RHA LAB

PUBLICATION GROSSWOHNSIEDLUNGEN DER ZUKUNFT

GROßWOHNSIEDLUNGEN DER ZUKUNFT.
(EN: “LARGE HOUSING ESTATES OF THE FUTURE”)
Final Report

RHA REICHER HAASE ASSOZIIERTE GMBH

RWTH Aachen – Lehrstuhl und Institut für Städtebau und europäische Urbanistik

RWTH Aachen – Junior professorship Cultural Heritage

German Aerospace Center

Sachverständigenbüro für Luftbildauswertung und Umweltfragen

Vonovia SE

February 2023

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OPEN BOOK GROßWOHNSIEDLUNGEN DER ZUKUNFT

The increasing pressure on housing and skyrocketing rents and purchase prices in the cities and the current energy and worsening climate crisis call for a rethinking about building and living in the future. In addition to political objectives that make quantitative statements as part of the government's mandate - such as the construction of of 400,000 new homes per year or the "net zero" target for new land take - there is currently still a lack of qualitative social debate about how and where building and housing of the future should be organized.

The study "Large Housing Estates of the Future" looked at four example for estates of this structural type: Cologne-Chorweiler, Kiel-Mettenhof, Dresden-Gorbitz and the Alterlaa residential park in Vienna. The publication studies the extent to which generally valid, qualitative target statements on building and living in the future can be generated. An interdisciplinary consortium with expertise in the fields of remote sensing, urban planning and building culture worked on generating fact-based knowledge about the factors that play a particular role in residential satisfaction and the neighborhood image. Building on this, ideas and proposals were formulated on how to achieve sustainable further development and high-quality transformation of large housing estates – and to what extent the estate type can also serve as a model for new neighborhood developments. The study thus makes a qualitative contribution to the political debate on the target values of urban development and housing supply.