84-metre-high building in Vienna's new "Seestadt Aspern" district After around two years of development, the groundbreaking ceremony for the lighthouse HoHo project in Vienna has now taken place. By 2018, around 20,000 square metres of rental space will be created on 24 levels in a timber hybrid construction.
Kategorie für Blog: Typology
"Vienna has never squandered its stock of apartments, that's why a quarter of all apartments now belong to the city. That sounds good, but it also has disadvantages." Read the whole report in the Süddeutsche from 13.11.2016
NRW.BANK's new promotion loan is aimed at all condominium associations (WEGs) in North Rhine-Westphalia that want to modernise or refurbish the housing they mainly use themselves, have no commercial landlords as members and consist of at least five owners. Smaller WEGs can make use of the NRW.BANK.Gebäudesanierung promotion programme.
In October, the Habitat III Conference took place in Quito. The "New Urban Agenda" was adopted there. It is intended to help the world community to shape the global urbanisation process in a sustainable way. Why is there so little discussion about this in Germany?
While striving to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, the City of Rotterdam in the Netherlands focuses its narrative on making buildings, industry and transport cleaner and more efficient, which are concrete and tangible issues that the public can easily rally behind.
In this article, Susanne Jacob-Freitag presents the tallest and largest timber buildings in the world, as well as the unique selling point of timber buildings in urban areas and their cost advantages.
In Zurich on 30 November 2008, a 76 per cent majority voted in favour of reducing energy consumption to 2000 watts per capita by 2050. The average value in Switzerland is currently 6000 watts. The 2000-watt society has since been enshrined in the municipal code. "Particularly is before [...]
A film by French philosopher Philippe Simay on arte.tv In this episode, the philosopher visits the region of Vorarlberg in Austria, the international model for ecological and sustainable architecture.
At the end of the UN conference Habitat III in Quito (Ecuador), the environmental and development organization Germanwatch draws a mixed balance. "Around 50,000 people took part in the conference. This alone shows that cities are considered to be of great importance on the way to a sustainable world.
In the run-up to the UN World Summit on Human Settlements Habitat III, the German Advisory Council on Global Change (WBGU) points to the major challenges of increasing urbanization. In its report "Moving Humanity: The Transformative Power of Cities", the WBGU stresses that a brief window of opportunity is opening up in the next decades of urbanization "to [...]
The member states of the United Nations want to agree on a new urban agenda at the Habitat III conference in Quito. This "New Urban Agenda" is to serve as a political guideline for urban development over the next two decades. Together with Friedrich Kitschelt, State Secretary at the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development, Federal Minister of Transport, Building and Urban Affairs Barbara Hendricks will take part in the official opening [...]
"BISKO" is neither a sausage nor a new chocolate bar, but the new "Municipal Accounting Standard". After four years of development, a methodology paper is now available that provides clear accounting rules for energy and greenhouse gas balances for municipalities in Germany. In a lengthy consultation process, coordinated and technically led by ifeu Heidelberg, [...]
Since 2012, the DGNB certification system has provided local authorities with a tool that helps them to optimise neighbourhoods from a sustainability perspective and to document this through an award. For this system, the DGNB has now specifically further developed the criteria catalogue and significantly reduced the scope through adjustments. This would [...]
In the Netherlands, a village is being built that will be completely self-sufficient - from electricity production to food supply. The Utopia website shows what it will look like: Utopia.com
"With their jointly planned residential building, the two Viennese architectural firms "Berger+Parkkinen" and "querkraft" have ventured a new interpretation of the urban block: despite high density, the broken-up ridge structure allows for small-scale development with varied open spaces." Read the article by Julia Liese from 19.08.2016 on DETAIL.de
Many thanks to Mr Pohlmeyer for the current photos of the small "cube settlement" planned by Peter Hübner (plus+, Neckartenzlingen). To the photo gallery 9/2016
55 new projects have been added to the web directory in autumn 2016. The sortable table provides an overview:
The renovation project "Efficiency House Plus in Old Buildings" shows how two dilapidated rows of houses from the 1930s can be brought up to plus energy levels - and in some cases that good architecture can be created in the process. Read more on the DETAIL website
"Every year, 1.2 million people die in road accidents worldwide. This makes car accidents the ninth most common cause of death overall."
Over the past three years, the City of Munich has purchased 950 apartments from GBW's former holdings through its subsidiaries GWG and Gewofag. This is revealed in the answer to a question by City Council members Cetin Oraner and Brigitte Wolf (Die Linke).
Whether it's financial incentives for moving to smaller apartments, mandatory bicycle parking spaces or public tenders that are based on social and environmental criteria - there are a variety of ways to reduce the consumption of space, energy and materials in municipalities. This is shown by a study of the Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment and Energy [...].
STADTraum54 - Schöner Wohnen für alle The new cooperative for Cologne that reinvents the neighbourhood - A participatory event Schöner Wohnen für alle - the rooftop cooperative initiative STADTraum54 is initiating the largest new cooperative project in Cologne - and you are helping to plan it? The initiators of STADTraum54 put their concept up for debate. Join in [...]
With every new building, soil is sealed and land for nature is thus consumed. Now the German government wants to more than halve land consumption in the next few years. Nicola Brockmüller explains that this is also a good way to cool the earth's climate and prevent flooding [...]
What makes a sustainable university? Sustainability Council and 50 university administrations, employees and students are developing a sustainability code for universities. The test phase of the beta version of the university code will start in autumn. In autumn 2014, the German Council for Sustainable Development (RNE) held a stakeholder conference on the topic "From Pilot to Standard: Sustainability in Research, Teaching [...]
The Federal Institute for Research on Building, Urban Affairs and Spatial Development (BBSR) is looking for municipalities that enable new solutions for climate-, environmentally- and socially-compatible mobility in their urban districts, as well as a pleasant stay in public spaces. This includes, above all, the development and optimisation of infrastructure for walking and cycling, the linking of different mobility offers, [...]
Recycling companies are not getting rid of their goods because they might be polluted. About conflicts between resource and environmental protection. Source: taz article from 15. 7. 2016
Since 1 August, the internet portal for sustainable settlements and neighbourhoods has been offered under the domain www.siedlungen.eu and as a WordPress version with extended functions.
The renovation project "Efficiency House Plus in Old Buildings" shows how two ramshackle rows of houses from the 1930s can be brought up to plus energy levels - and in some cases that good architecture can be created in the process. Location: Pfuhler Strasse 4-8 and 10-14, D-89231 Neu-Ulm Architects: Werner Sobek Stuttgart and o5 architekten bda - raab hafke lang Client: NUWOG [...]
"With all kinds of regulations, cities want to ensure sufficient and cheap parking spaces. But economically this is nonsense. It is higher earners who are subsidised. Parking thus becomes a question of justice."
A broad alliance of chambers, the housing industry, trade unions, environmental and nature conservation associations as well as consumer and social associations joined forces in June 2016 to form a "NRW Building Alliance for Climate Protection". The aim of the alliance is to promote climate protection in the areas of housing and construction and to introduce jointly developed priorities into the political arena. The [...]
Accessible as an interactive world map, the "New World Atlas of Artificial Sky Brighness" is now publicly available, marking the first global measurement of light pollution since 2001. Further information: New atlas of light pollution: a third of humanity can no longer see the Milky Way | WIRED Germany
The planning practice and planning culture of German cities are the focus of a comprehensive handout produced with the cooperation of the German Association of Cities and Towns and the Federal Institute for Research on Building, Urban Affairs and Spatial Development. The brochure brings together 55 projects from 34 cities that show how multifaceted municipal planning practice is implemented in Germany. The documentation of successful [...]
The German Habitat Forum ended today with the "Berlin Recommendations". Thomas Silberhorn, Parliamentary State Secretary of the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) and Gunther Adler, State Secretary of the German Federal Ministry for the Environment, handed over the recommendations to the Secretary General of the Habitat III Conference, Joan Clos. The "Berlin Recommendations" are intended as a contribution to the new [...]
Project outlines, especially for public buildings, municipal properties and urban districts, can be submitted until 29 July as part of the new funding initiative "Solar Building & Energy Efficient City".
In the interview Migration and Urban Planning: "Wir können Einwanderung" in the taz of 14.6.2016, which is well worth reading, Leggewie refers to the urban Chilean designer Alejandro Aravena, who builds half a house for a few thousand US dollars so that the other half can be designed by the residents themselves. Aravena has most recently won the Pritzker Prize, the Nobel Prize [...]
Roof extensions offer enormous housing potential A great opportunity for more housing in Germany lies on the roofs: More than 1.5 million additional flats could be created by adding storeys to roofs. And this could happen in places where living space is already scarce and housing is expensive: in large cities, conurbations and university towns.