Author: gabe@crewint.org

WEISSENSEE DISTRICT

Colorful resi­den­ti­al area in Weis­sen­see Social housing meets sau­na

BETHANIEN-HÖFE EPPENDORF

Strol­ling squa­re, the­ra­py gar­den, natu­re gar­den

WRA VIII

The con­fe­rence is dedi­ca­ted to the topic of urban deve­lo­p­ment from dif­fe­rent per­spec­ti­ves. The aspects of mas­ter plans, design gui­de­lines and stan­dards in urban plan­ning will be dis­cus­sed, inclu­ding the revi­ta­liza­ti­on of a for­mer mili­ta­ry area for a new resi­den­ti­al dis­trict in Ulm by archi­tect Joerg Th. Coqui. The col­la­bo­ra­ti­on bet­ween cities and pri­va­te inves­tors known as “URBAN AGREE­MENTS” will be high­ligh­ted, inclu­ding the tal­lest “green” resi­den­ti­al high-rise, Donau Flats in Vien­na, and inves­tor com­mit­ments, pre­sen­ted by Jas­min Sora­via, CEO of SoReal GmbH. Also dis­cus­sed will be invest­ments in urban pro­jects and the role of archi­tec­tu­ral com­pe­ti­ti­ons in desig­ning opti­mal buil­dings, with examp­les inclu­ding a Ger­man archi­tec­tu­ral com­pe­ti­ti­on and the open call com­pe­ti­ti­on for Rynek Łazar­ski in Poz­nań, pre­sen­ted by archi­tect Peter Achat­zi and initia­tor archi­tect Dawid Stre­bicki. Date: 20.11.2017Venue: Zamoy­ski Palace — Asso­cia­ti­on of Polish Archi­tects (SARP), Fok­sal Street 2 in War­saw.Num­ber of par­ti­ci­pan­ts: 200

WRA VII

Fol­lo­wing the adop­ti­on of a new urban rede­ve­lo­p­ment law in Pol­and in win­ter 2015, future pro­jects are expec­ted to reach a new dimen­si­on. Pre­vious urban rede­ve­lo­p­ment pro­jects in Pol­and often had to do only with rede­ve­lo­p­ment and did not always achie­ve the hoped-for revi­ta­liza­ti­on of the city dis­tricts. Lodz, Bytom and Wal­brzych were sel­ec­ted as model pro­ject cities. The con­fe­rence dis­cus­sed the first expe­ri­en­ces of the­se pro­jects and com­pared them with Ger­man urban rede­ve­lo­p­ment con­cepts and alre­a­dy rea­li­zed pro­jects in order to ana­ly­ze the dif­fe­rent start­ing situa­tions and pro­ces­ses. The goals of the mee­ting included defi­ning con­cepts and pro­ces­ses, empha­si­zing inter­di­sci­pli­na­ri­ty, sti­mu­la­ting par­ti­ci­pa­ti­on of dif­fe­rent stake­hol­ders and sha­ring know­ledge about pro­blems and risks of urban rede­ve­lo­p­ment pro­jects. Pre­sen­ta­ti­ons were given by: Man­fred Küh­ne (Head of Depart­ment Sena­te Depart­ment for Urban Deve­lo­p­ment and Envi­ron­ment, Ber­lin), Jacek Grunt-Mejer (Coor­di­na­tor of the Pro­gram of Revi­ta­liza­ti­on in War­saw), Dipl.-Ing. Tho­mas Göbel-Groß, Urban Desi­gner, Han­na Gill — (Pią­tek, Depart­ment of Revi­ta­liza­ti­on, Łódź), Till Reh­waldt (Reh­waldt Land­scape Archi­tects).

GREEN CITY

As part of the Fes­ti­val of Gar­dens, on Sep­tem­ber 10 at 3:30 p.m. we invi­te you to the grand ope­ning of the plant instal­la­ti­on “Gar­dens on the Steps” at the Natio­nal Muse­um in War­saw. Plant instal­la­ti­ons on stac­­ca­­to-like plat­forms scat­te­red on the steps of the monu­men­tal cour­ty­ard space of the Natio­nal Muse­um are the “Green WOW!” of the Gar­den Fes­ti­val. “Gar­dens on the steps” for a while beco­me a place of clo­se encoun­ters, a “green” island of back­stage con­ver­sa­ti­ons after visi­ting exhi­bi­ti­ons or befo­re ente­ring the muse­um. Who will noti­ce the lack of water in the pool? We will plant the gar­den tog­e­ther! The cele­bra­ti­on will be enhan­ced by a vio­lin per­for­mance by Mar­ze­na Hodyr and Szy­mon Tel­ecki. During the ope­ning, we invi­te you to enjoy con­ver­sa­ti­on over a glass of wine, as well as a walk through the muse­um’s coll­ec­tions on the topic: “How much GREEN is in GREEN?”.

WRA VI

The con­fe­rence addres­sed the cur­rent situa­ti­on of sus­taina­bi­li­ty in cities. With glo­bal envi­ron­men­tal impacts main­ly due to cities, the ques­ti­on ari­ses how we can crea­te a sta­ble and huma­ne envi­ron­ment for urban resi­dents. This is beco­ming incre­asing­ly important in light of ongo­ing demo­gra­phic chan­ge and the “renais­sance of cities.” Spe­cial atten­ti­on will be given to the poten­ti­al of green and open spaces in cities, which can pro­vi­de not only envi­ron­men­tal but also eco­no­mic bene­fits. Spea­k­ers included: Dr.-Ing. Jan Kamiń­ski (Chair­man of the Coun­cil for Spa­ti­al Cul­tu­re at the Mayor of Lub­lin), Land­scape Archi­tect Klaus Hop­pe (Direc­tor of Hor­ti­cul­tu­re Ham­burg), Land­scape Archi­tect Lorenz Dex­ler (TOPOTEK1), Andrea Geri­scher (Pro­ject Mana­ger IGA Ber­lin 2017), — Archi­tect Dr. Peter Apel (Pla­nungs­bü­ro STADT­KIN­DER). Date: June 10, 2016Place: Zamoy­ski Palace — Asso­cia­ti­on of Polish Archi­tects (SARP), Fok­sal Street 2 in War­saw.Num­ber of par­ti­ci­pan­ts: 100

MESTO MALINA™

Insi­de and out­side — out­side and insi­de

PARK OF THE THEATRE ISLAND GUBIN-GUBEN

City bal­co­nies and cul­tu­ral park

ROSENSTEINVIERTEL STUTTGART

Open spaces of a new urban rea­li­ty

WRA V

The 5th War­saw Archi­tec­tu­re Talks focu­sed on the topic of Inno­va­ti­ve Housing and high­ligh­ted the expe­ri­en­ces of the IBA Ham­burg as well as the housing pro­ject “Nowe Żer­ni­ki” in Wro­claw. For­­ward-loo­king approa­ches to housing con­s­truc­tion were dis­cus­sed, inclu­ding low-cost con­s­truc­tion, intel­li­gent buil­ding mate­ri­als and fle­xi­ble resi­den­ti­al archi­tec­tu­re. The event offe­red insights into IBA Ham­bur­g’s con­cepts regar­ding low-cost con­s­truc­tion, ener­­gy-smart faca­des and adap­ta­ble hou­ses. At the same time, the resi­den­ti­al pro­ject “Nowe Żer­ni­ki” was pre­sen­ted, a sus­tainable neigh­bor­hood in Wro­claw that aims for a high qua­li­ty of life and a varie­ty of uses. Pre­sen­ters included: Ewa Mali­­now­s­­ka-Gru­pińs­­ka (City Coun­cil Pre­si­dent City of War­saw), Uli Hell­weg (Mana­ging Direc­tor IBA Ham­burg), Piotr Fok­c­zyń­ski, (City Archi­tect of Wro­claw) and Arch. Micha­el Zil­ler (zil­ler­plus archi­tects). Date: 16.11.2015 (Mon­day). Venue: Zamoy­ski Palace — Asso­cia­ti­on of Polish Archi­tects (SARP), Fok­sal Street 2 in War­saw. Num­ber of par­ti­ci­pan­ts: 110