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GFB-Future Prize

Tarek Al-Wazir, Hessian Minister of State for Economics, Energy, Transport and Housing (right), presents the GFB Future Prize certificate to Prof. Sascha Luippold (centre).

GFB-Future Prize for HSRM Ideas-Workshop "New Living"

21.07.2022 - There are 37 partner cities and municipalities in the area ‘Großer Frankfurter Bogen’ (GFB). The basic idea is clear: Frankfurt Central Station can be reached from there by S-Bahn or regional train in a maximum of 30 minutes. But the ‘Großer Frankfurter Bogen’ is about more than that: How can we build well and better? How do we want to live in our cities and communities and in the region tomorrow? The GFB-Summer'22 sets out in search of answers.

"Our ‘Großer Frankfurter Bogen’ initiative has grown steadily over the past two and a half years - and it's working: more than three quarters of the 1,753 new social housing units subsidized by the state of Hesse in 2021 will be built in the partner municipalities of the ‘Großer Frankfurter Bogen’. This shows that our initiative is having an impact exactly where we need it," said Economics and Housing Minister Tarek Al-Wazir at the opening of the GFB Summer'22 at BAULAB Darmstadt. Around 25 towns and municipalities have developed a wide range of events especially for GFB-Summer'22 and are looking forward to welcoming long-time residents, newcomers and curious visitors from all over. From guided city tours to bike tours, from discussion events or exhibitions to creative temporary use or open-air cinema, there is something for everyone between the Taunus and Bergstrasse. "It is the diversity that makes up the region, the communities and their people. This is exactly what the GFB summer program reflects. Between Taunus and Bergstrasse, in large cities and smaller communities, there is plenty to experience," Al-Wazir is certain.

Jochen Partsch, mayor of the host city of the ‘Großer Frankfurter Bogen’, Darmstadt, added: "We all want to use the ‘Großer Frankfurter Bogen’ together to create new living space in liveable districts. The City of Science Darmstadt is happy to make a constructive contribution to this." The Hessian Chamber of Architects and Urban Planners, the DAM Deutsches Architekturmuseum, the Hochschule für Gestaltung Offenbach (hfg), the Rhein-Main-Verkehrsverbund (RMV) as mobility partner and the Technische Universität Darmstadt have been won as overarching cooperation partners with their own program contributions.

Future-Prize

As part of the launch event, Economics Minister Tarek Al-Wazir also presented the GFB Future-Prize, now in its second round. "From ideas come innovations. Congratulations to the prizewinners and their award-winning projects," congratulated Al-Wazir. With the maximum prize money of 20,000 euros, the GFB Future Prize goes to BAULAB Darmstadt. The other winners are the City of Frankfurt for its "Future Discourse" project with 15,000 euros and Hochschule RheinMain with "HSRM Ideen-Werkstatt für 'Neues Wohnen' Wiesbaden", which received the GFB Future Prize in the amount of 10,000 euros.

HSRM Ideas Workshop for New Living Wiesbaden

In the HSRM Ideas Workshop "New Living" Wiesbaden, future generations of designers and decision-makers are working together with committed citizens and the City of Wiesbaden on the ecologically sustainable and socially resilient housing models of tomorrow. "The current housing issue is more than ever linked to social and ecological transformation processes and can no longer be answered quantitatively by pure housing production in new buildings alone," said Prof. Sascha Luippold, Professor of Design and Climate-Friendly Construction in the Faculty of Architecture and Civil Engineering at RheinMain University of Applied Sciences. For him, in addition to demographic change, the new world of work and changes in mobility, social participation, structural climate adaptation and resource-conserving development of existing buildings are also the focus of sustainable neighborhood models.