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"Neue Höfe Dürwiß"

logo-neue-hoefe-duerwiss52249 Eschweiler-Dürwiß:  Model settlement for resource-efficient construction. 60 plots on 3.7 ha of open space. The city of Eschweiler, together with RWE Power AG and the Aachen-based Kathy Beys Foundation, developed a resource-efficient residential area. Single-family and multi-family houses, multi-generational houses, residential courtyards, etc. are to be built with a wide range of living space for families, residential communities, individualists, senior citizens and many more. Completion: 2018
The consumption of resources is to be reduced significantly, but at least by a factor of 2, in the urban development, the development of the area and the construction.

Addr.: Sebastianusstrasse

Video portrait (2019) of the Factor X settlement; BMU Climate Protection Prize


(6:25 min.) published on Nov 5, 2019

The city of Eschweiler (North Rhine-Westphalia) has been awarded the climate protection prize "Klimaaktive Kommune 2019″ by the Federal Environment Ministry in category 1: "Resource and energy efficiency in the municipality". The city of Eschweiler is committed to more resource and climate protection with its Factor X construction areas.

The prize is awarded by the Federal Environment Ministry (BMU) as part of the National Climate Initiative (NKI), which is implemented by the German Institute of Urban Affairs gGmbh (Difu).



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Awards
NRW.BANK.Ideas Competition for Municipalities 2019-2020, 3rd place

Links
www.neue-hoefe-duerwiss.de

Brochure "The Factor X Settlement
www.neue-hoefe-duerwiss.de/images/Broschuere_Faktor-X_Siedlung-Eschweiler-Duerwiss-2012.pdf

Project website at the foundation (cooperation project within the initiative
"Factor X - Resource Efficient Building in the Indeland":
www.aachener-zeitung.de/...innovative-siedlungen...

Documentation of the urban planning competition Faktor X Siedlung Eschweiler-Dürwiß (the competition was carried out by the office Post-Welters, Dortmund, supervised)

An interesting approach is the design of an "Allmende Quartier" (2nd place in the urban planning competition): http://team51-5.ecloudserv.net/almende-quarter

Factor X- Agency, Inden
www.faktor-x.info

 



Last Updated: December 3, 2020

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All project/s of the planning office: ; City region: Aachen and surrounding area; Country: Germany; Characteristics: 01 - 02 Floors, Semi-detached house, Single-family house; typology: Settlement; Thematic: Factor X Settlement, Resource-efficient construction

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