We have been designing innovative, CLIMATE-POSITIVE, CIRCULAR and RESILIENT cities for over 20 years.
Our focus is on building in existing contexts and implementing the PRINCIPLES OF THE SPONGE CITY.
Vibrant spaces that strengthen the COMMUNITY and shape the VEGETATION OF THE FUTURE are the goal of our integrated planning.
A new senior center
In Gefrees, in the Fichtelgebirge mountains of northern Bavaria, construction of the outdoor facilities for the “Haus am Bühl” care home – which will accommodate around 100 care places – is set to begin this spring.
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.
