Patterns

Open workshops and repair cafés are places where people can work and learn together, where the lifespan of products is extended in the long term and where intensive social exchange takes place.

Community

Self-organised working groups structure task areas, regulate their competences and responsibilities and ensure a functioning daily routine.

Community

Flexible ground plans allow various layouts of dwelling, flexibility and future adoptions according to new use or living constellations as well as changing ideas of living.

Architecture and spatial design

Architecture for encounter are spaces along with their direct architectural environment that enable and promote interaction between residents.

Architecture and spatial design

Atriums enable compact structures with large building depths, which provide a good option for natural lighting and ventilation of rooms and create synergies for meeting and communication.

Architecture and spatial design

Shared spaces are generally spaces for coming together. Generous communal areas can reduce the need for large private housing or the average housing requirement per capita.

Community

The rue intérieure provides an internal, horizontal connection between several vertical accesses, thus linking spaces and occupants and promoting encounters between users.

Architecture and spatial design

Community terraces enable residents to meet, promote communication and thus reduce anonymity in a project.

Architecture and spatial design

Inclusive housing projects are barrier-free and offer inclusive architectural arrangements as well as various and flexible flat sizes, which allow a high mix of residents.

Functions and planning program

Cluster apartments combine the advantages of a micro flat with those of a shared flat and promote self-organised group living through the collective use of common areas.

Functions and planning program

Green facades make cities more liveable as they combine positive climatic, psychological and aesthetic effects with rainwater harvesting and an increase in building efficiency and biodiversity.

Green and blue infrastructure

Green roofs compensate for sealed surfaces, store rainwater, improve the microclimate, air conditions and building efficiency while enhancing aesthetics.

Green and blue infrastructure

Rainwater is an important source of water that provides multiple benefits.

Green and blue infrastructure

Greywater is slightly polluted water in the household that can be reused through suitable processes and thus contributes to the circular economy.

Green and blue infrastructure

Recycling, circular economy and urban mining

Sustainable use of natural resources requires the development of a circular economy and an ecologically intelligent design of all products and value chains.

Material

A disassembly-friendly design is a basic prerequisite for circular construction, in which waste can be minimised and optimally recycled.

Material

A material passport brings together material and product information along the product life cycle and is an important prerequisite for the future dismantling and reuse of materials.

Material

Renewable raw materials contribute significantly to the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions and to the circular economy if sustainable land management is ensured and if they are used sparingly and efficiently.

Material

Open workshops and repair café

Self-organised working groups

Flexible floor plan

Architecture for encounter

Compact volume and atriums

Shared space

Rue intérieure

Community terrace

Inclusive housing

Cluster apartments

Green façade

Green roofs

Rainwater harvesting

Grey water usage

Recycling, circular economy and urban mining

Design for disassembly

Material passport

Use of renewable materials