensive façade greening and the greenhouse for growing vegetables on the roof. The design was awarded first prize in the we-house Baakenhafen realisation competition. Completion: 2023



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    SKAIO - the highest wooden house in Germany

    Fig.: Kaden and Lager, Berlin74076 Heilbronn: The architects Kaden & Lager from Berlin are building 60 rental apartments in Heilbronn on the J1 site on behalf of Stadtsiedlung Heilbronn, a ten-storey timber hybrid house.



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    4-star Hotel Jakarta in Amsterdam

    NL - Amsterdam: the first energy-neutral hotel in Amsterdam with 700 m² of PV modules in the south and east façades. The glass roof above the atrium is also fitted with Photovoltaics which also functions as a sunshade. It was possible to dispense with an air conditioning system. Geothermal energy serves as a further energy source. Rainwater is collected to irrigate the garden in the hall. The building received an "Excellent" rating under the BREEAM (Building Research Establishment Environmental Assessment Method) sustainability certification system.



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    Student dormitory "Woodie

    21109 Hamburg-Wilhelmsburg: 2017 the largest wooden house in Hamburg. The six storeys consist of 371 wooden modules measuring just under 20 square metres, which are stacked on top of each other in pre-assembled form. The individual modules weigh more than nine tons and are virtually ready-made student apartments, including bathroom, kitchenette and bed. Only the foundation and the staircases are made of concrete. A furnished apartment costs around 500 euros warm rent per month. Completion: 2017



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    Living at the Dantebad

    80637 Munich: 100 residential units plus common rooms in 4-storey timber system construction above a public car park. Architect: Florian Nagler, Client: GEWOFAG. Completion: early 2017



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    Active townhouse in Frankfurt

    Photo: ABG FRANKFURT HOLDING

    60327 Frankfurt: Energy-plus building, BMUB-supported. 74 residential units and 2 commercial units, gross floor area: 11,700 m². The building itself generates the energy required by the residents for heating, ventilation, water heating, household, elevator and general electricity. The energy supply including electricity is included in the flat rate rent. Surpluses can be used by the residents for e-mobility. Completion: 2015



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    Tübingen building group "Dreiklang

    Triad southwest view72074 Tübingen-Lustnau: Naturally ventilated KfW Efficiency House 55 in timber construction in the new Old Weaving Mill" Quarter, Tübingen. 9 apartments and 1 commercial unit on the ground floor. Architecture: Joachim Eble Architektur. Local heat supply from biogas plant. Completion: 2014



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    7-storey wooden building "c13

    c13_110405 Berlin Prenzlauer Berg: Family, education and health centre. Usable area: 3,295 sqm (including basement), living area: 2,350 sqm. 7 WEs, other uses: Student housing, therapy and medical practices, painting studio, office space, family centre, restaurant, two event areas and KiTa. Construction costs: 6.5 million euros, architecture: Kaden Klingbeil Architekten. Client: Foundation for Christian Education, Values and Way of Life. Year of construction: 2013



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    Energy bunker, IBA Hamburg

    21107 Hamburg-Wilhelmsburg: The former flak bunker in Wilhelmsburg has become a symbol of the climate protection concept Renewable Wilhelmsburg. The monument, which has been virtually unused since the end of the war, was refurbished as part of the IBA Hamburg and converted into a renewable power plant with large-scale heat storage. The energy storage facility has a volume of 2,000 cubic metres, which corresponds to 2,000,000 litres. It supplies the 120-hectare Reiherstieg district with climate-friendly heat and feeds renewable electricity into the Hamburg distribution grid.



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    TES-Energy-Facade for the Grüntenstraße in Augsburg

    gruentenstr_rehabilitated_east86163 Augsburg: Refurbishment of a six-storey rental apartment building from the 1960s with prefabricated timber frame elements (TES-Energy-Facade). Refurbishment in occupied condition. 60 apartments, usable floor space 6,300 m², architect: lattkearchitekten (Augsburg), built: 2012



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    Family hotel Weimar

    Family hotel street view (2012)99423 Weimar: New building with 11 holiday apartments, each with kitchen and balcony in sizes from 22 to 75 m², as well as a restaurant and roof garden. Solid wood construction, clay interior plaster, clay paints and block heating plant. Completion: 2012



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    Wooden eight-storey building "H8" in Bad Aibling

    H8_Building83043 Bad Aibling: The "H8" building is the first eight-story wooden high-rise in Germany. It was built in 2011 in the Upper Bavarian town of Bad Aibling. Together with the building E3 in Berlin, it is currently one of the tallest wooden buildings in Germany. 9 WEs and offices. Usable area: 803 m2, Architect: Architekturbüro Schankula. Client: B&O Wohnungswirtschaft, the building is located in a zero-energy quarter, completion: 2011



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    Assembly group On the terraces

    goettingen_terraces_th 37083 Göttingen: Building group "On the terraces". Planning: Baufrösche (Kassel)



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    Building society "e3

    10407 Berlin-Prenzlauer Berg: 8 flats, living space: 987 m², first 7-storey wooden building in Germany, architecture: Kaden Klingbeil Architekten, clients: e3 Bau GbR, built: 2008



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    Ecological settlement "Pelzerwiese 24" in Pelzerhaken

    23730 Pelzerhaken: 14 condominiums, boat moorings, a surfing and sailing school, a shop and a café have been built on the former navy grounds on the Bay of Lübeck. The centrepiece is the more than 70-year-old telecommunications tower, which was completely gutted and converted with its two side wings. Completion: 2007



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    New building of the Federal Environment Agency in Dessau

    Image 11106844 Dessau-Roßlau: New building of the Federal Environmental Agency. Planning: sauerbruch & hutton architects. Dessau has been the headquarters of the Federal Environment Agency since 2005. Around 900 of the approximately 1,500 employees work here in a modern office building constructed according to ecological standards. Awarded the German Seal of Approval for Sustainable Building in Gold in 2009. The seal of quality awarded by the Federal Ministry of Building and the German Sustainable Building Council honors exemplary new administrative and office buildings.



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    PVC-free residential complex in Norderstedt

    22844 Norderstedt16 flats as a demonstration project for PVC-free construction in social housing. Completion: ~2002



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    Building group Stadt & Frau Rieselfeld

    View_from_the_playground79111 Freiburg-Rieselfeld (Project No. 2): 67 apartments, 3 commercial units. Extensive consideration of gender aspects, barrier-free construction, common use of various rooms, spacious arcades. Mixing: in the first building mainly single mothers, in the second building young families and in the third building a mixed resident structure. Construction: 1996 - 2001



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    Hermannsdorfer Landwerkstätten (Kronsberg)

    30539 Hanover-Kronsberg: Sub-project "Hermannsdorfer Landwerkstätten", Expo model farm for sustainable agriculture and regional marketing methods. Completion: 2000



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    Hundertwasser House "Waldspirale

    CS-10-2006-NSE-100wasser-0664289 Darmstadt: Forest spiral, design by Friedensreich Hundertwasser. Model project for the use of recycled concrete.

    "Green roofs are the roof coverings of the future. [...] It will be hard to imagine that there was a time when roofs were dead - without life and without vegetation."
    Friedensreich Hundertwasser in: Stifter, Roland (1988): Roof gardens: green islands in the city. Stuttgart



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    Environmental and cultural station Uelzen

    Photo: Thomas Meier, www.radundfuss.net29525 Uelzen: According to the plans of the painter and architect Friedensreich Hundertwasser, the old brick building was redesigned into a colourful work of art during the EXPO 2000. Completion: 2000



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    Mont Cenis Academy in Herne

    Untitled-444649 Herne: This is not a housing estate, but the concept could equally be applied to housing. The Naturhuset apartment house by Bengt Warne in Stockholm was one of the first pioneering buildings to implement the house-in-house principle with a shell of glass. Also the Student dormitory ESA in Kaiserslautern is built like this. The project in Herne, however, is the most spectacular of its kind in this form.
    The building, designed in partnership by the German architectural firm HHS Planer & Architekten AG and the French architectural firm Jourda & Perraudin (Francoise Helene Jourda and Gilles Perraudin), is enclosed in a glass climate shell that creates a Mediterranean climate similar to that in Nice. This is on average 5 °C warmer than the outside temperature. Water features, earth channels and large gates prevent overheating in summer. The solar system in the roof, was the largest building-integrated system of its kind at the time. The supports inside are made of 56 spruce trunks. Completion: 1999



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    Board stack concrete composite model house Rieselfeld

    eble_passive_house_frbg_south_facade 79111 Freiburg-Rieselfeld (project no. 3): 24 dwelling units, board stack concrete composite system pilot project; Ing. Julius Natterer (Lausanne), Joachim Eble Architektur (Tübingen), social housing, completion: 1999



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    Gärtner Passive House

    79_62_Passive houses79100 Freiburg-Vauban (Project no. 2): Passive houses in timber construction.



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    Living and working

    79_63_Nullabw79100 Freiburg-Vauban (project no. 3): zero wastewater house, passive house standard, 20 WEs, energy saving concept, biogas CHP, solar power system, alternative sanitation concept, completion: 1999



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    SolarCampus, former "Solar-Fabrik" in Freiburg

    79111 Freiburg: Construction of Europe's first CO2-neutral administration and production building for solar modules of the company Solar-Fabrik AG. The company SolarFabrik went insolvent in 2015. Solar modules are still offered under the "Solar-Fabrik" brand today. The company is based in Wiesen (Bavaria). Today, the "M10 SolarCampus" in the building. Completion: 1999



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    Aachen - Vaalser Strasse

    52062 Aachen: Common living for young and old, 27 flats, completion: 1996



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    Group building project "Blue House

    blue-house-rieselfeld79111 Freiburg-Rieselfeld (Project No. 1): "Blaues Haus" architectural workshop Amman, Burdenski, Harter (Freiburg). First building group in the Rieselfeld district, 89 further building groups followed. Completion: 1996



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    Anders Wohnen eG Bremen

    28199 Bremen-Alte Neustadt: Architecture: Joachim Reinig (Hamburg), 23 flats, no parking spaces, common rooms, flexible floor plans, barrier-free development concept, wheelchair accessible flats on the ground floor, completion: 1995



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    Student residence Vaakerstrasse Kassel

    34127 Kassel: Two buildings with 4 room flatshares each in loam and low-energy construction, transparent thermal insulation, high proportion of own work. Completion: 1995



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    Model Project Integrated Living Kempten

    87435 Kempten: 64 units, nationwide model project of the Experimental Housing and Urban Development Programme of the Federal Government and the State of Bavaria, architecture: Gruppe 4+. Participation: Wohnbund. Common area, guest apartment, student apartments, day care, assisted living community with the aim of integrating elderly and disabled people and integrating and upgrading the entire urban quarter. Several awards, including the German Urban Development Prize. Completion: 1994



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    Plus energy house "Heliotrope

    heliotrope_freiburg79100 Freiburg: the house turns to the sun and produces more solar energy than it consumes on average over the year. The house of the architect Rolf Disch, a pioneer of solar architecture, is probably one of the first and best-known plus-energy houses in the world. The Heliotrope is one of the few residential buildings in Europe to have a building-integrated biaxial tracking PV system. Completion: 1994



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    Row house group "Jungerhalde

    78464 Constance-Jungerhalde: Architecture: Schaudt Architekten. Client: Wobak Konstanz. Skeleton construction. Completion: 1993. Award: German Building Award 1995



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    Villa Deconstructa

    79206 Breisach: Active and passive use of solar energy, use of recycled building materials. Client and architect: Thomas Spiegelhalter, completion 1993



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    Industrial yard "Arche

    1 General view60486 Frankfurt-Westbahnhof: "Arche", architects: Eble + Sambeth (Tübingen); developer: Karlsruher Versicherungen AG, socio-cultural centre, initiative house, commercial courtyard, bistro full-value café, natural air-conditioning system (greened glass house with water features), day-care centre, rainwater treatment for toilet flushing, etc.; precursor project of the Prisma commercial yard in Nuremberg. Until the end of 2012, the entire building was supplied with waste heat from the taz printing plant (via a gas heat pump).



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    Restaurant Naturata Überlingen

    Entrance area88662 Überlingen: Architecture: Imre Makovetch (Hungary), health food shop, wholefood restaurant and hotel, completion: 1992



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    Energy self-sufficient solar house

    2_View79114 FreiburgModel project of the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems (FhG ISE); the entire energy consumption of a single-family household is covered by the solar radiation reaching the building. Special features are a solar hydrogen gas stove and a fuel cell, as well as several other new developments. Completion: 1992



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    Youth centre Stuttgart-Stammheim

    70_stammheim70439 Stuttgart-Stammheim: Youth house in timber construction with planning participation of the young people. Architecture: Peter Hübner. Completion: 1991



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    "1st passive house" Darmstadt-Kranichstein

    Photo: Holger Wolpensinger64289 Darmstadt-Kranichstein: "Passive House", Passive House IWU (Inst. for Living and Environment) Darmstadt; Prof. Bott/ Ridder/ Westermeyer, exact north-south orientation. Completion: 1991



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    Tree houses by Frei Otto in Berlin-Tiergarten

    baumhaus_berlin10787 Berlin-Tiergarten: 26 WEs, tree houses by the architect Frei Otto (Stuttgart); built as part of the IBA 1987. The idea of the individual, stacked single-family house is implemented here in a variety of architectural forms. Completion: 1991



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    Youth Hostel Windberg Monastery

    94336 Windberg: 106 beds in 39 single, double and four-bed rooms, also 10 common rooms; wheelchair accessible. Solar architecture with TWD thermal insulation by Thomas Herzog. Completion: 1991



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    Hy-Solar building in Stuttgart

    70569 Stuttgart-Vaihingen: A hydrogen research institute that has been a listed building since 2019 Completion: 1987

    Links
    www.behnisch-partner.de/projects/civic-buildings/hysolar-institute
    https://stuttgartwege.blogspot.com/2019/06/hysolar-institut-der-universitat.html

     



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    ESA student dormitory Kaiserslautern

    267659 Kaiserslautern: ESA (Energy Saving Student Residence): planned and built with students, "house in a house" principle (based on Bengt Warn's "Naturhuset"), 20 rooms, a kitchen and other common rooms, varied planting of the winter garden, recycled building materials, solar system for hot water, each room also has a private terrace or seating area in the greenhouse.



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    Mound house "Ökostation" Freiburg

    79110 Freiburg-Seeparkgelände: Architecture: Möhrle (Freiburg), created as part of the State Garden Show; today used as a BUND centre for children and youth work (environmental education). Natural garden, solar systems, rainwater harvesting, mound wood construction. "Hogan" (Native American); ecological interior design (all-wood furniture, resource-saving household appliances, ...), completion: 1986



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    Hundertwasser House in Vienna

    © Photo: Thomas MeierAT - 1030 Vienna: it is the first house built according to the ideas and designs of the painter Friedensreich Hundertwasser. The house contains 50 apartments, four business premises and a doctor's practice. About 250 trees and bushes were planted on the 16 private and three communal roof terraces and on the roofs. Completion: 1986



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