Wachstum findet InnenStadt

In the years 2023 - 2025, Hochschule RheinMain is supporting the project "Wachstum findet InnenStadt", which is funded by the Bundesinstitut für Bau-, Stadt- und Raumforschung (BBSR) as part of the "Zukunft Bau" innovation program. It deals with post-war modernist housing estates from the 1950/60s and their conditions. These estates have become outdated in terms of both their urban planning concept and their structural substance. They are usually replaced by new buildings or renovated for energy efficiency without doing justice to the urban potential of these estates. Often, the existing open spaces are not redesigned or even disappear completely due to redensification.
 

However, it is precisely these open spaces that offer particular potential for ecological use as well as for semi-public and semi-public-creating uses. Post-war housing estates can provide spaces for biodiversity, climate adaptation, encounters, appropriation and spaces for more sustainable transportation concepts. The goal of the project is to identify these social and ecological open space qualities.

The core message of the project is that taking into account the living environments and needs of the residents of a settlement under pressure to densify in planning and design processes brings added value for all those involved. This approach is in line with the socio-political demand for the participation of the affected population groups. The aim is to contribute to the question of how redensification processes can be designed to be as ecologically and socially compatible as possible, taking into account the needs of affected population groups, so that they contribute to an increase in the quality of life of residents while at the same time preserving and enhancing open spaces.