5:15 min, published 7/21/2017
Project Info: http://sdg21.eu/db/wohnen-am-dantebad
The exhibition marking the halfway point of the IBA Heidelberg has opened: A rich accompanying programme attracted almost 1000 visitors from Thursday to Saturday, many of whom were visiting the exhibition venue, the Mark Twain Center in Heidelberg's Südstadt, for the first time.
The IBA SUMMIT, the biennial meeting of mayors, university rectors and urban planners from international "Knowledge Pearls" in Heidelberg, heralded the opening days of the IBA interim presentation on 26 April. Prof. Dr Eckart Würzner, Lord Mayor of the City of Heidelberg welcomed the guests from Stanford, Cambridge, Lund and Leuven with an introduction to the IBA: "The IBA Heidelberg is on an excellent path. It demonstrates how various strengths of our city can be interwoven. These include, for example, promoting education, developing environmentally friendly mobility, creating new living space and promoting climate-neutral urban development. The IBA has made a significant contribution to the sense of a new beginning in Heidelberg.
The vernissage of the exhibition took place at the Mark Twain Center on the evening of 27 April. Gunther Adler, State Secretary for Building, Housing and Urban Development in the Federal Ministry of the Interior spoke on the occasion about the "IBA" format from the federal government's point of view. According to Adler, the IBA is an important piece of German building culture that enjoys international renown and is worth every effort to pursue its claim to excellence. The IBA tradition encompasses many aspects: International relevance, next-practice projects, sustainable impact on the region and building culture standards. For the IBAs currently underway, it is sometimes difficult to fully meet these claims to excellence under the given framework conditions. "Nevertheless, we are seeing overwhelming results, which encourage us as a federal government to continue the quality offensive together - also within the framework of the IBA Heidelberg," the State Secretary emphasised. "We need the IBA to show us how we can find answers to relevant questions of current urban development using new and unusual methods and means - this is more urgent today than ever. The IBA's courage to experiment and to go beyond existing boundaries is important to address the quality of living, working and living in our cities in the future."
Jürgen Odszuck, First Mayor of the City of HeidelbergThe IBA's interim presentation provides an excellent overview of what it is doing in Heidelberg: it gives important new impulses on how we can further develop Heidelberg as the knowledge city of tomorrow. It promotes excellent building projects in our city. And it offers innovative approaches on how we can design processes more effectively and lead to even better results."
Michael Braum, Managing Director of the IBA Heidelberg, was pleased about the great response to the exhibition opening and welcomed the guests: "Innovation in the knowledge society uses its intellectual and creative resources. This changes the value system of the industrial society, in which diligence stood above creativity. Today, in the knowledge society, creativity may be more important than diligence. This also has implications for the city. Our cities will change more dynamically in the 21st century than they did in the course of industrialisation. This requires a new way of thinking in urban planning and architecture. The IBA would like to make a contribution to this, which can now be seen in this exhibition."
Carl Zillich, Curatorial Director of the IBA Heidelbergexplained the exhibition concept: "Before we present realised building projects for the knowledge city of tomorrow in 2022, we have focused at the halfway point on the actors, processes and ideas of the first five years. Together with the exhibition makers from 'Stiftung Freizeit', we have developed analogue and at the same time interactive forms of presentation. Thus, for different interests, individual glimpses behind the scenes of the IBA, the urban development of international science cities, but also Heidelberg institutions and initiatives are on offer. Numerous architectural models, pictures and plans have already aroused curiosity about the construction sites, which are now marked all over the city."
The opening days closed on Saturday, 28 April with a colourful programme, during which many young families in particular got an impression of the exhibition and the IBA projects.
The exhibition of the IBA interim presentation is now open until 8 July daily from Tuesdays to Sundays from 15.00 - 20.00, including public holidays.
More information about the exhibition, guided tours, registration or booking of individual group tours at:
www.iba.heidelberg.de
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News Blog Baden-Württemberg
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
In an interview with PV Magazine, Xavier Daval, President of the French solar association Ser-Soler, said the EU desperately needs a major European photovoltaic manufacturer. A complete exodus of the domestic solar industry to China and the US, he said, would drive Europe into energy dependency for decades to come. "We are not talking about a small task here. We are talking about the challenge of this century. When module manufacturing moved to China, the Germans thought they would continue to sell manufacturing equipment to Chinese solar producers. But now they have to look at equipping factories in China with locally made production lines. In the long run, this was a wrong decision. What the Europeans have to do now is to correct this situation. In the automotive industry, there are big players in Europe, China and the US. The same must now happen in the European solar industry. If we don't, we will be dependent on products from other regional markets in the future. For a century we have been dependent on oil from outside Europe. We must not allow a continuation of this dependency also in renewable energies and their technologies," says Daval.
Source: DGS Newsletter of 26.05.17
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Stakeholders, Renewable, Sustainable management, PV, Environmental policy, Ecology
It is estimated that the care and integration of refugees will cost 20 billion euros in 2016. In the programme Frontal21 from 24.5.2016 (from (minute 25 to 33) figures are given on how some providers of refugee accommodation charge horrendous prices. According to their research, the costs of accommodation per refugee range from 87 to 1,100 euros per month, in the extreme case of Velbert (near Wuppertal) even 1,500 euros per refugee per month.
In the contribution of the Time from 23.05.2016 costs for refugee accommodation are mentioned for various locations in Hamburg. These range from 10 to 38 euros per person per day, which corresponds to around 300 to 1,140 euros per person per month. It is interesting to note that small locations are not necessarily more expensive than large ones.
The topic of the construction costs of refugee accommodation is taken up by the German contribution to the 15th International Architecture Biennale 2016, which can be found on the website www.makingheimat.de can be seen. There are 54 different refugee buildings in the database comparing the net costs. The range of net costs is between 1,000 and 2,300 euros per m² GFA (cost group 300 - 400).
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DE-News, Refugee shelters, News Blog Hamburg
