NL - Culemborg: With 240 houses, it is the largest permaculture settlement in Europe and worldwide. It was built with the aim of living there in the most environmentally friendly and self-managed way possible. The founder Marleen Kaptein was convinced from the beginning that people should have the opportunity to shape their environment and take responsibility. Completion: 2009
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10963 Berlin-Kreuzberg: "International Building Exhibition", 106 units, completed in 1987 / optimisation and redesign in 2006, grey water recycling plant for 250 tenants, saving 3 million litres of fresh water per year.
21109 Hamburg-Wilhelmsburg: The International Building Exhibition IBA Hamburg is one of the largest urban development projects in Europe. To date, 70 projects have been realised as part of IBA Hamburg. In 2013, IBA Hamburg had a total of 1,733 apartments under construction or completed, 516 of which were modernizations. Added to this are over 100,000 square metres of commercial space, eight educational facilities, two senior citizens' residential homes, three daycare centres, four sports facilities, a commercial courtyard, a centre for artists and creative people, the extension of the Aßmann Canal and over 70 hectares of green space.
22045 Hamburg-JenfeldHAMBURG WATER Cycle®, an urban quarter with 835 residential units, 630 of them in new buildings, and commercial space for around 2000 residents is being built on 35 ha of the former Lettow-Vorbeck barracks. Project costs: approx. 250 million euros. The most far-reaching project of a decentralised water supply and disposal system currently in Europe: vacuum toilets, biogas production and waste water separation (HAMBURG WATER Cycle®). The biogas produced will be used to generate heat and electricity for the new district in a climate-neutral manner in the district's own combined heat and power plant. The project will thus enable climate-neutral living and sustainable drainage.
23554 Lübeck: Sewage-free model settlement; expoproject, 111 dwelling units. Completion 1st BA: 2000; 5th and last BA: 2015
34123 Kassel-Unterneustadt: Re-foundation of the Unterneustadt district. High building density with GFZ 2.0. Size: 29 buildings with a total of 87 WEs. Of which 73 are publicly subsidised and 65 WEs with a parking space number of 0.1 PkWs/WE. Completion: 2001
31595 Steyerberg: the Lebensgarten Steyerberg e. V. is a settlement community with 62 terraced houses, which was founded in 1984 and which is characterized by the spiritual Findhorn Community in Scotland. The settlement community is united by the desire to live in harmony with each other and with the surrounding nature. Not far from Hanover, it was an Expo 2000 project.
44532 Lünen-Brambauer: a project of the IBA Emscher Park, architect: Peter Hübner, 30 dwelling units, occupation 1998
D - 59073 HammEco-commercial park / Eco-centre NRW. Redevelopment of 50 ha of former industrial wasteland, including (eco) Obi DIY store, timber house manufacturer, training centre and start-up centre by HSS Planer und Architekten (Kassel), exhibition hall, etc.
59192 Bergkamen: 27 units, "Women planning and building for women" Ebertstr. An IBA Emscher Park project
54296 Trier: Total area approx. 70 ha, residential area: approx. 25 ha, Science Park and University of Trier mainly in the area of the former barracks: approx. 23 ha, green and open spaces: approx. 20 ha. Private investment in residential construction approx. 200 million euros and approx. 150 million euros in commercial construction. Approx. 850 residential units*, completion: 2015
70191 Stuttgart: Building exhibition "Wohnen 2000" for the IGA Federal Garden Show 1994, 100 units, Syszkowic & Kowalski, HSS, LogID, Mecanoo, Tegnestue Vandkunsten and other architects, completion: 1993
79100 Freiburg-Vauban59 UNITS. Architecture: Rolf Disch; plus energy houses with 81 to 210 m2 and variable floor plan design; cost savings during construction due to pre-assembly of building services systems and wooden elements; south-facing orientation; main façade glazing total k-value o.5; CHP for energy supply; Expo 2000 project. Completion: 2006
45879 Gelsenkirchen: 246 WE, architects: Szyszkowitz-Kowalski (Graz), collection and use of rainwater, resource-saving choice of materials and construction, completion: 1998
59192 Kamen: Joachim Eble architecture; 1995/96, 280 dwelling units, water design Ramboll Studio Dreiseitl. a project of the IBA Emscher Park
