With a focus on heat and drought

At the sym­po­si­um on cli­ma­te adapt­a­ti­on by the AWO (Workers’ Wel­fa­re Asso­cia­ti­on), Iza­be­la Malachow­s­­ka-Coqui pre­sen­ted our two cli­ma­te adapt­a­ti­on con­cepts for the AWO in Wittstock/Dosse and Prenz­lau in a key­note speech on cli­­ma­­te-sen­­si­­ti­­ve plan­ning for vul­nerable groups.

In the second part of the sym­po­si­um, which dealt with par­ti­ci­pa­ti­on pro­ces­ses, she also con­duc­ted a work­shop. In this work­shop, par­ti­ci­pan­ts work­ed tog­e­ther on the ques­ti­on of how pro­blems rela­ting to heat and heat pro­tec­tion in faci­li­ties can be iden­ti­fied and named.

Cam­pus Rahn School Leip­zig

We visi­ted our 2018 com­ple­ted pro­ject for the out­door faci­li­ties at the Rahn School cam­pus in Leip­zig.

Accor­ding to our plans, the out­door space is divi­ded into three recrea­ti­on are­as: the ent­rance cour­ty­ard, a run­ning track area and the schoo­ly­ard. In addi­ti­on, the school grounds have been given a plan­ted front gar­den area with hedges and a strip of trees as a bor­der.

Aes­the­tics and design of cli­­ma­­te-fri­en­d­­ly buil­ding cul­tu­re

Last year, Joerg Th. Coqui gave a lec­tu­re on new aes­the­tics in land­scape archi­tec­tu­re at the Gras­si Muse­um of Appli­ed Arts in Leip­zig.

In Forum 1, entit­led ‘Beau­tiful Green and Blue – On the Aes­the­tics of Cli­­ma­­te-Resi­­li­ent Urban Land­scapes,’ he spo­ke about the inter­play bet­ween aes­the­tics and cli­ma­te pro­tec­tion, using the exam­p­le of our pro­ject of the Hum­boldt Uni­ver­si­ty of Ber­lin’s Insti­tu­te of Phy­sics, which got award­ed at the 2025 Ger­man Land­scape Archi­tec­tu­re Pri­ze.

Cli­ma­te adapt­a­ti­on – rai­sing awa­re­ness, mobi­li­sing action, imple­men­ta­ti­on

At this work­shop we deve­lo­ped stra­te­gies tog­e­ther with the mana­gers of the various AWO faci­li­ties with the aim of bet­ter adap­ting the various out­door faci­li­ties to heat, drought and hea­vy rain­fall.

Three groups work­ed on pro­po­sals for the key topics of awa­re­ness rai­sing, pro­cess struc­tu­re and finan­cing. The work­shop iden­ti­fied important next steps for making out­door faci­li­ties cli­­ma­­te-resi­­li­ent.

Reason to cele­bra­te!

At the end of last year, we cele­bra­ted the top­­ping-out cerem­o­ny at the Sal­va­tor Catho­lic School in Ber­­lin-Rei­­ni­­cken­­dorf, whe­re a new sports hall and can­teen are being built for the school. In this pro­ject, which is being car­ri­ed out in coope­ra­ti­on with Krie­ger + Miel­ke Archi­tects, we are not only plan­ning the out­door faci­li­ties, but also pro­vi­ding eco­lo­gi­cal moni­to­ring of con­s­truc­tion work.

Last week during the site visit.