Largest passive house development in Europe in Vienna
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The largest passive house development in Europe is currently being built on Mühlenweg in Vienna. The total area of the site Aspanggründe "Eurogate covers approx. 22 hectares. Six different architectural firms are planning a total of 740 flats. When completed, around 7,000 jobs will be created there. By the end of 2008, around 25% of the planned social housing in Vienna will probably be built to passive house standards." oekonews.at
Conceptual procedures are increasingly establishing themselves as a further instrument of municipal land policy for locations with development potential. Here, the property is not allocated according to the highest price, but according to the concept that promises the most sustainable approaches to the further development of the neighbourhood. In this way, the procedures offer municipalities approaches to solving two current and urgent problems: the need for high-quality urban development and affordable housing.
The publication on the General Departmental Research project "Baukultur für das Quartier. Process culture through concept awarding" examined the question of the extent to which building culture in the neighbourhood can be influenced and improved through concept procedures in a broader sense. On the basis of eleven best-practice examples, the spectrum of concept awarding as part of municipal real estate policy was examined: Which procedures are suitable for achieving building culture objectives? Which framework conditions were successful? Which variants and approaches are available? As a result, recommendations for action have emerged that show how concept procedures can lead to a high level of building culture quality, for example through low entry thresholds, appraisal by an expert committee and quality assurance. The publication offers the first nationwide overview of this procedure, which is still largely unused, and provides important information on how building culture, affordable housing and qualitative urban development can go hand in hand.
Lecture by Richard Sennett and Saskia Sassen on 9 June 2016 at the Oskar von Miller Forum (International Meeting Centre of the Bavarian Construction Industry) in Munich.
From the press release of the lecture announcement: "Richard Sennett and Saskia Sassen examine the way in which modern society is evolving - to use the words of the Swiss historian Jacob Burckhardt - towards a state of "brutal simplicity" in which clear distinctions are made between winners and losers, religious beliefs, natives and strangers. Contrast this with the idea of the "open city," which promotes an opening up of the city in terms of a complex interplay of politics, social life, and culture."
7:32 min., 2012, Trailer for the documentary about Frei Otto's eco-house in Berlin Tiergarten.
The documentary "Dreaming of a Treehouse" addresses the Ökohaus, an experimental collective housing project in Berlin,
conceived by the famous German architect/engineer Frei Otto.
Interviews with Frei Otto, Christine Kanstinger-Otto, Hermann Kendel, co-architects, planners as well as inhabitants and participatory builders. Commentary by architects Yona Friedman, Anne Lacaton and Jean-Philippe Vassal.
The whole film can be watched as streaming video in HD quality for a rental fee:
Duration: 1 hour 6 minutes
2011, German, French with English subtitles
Following China and the USA, India now also wants to approve the Paris Climate Agreement. Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced the date as 2 October. It is the birthday of Mahatma Gandhi. India is the world's third largest producer of greenhouse gases.
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