COQUI MALACHOWSKA COQUI

VISITING BERLIN

The dele­ga­ti­on of the Poz­nan City Conservator’s Office, tog­e­ther with the head of the Poz­nan City Archi­tec­tu­ral Office, coun­cil mem­bers and employees of the Office invol­ved in the deve­lo­p­ment of the E. Szyc Sta­di­um in Poz­nan as a com­pe­ti­ti­on jury, went on an excur­si­on to Ber­lin. Various recrea­tio­nal and sports are­as in Ber­lin were visi­ted under the gui­dance of Iza­be­la Mal­chow­s­­ka-Coqui. The­se included Gleis­drei­eck Park, the Süd­park area, as well as inten­si­ve and exten­si­ve natu­ral parks within the city. They also visi­ted Möckern­kiez, loca­ted at Gleis­drei­eck, with archi­tect Chris­toph Roe­dig. This excur­si­on gave the par­ti­ci­pan­ts the oppor­tu­ni­ty to visit various recrea­tio­nal and green are­as and gather inspi­ra­ti­on for the deve­lo­p­ment of the city of Poz­nan.

GRAD

After more than two years of work on the deve­lo­p­ment of pilot stra­te­gies for the pro­mo­ti­on of green roofs, a sum­ma­ry and pre­sen­ta­ti­on of the pro­ject results was con­duc­ted. This pro­ject has con­tri­bu­ted to the deve­lo­p­ment of docu­ments that com­bi­ne in an inno­va­ti­ve way the objec­ti­ves of sus­tainable urban deve­lo­p­ment with cli­ma­te poli­cy objec­ti­ves, such as adapt­a­ti­on to cli­ma­te chan­ge and cli­ma­te chan­ge action. On Decem­ber 11, 2020, the final con­fe­rence of the GRAD pro­ject was held: Green Roofs as a Tool for Cli­ma­te Chan­ge Adapt­a­ti­on in Urban Are­as gathe­red a num­ber of peo­p­le inte­res­ted in a holi­stic approach to the deve­lo­p­ment of green roofs in cities.

GRAD

Within the bounds of the GRAD- Stra­tegy of Green Roofs pro­ject, repre­sen­ta­ti­ves of 8 pilot cities under­took a stu­dy tour to Ham­burg on June 5 and 6, 2019. During this trip, they lear­ned more about the deve­lo­p­ment of the city’s green roof stra­tegy, obser­ved how it is chan­ging the urban land­scape, and visi­ted fasci­na­ting objects with green roofs and vivid walls. The­se are beco­ming more num­e­rous every year — the city of Hamburg’s goal is to cover urban are­as of up to 100 hec­ta­res with vege­ta­ti­on. New green roofs are being built on both public and pri­va­te buil­dings — resi­den­ti­al and com­mer­cial — and a signi­fi­cant num­ber of them are open to the public.

WRA IX

The con­fe­rence “Water City — Water as an Asset” addres­ses the incre­asing importance of rain­wa­ter as a valuable resour­ce in cities in the face of hea­vy rain­fall and drought. Floo­ding and pro­lon­ged dry peri­ods are incre­asing­ly pro­ble­ma­tic in Euro­pean cities. In Pol­and, fre­quent rain­fall cau­ses mil­li­ons of dol­lars in dama­ge, while ari­di­ty puts a strain on green spaces and resi­dents’ health. His­to­ri­cal­ly, rivers were con­side­red a bles­sing, and cities were plan­ned with water in mind. In Ger­ma­ny, “water-sen­­si­­ti­­ve urban deve­lo­p­ment” incor­po­ra­tes effi­ci­ent water resour­ce manage­ment into plan­ning to make cities more resi­li­ent to cli­ma­te chan­ge. The con­fe­rence will dis­cuss mea­su­res such as rain­wa­ter sto­rage via green roofs, redu­cing sea­led sur­faces and res­to­ring water­cour­ses. The objec­ti­ve is to rai­se awa­re­ness among city offi­ci­als and resi­dents to adopt a water-sen­­si­­ti­­ve mind­set. Loca­ti­on: SARP ul. Fok­sal 2 Wars­za­waDate: 26.10.2018

GRAD

The “GRAD” pro­ject aimed to adapt the expe­ri­ence of the City of Ham­burg in deve­lo­ping green roof stra­te­gies sin­ce 2014 to an exem­pla­ry stra­tegy struc­tu­re to Polish con­di­ti­ons. In coope­ra­ti­on with the City of Ham­burg and eight Polish pilot cities (Biel­s­­ko-Biała, Bydg­oszcz, Gdy­nia, Kalisz, Kraków, Lub­lin, Wars­za­wa and Wro­cław), the Sto­war­zy­sze­nie Gmin Pol­ska Sieć “Ener­gie Cités” imple­men­ted the pro­ject from 2018 to 2020. The con­fe­rence cover­ed topics such as water reten­ti­on, green roofs, stra­tegy and storm­wa­ter manage­ment. The aim of the pro­ject was to pro­mo­te green roofs and faca­des as a means of cli­ma­te adapt­a­ti­on in urban are­as, using the expe­ri­ence of Ham­burg. Indi­vi­du­al stra­te­gies for the men­tio­ned Polish cities were deve­lo­ped to sup­port the pro­mo­ti­on and imple­men­ta­ti­on of green roof pro­jects. The publi­ca­ti­on pro­vi­des details on various aspects such as types, bene­fits and cos­ts of green roofs, as well as on the deve­lo­p­ment of indi­vi­du­al tar­gets and mea­su­res to pro­mo­te and sup­port green roof pro­jects in Polish cities.

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

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

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