Projects
The Relationship between City and Nature in History
by Inken Baller. Greening architecture and urban development is part of the long tradition of making cities livable and healthy. A look into history up to the recent past.
Photovoltaic Plantscapes
It is a generally accepted requirement that green buildings combined with photovoltaic (PV) energy generation should be increasingly used in cities. However, photovoltaics, the necessary substructure and greening structure must be carefully coordinated. The aim of...
The Hidden Treasures of the Biotope City Wienerberg at Vienna
The Biotope City neighborhood in Vienna is attracting a lot of attention, visits and tours are the order of the day. But most of the sustainable and climate-efficient features are not easily or not at all visible. They are 'hidden treasures'. In order to track them...
Symposium ‘The climate-resilient, green, nature-inclusive city’ – all contributions online !
The 10 most important elements that make up a climate-resilient, green, nature-inclusive city: State of the art. This year saw the completion of Biotope City Wienerberg, a climate-resilient, green, nature-inclusive neighbourhood. The project received the international...
What does biodiversity cost the taxpayer?
Unaffordable, especially now in view of the pandemic’s national debt? Christoph Küffer calculates the costs against the profits using Switzerland as an example.
THE ISLAND OF THE WILD VIENNESE
An uninhabited island in the middle of the big city, where deer and beavers live, where grey herons and cormorants find rich fishing grounds, where marsupial tits build their elaborate nests? A romantic dream? Inner-city nature reserves or fallow land are under high...
First forest tower planted in the Netherlands
Jannie Landa, Tom van Duuren and Harrie van Helmond Two years ago, we wrote an article on the start of construction of the Trudotoren on StrijpS in Eindhoven. Stefano Boeri's design is a variant of the Bosco verticale in Milan, but in this case built within the social...
Sferen / Atmospheres – Sculpture exhibition
Night-birds, riverbeds, Japanese knotweed and the source of the Mississippi… With their work, the six artists of Sferen make the viewer aware of his relationship with the natural and urban environment.
Urban Mining Technical Soils for Biotope Cities
Pia Minixhofer, Bernhard Scharf, Sebastian Hafner, Thomas Romm Growing cities In the coming years, more and more people will live and work in cities (UN 2018). The accompanying need for more housing and infrastructure is causing construction activity to increase....
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