8:21 min - posted on 2019-09-18
"With their jointly planned residential development, the two Viennese architecture firms Berger+Parkkinen and querkraft have dared to reinterpret the urban block: despite the high density, the broken-up comb structure allows for a small-scale development with varied open spaces."
Read the article by Julia Liese from 19.08.2016 on
DETAIL.de
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Wood construction, News Blog Europe (without DE), News Blog Austria, Quarters, Settlements
Some cities subsidise the use of certified insulation materials with a bonus to support resource conservation, carbon storage and particularly environmentally friendly products. This also includes many insulation materials made from renewable raw materials.
In the Overview the cities are listed that grant an extra subsidy for certified natural insulation materials:
| Düsseldorf | 10 - 25 EUR/m² |
| Hamburg | 10 EUR/m² |
| Hanover | 5 EUR/m² |
| Munster |
10 EUR/m² |
| Munich | 0,30 EUR/kg |
The overview does not claim to be complete; no funding entitlement can be derived from it.
Insulation materials made from renewable raw materials with natureplus certification can be found here: www.natureplus-database.org/produkte.php
Source:
News from the Agency of Renewable Resources (FNR) 2017-14
Files: Overview_Daemstoff-Foerderung.pdf
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DE-News, Funding, NaWaRohs, News Blog Bavaria, News Blog Hamburg, News Blog NRW, News Blog Lower Saxony, Environmental policy, Thermal insulation
10/2013: Europe's largest wooden house with straw insulation in Verden
The largest straw-insulated and directly plastered wooden house in Europe is being built in Verden from the oldest building materials known to man. The twenty-metre high natural building contains 38 tonnes of straw, 100 tonnes of clay and 200 tonnes of softwood.
www.weser-kurier.de/...artikel...
10/2013: Films "City of the Future" and "How does the city get fed?"
The following two recommendable films can be seen in the Arte Mediathek until 15.10.2013: "City of the Future" (45 min; first broadcast: 10/2013):
www.arte.tv/guide/de/047869-000/stadt-der-zukunft-zukunft-der-stadt
"How does the city get fed?" (53 min.; first broadcast: 10/2013):
www.arte.tv/guide/de/047870-000/wie-wird-die-stadt-satt
The films are also available from FechnerMedia:
DVD "City of the Future - Future of the City
http://shop.fechnermedia.com/katalog/filme/stadt-der-zukunft-zukunft-der-stadt
DVD "How to feed the city - The struggle for the food markets of the future".
http://shop.fechnermedia.com/katalog/filme/wie-wird-die-stadt-satt
9/2013: IBA Berlin 2020 Preliminary Studies
the downloads of the IBA Berlin 2020 preliminary studies are available here:
www.stadtentwicklung.berlin.de/.../iba/de/studien.shtml
8/2013: DIN standards on earthen building come into force
Since August 2013, binding standards for earthen construction have come into force in Germany for the first time since 1971. They apply to clay blocks, clay masonry and clay plaster mortars. This means that earth as a building material has finally arrived in contemporary construction. For non-standardised and on-site produced earthen building materials, the earthen building rules first published in 1998 continue to apply. With the current revision of the interior plaster application standard DIN 18550-2, the course has been set towards Europe-wide recognition of the material.
www.claytec.de/...din-normen-lehm-2013.html
6/2013: New timber construction magazine
"We want to show you wood" says the editorial team of lignardo, the first German architecture magazine dedicated exclusively to wood as a building material. lignardo is in intensive exchange with renowned architects and industry experts: Prof. Herrmann Kaufmann, Prof. Ludger Dederich, Prof. Uwe Germerott, architect Frank Lattke and architect Florian Lichtblau support an experienced editorial team that has been active in the timber construction industry for many years. This is how the print premiere "Award-winning timber buildings" came into being at the beginning of June. With six printed issues per year, lignardo will in future concentrate monothematically on one building task each, because timber construction will play a very special role in this century.
www.lignardo.de
5/2013: Polystyrene thermal insulation - The madness continues: The consequences of insulating with polystyrene can be devastating: for the living climate and also in case of fire. Who benefits from the constantly tightened energy-saving regulations?
Styrofoam as a façade insulation material is often the material of choice when houses are to be thermally insulated. But this can have devastating consequences: for the indoor climate and also in case of fire. Already at the end of 2011, NDR dealt with the topic of thermal insulation and pointed out risks and problems. Above all, the fire test with the insulating material polystyrene caused a sensation throughout Germany. In the second part, in which further in-depth research was carried out, the question still arises: Who really benefits from constantly tightened energy-saving regulations and the boom in thermal insulation composite systems fuelled by them: the residents, the environment or the lobby?
Here is the film from the end of 2012: www.ndr.de/...minuten667
and supplementary NDR information: www.ndr.de/...waermedaemmung
4/2013: No health risks from electrosmog from photovoltaic systems:
www.wilabonn.de/...elektromagnetische-strahlung-durch-pv
3/2013: Model buildings searched for on gutebaustoffe.de:
www.gutebaustoffe.de/modellbauwerke.html
Largest Sustainable Settlement in Europe there are with 2,900 flats on an area of 170 ha in Holland: Stad van de Zon (City of the Sun) Heerhugowaard
www.heerhugowaardstadvandezon.nl
First German PlusEnergy School near Augsburg
http://informationsdienst-holz.de/…plusenergy school
Largest plus-energy building with 78 rental flats of the municipal housing association ABG in Frankfurt
Photovoltaic systems are planned on the slightly sloping roof, on the windows and on the façade of the building. At the same time, heat is recovered from the waste water. All of this is enough to achieve a surplus of around ten percent after consumption in the entire house, says Junker. This surplus can be used for the electric car, for example. The ABG, which cooperates with the car-sharing provider Book 'n Drive, will provide five cars and an electricity charging station on the ground floor of the building, which does not have a basement. Unused electricity from the car can also be fed back into the storage system. It is "energy-autarkic", meaning it could completely disconnect from the general electricity grid.
www.fr-online.de/frankfurt/wohnungsbau-frankfurt-energie-im-ueberfluss,1472798,20352740.html
2/2013: Photovoltaics statistics updated: 32.4 GW connected to the grid in Germany
Whereas in 2000 there were just 400 megawatts of PV capacity installed in Germany, today there are 32,389 megawatts or around 32.4 gigawatts.
www.solarserver.de/...photovoltaik-statistik.html
Photovoltaics annual review 2012: Multi-layered markets in upheaval
As expected, 2012 was a difficult year for the global photovoltaic industry. Production capacities were consistently too high, and this caused price collapses along the value chain, negative margins and losses for photovoltaic manufacturers. Despite these difficulties, the global photovoltaic market grew by 10-17 % in 2012 to around 31-33 GW, even established markets like Germany continued to grow. The latest figures from the German Ministry of the Environment show that the photovoltaic market in Germany reached a volume of 7.6 GW by the end of the year, despite the cut in the solar power feed-in tariff. This is again a World record for annual installed PV capacity. The Chinese photovoltaic market probably doubled again in 2012. Final figures are not yet available, but if the estimate by IMS Research from last October is correct, China would be the second largest PV market in the world with 5 GW. The installed capacity includes not only the plants that have been approved for feed-in tariffs, but also those from the "Golden Sun" programme with a total of 1.7 GW.
www.solarserver.de/...photovoltaik-jahresrueckblick-2012
Terra Preta - The new grassroots revolution
Save the climate and defeat world hunger with kitchen waste, vegetable charcoal and earthworms? Science believes it has found the recipe: Terra Preta do Indio, the "black gold". Ute Scheub, Haiko Pieplow and Hans-Peter Schmidt have written in "Terra Preta. The Black Revolution from the Rainforest", Ute Scheub and Haiko Pieplow have compiled the knowledge about the most fertile soil in the world. "Black soil - produced by farmers and smallholders, hobby gardeners and slum dwellers - can trigger a literal grassroots revolution," says Scheub.
www.oekom.de/nc/buecher/buechersuche/buch/terra-preta-die-schwarze-revolution-aus-dem-regenwald.html
1/2013: New DBU brochure on resource-efficient building and living
www.dbu.de/...
Rolf Disch builds Plusenergiesiedlung in Grenzach near Basel with 74 flats
www.rolfdisch.de/...
Brave New World: Megacities in China
www.zeit.de/...density-2
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DE-News
A central park with a lake in the centre, diversity in architecture and in the use of buildings, energy production directly in the neighbourhood, a ring road, large neighbourhood garages, the public space free of parking spaces - these are just a few aspects of the dynamic master plan for the Patrick Henry Village (PHV). Heidelberg's largest conversion area will develop into the 16th district in the coming years. Representatives of the city and the International Building Exhibition (IBA) Heidelberg presented the plan at a press conference on the almost 100-hectare site. Online public participation will run from Monday, 9 December 2019 to Wednesday, 15 January 2020. From Wednesday, 11 December 2019, the master plan will also be discussed in the municipal council.
"We see Patrick-Henry-Village as a mixed-use district - a sustainable, modern and urban place to live and work in every respect. Patrick-Henry-Village should show how we transfer the old ideal image of the European city into the 21st century. We want short distances in the neighbourhood, a forward-looking and climate-friendly energy and transport concept as well as attractive and green open spaces," explains First Mayor Jürgen Odszuck. For Conversion Mayor Hans-Jürgen Heiß the dynamic master plan is a good basis for this: "The plan leaves us enough flexibility to be able to react situationally in the coming years of development. The scale alone of almost 100 hectares is unique for Heidelberg - many challenges and enormous opportunities await us," says Heiß.
The IBA Heidelberg helped shape the planning process from the very beginning. Executive Director Prof. Michael Braum highlights the city's courage in taking on the quality offensive of an International Building Exhibition in PHV: "IBAs are an urban planning excellence format - their projects go far beyond the usual standards. Meeting this high quality standard for an entire city district is a complex and demanding task. We look forward to continuing to accompany the city of Heidelberg in this endeavour."
Uses: The district is to become a place of residence for about 10,000 people and a place of work for about 5,000. In principle, there will also be a mix of uses. The main residential areas are in the centre, in the north and on the western edge of the district. There will be offers for all population groups in all stages of life, with a focus on young, urban-oriented families. In the east - towards the 5 motorway - the focus is on different workplaces ranging from the sciences to craft businesses and urban manufactories, including digitalised logistics, as well as start-ups. Patrick Henry Village will also provide innovative forms for collaborative working. In the south of the area, the focus will be on education, sports, culture and creative industries. In the heart of the area, an open and experimental neighbourhood centre is planned - several more such "innovation anchors" are to be established in the area.
Architecture: New and existing buildings are to be mixed in the new district. For example, the former officers' villas in the north of the area and some of the characteristic terraced buildings in the centre are to be preserved. The new buildings will be designed in a variety of shapes. The mixing of the district is to find visual expression in a diverse architecture. Experiments are to be initiated that deal with cost-effective, energy-efficient and space-saving building and living.
Energy: The energy concept of the new district wants to learn from the experiences of Bahnstadt and take into account the fight against climate change. Accordingly, the energy required is to be produced as far as possible within the district in decentralised structures - for example via solar collectors. At the same time, energy consumption is to be kept as low as possible at all levels, whereby at the building level, production ("grey energy") and operation over a period of 50 years are also to be taken into account in the balancing.
Traffic: The new district will be a model project of the transport turnaround, where sustainable mobility is lived. From the first development measure onwards, environmentally friendly mobility will be ensured. In addition to an ambitious regional integration of PHV into the environmental network, the focus within PHV is on promoting mobility behaviour on foot, by bicycle and by local public transport. The central access axis in the district will be a ring road that connects the different neighbourhoods and open spaces and creates a city of short distances. The street system is planned without parking spaces. All plots are accessible by car, but parking will be in the separately accessible neighbourhood garages at the entrances to the district. As in the neighbourhood garages, sustainable mobility services such as rental bicycles, cargo bikes, etc. will also be available at the neighbourhood level in individual mobility stations.
Open spaces: A productive urban landscape is envisaged for PHV. Near-natural open spaces serve not only nature conservation or play and leisure uses, but also especially productive aspects such as food and energy production and water management. Essential spatial components of the open space concept are:
- The "Green Heart" is a ribbon that runs through the centre of the neighbourhood. At its centre is a park with a lake to the south of the former officers' mess, which opens up to the new centre of the PHV.
- The "green fingers" form a diverse network of open spaces consisting of gardens, near-natural areas, playgrounds and communal areas, and at the same time provide the necessary fresh air corridors in the east-west direction as well as biotope and path networks in the landscape.
- An edge to the west represents the transition to the adjacent agricultural landscape. The area includes local recreation, private gardens, nature conservation and various types of food production.
Digital services: The opportunities of digitalisation should be considered from the very beginning of the development process. Of course, complex requirements with regard to data protection and data self-determination must be taken into account. In principle, digitisation is not only about continuous broadband coverage of the area. In the future, PHV will offer a wide range of services on topics such as media/energy supply, mobility/neighbourhood garages and social coexistence (sharing). The services are to be bundled in a joint operator/quarter company and provided primarily via digital channels. For this purpose, there should also be a contact point in the neighbourhood right from the start.
Source: PM from 5.12.2019 of the IBA Heidelberg
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Stock, Bike-/Velo-City, DE-News, IBA, Barracks conversion, News Blog Baden-Württemberg, Mix of uses, Quarters
