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Model project "Berliner Strasse 88

14169 Berlin-Zehlendorf: "Social multi-storey housing": 171 WEs, rainwater concept, low-energy construction (1982!), low-temperature heating via return flow of the district heating network, completion: 1992

Building measure New building
Street Berlin Street 88
1992
Location Fallow land within a residential area in the district of Zehlendorf, surrounded by multi-storey residential buildings of different construction years.
Type  Residential complex with four-storey (in one case six-storey) row development, grouped into three U-shaped apartment blocks, additional day-care centre and community house
Residential units 171
Living space 15.373 m²
Residents approx. 500
Planning and realization Client: GSW, BWV and bbg
Architects: v.Halle, PPL, Nalbach, Schattauer + Tibes, IBUS (KiTa and 4 solar row houses)
Energy Planner: IBUS, IBP, ITW a.o.
Water concept: Engineering office Kraft
Form of ownership  2/3 rental apartments (partly cooperatives), 1/3 owner-occupied apartments

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Ecological measures Inner development; space-saving construction; environmentally friendly building materials; district heating
Special features Use of return flow; more consumption-dependent heating cost billing; heat and water meters for each apartment; water-saving sanitary facilities; rainwater collection: use for open spaces; waste collection sites; composting - one of the few ecologically oriented new construction projects in multi-storey housing;

First large-scale application of the Berlin guidelines for publicly funded social housing (WFB 90)

Literature
  • IEMB (2005): Energy-efficient planning and building in Berlin (S.12/13)
  • BfLR - Bundesforschungsanstalt für Landeskunde und Raumordnung - (ed.): ExWoSt-Information on the research field "Urban qualities in new housing construction" No. 2. Berlin, 1992
  • Greiff, Rainer; Kröning, Wolfgang; Werner, Peter: Research paper ecological rental housing. Evaluation of existing experiences of ecological building for rental housing. Interim report. Institute Housing and Environment. Darmstadt, 1991
  • Greiff, Rainer; Werner, Peter (eds.): Ökologischer Mietwohnungsbau - Konzepte für eine umweltverträgliche Baupraxis. Karlsruhe, 1991


Last Updated: December 25, 2020

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