Urban Development

In the long term, sustainably built settlements are superior to conventional building projects in terms of environmental, economic, and socio-cultural benefits, which is why this subject has become an increasingly urgent issue all over the world. The buildings of the future will no longer be isolated, independent structures - instead, they will interact with their environment in terms of design, function and infrastructure. The Fraunhofer Building Innovation Alliance enhances this process by conducting further fundamental research and by promoting the development of feasible concepts for urban planners and the building industry.

The member institutes of the Fraunhofer Building Innovation Alliance develop models, methods and tools that allow describing and assessing the sustainability of urban building projects. This research accompanies the entire life cycle of buildings from the construction stage, during usage through to demolition and disposal. The findings obtained from monitoring provide the basis for designing socially and ecologically livable cities. Sustainable urban development is composed of three modules, which are reflected in the projects implemented by the Fraunhofer Institutes. These include efficient use of energy resources, efficient use of material resources and efficient and intelligent use of space.

Another essential element in optimizing this efficiency constitutes the treatment of noise as a typical technology impact, and how to reduce or even eliminate noise by applying innovative acoustic technologies.

 

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District Energy Concept Adviser

The project is intended to support urban planners, housing companies, builders and local decision makers in the early planning stages of energy concepts for city districts.

 

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The First Shanghai Noise Symposium

The Fraunhofer Institute for Building Physics IBP introduced the concept of Acoustic Potentials of Urban Surfaces at the First Shanghai Noise Symposium as a reaction to tremendously increasing noise levels in larger cities in China like Beijing or Shanghai.

 

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Integrated City Energy Concept

In the scope of the program »Sino-German Cooperation on Renewable Energies (CoRE)« Fraunhofer experts provide capacity-building and scientific advice.

 

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Acoustic metamaterials

Metamaterials are artificial, heterogeneous, engineered structures with unusual properties like negative mass or negative stiffness. Realizations of such structures contain e.g. internal resonators as substructures or consist of a periodic array of small-scale units.

 

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Sponge City solution statement

In greater urban areas, the temperature can be as much as ten Kelvin higher than in surrounding rural areas, which has given rise to the term urban heat island. To reduce this effect, the basic idea is for concrete paving stones to be able to store water.

 

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Baoshan New-Good-City Focus Area

The project is located in the residential community area of the middle-west zone of the Baoshan District in Shanghai. In the future the zone will be combined with a rail transit terminal which will change the area into a regional public activity center.

 

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Urban Renovation of Donauwörth

Based on the original harbor, the landscape design of the project provides a 6.5 meter high floodwall and re-layouts the old barge pier. The scheme plan of the urban space between wharf and river plaza was carefully designed so that the Ried Island and the center of the old town regained their vitality.

 

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Shanghai Hongqiao Low Carbon Business Demonstration District

The Low-Carbon Business Center in Hongqiao defines itself through the sustainability factors urban planning, traffic planning and energy production.

 

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Zhangjiang Lifescience Town

The project is located in the outside ring of Shanghai north-east area and in the east of Zhangjiang Science and Technology City. Different from the traditional biological medicine industry park, the scheme plan is based on an industrial scientific town and is characterized by a friendly dynamic atmosphere and a strong sense of belonging.

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