Building a sustainable city from the building blocks

Main issues
1. Strategies of regenerative design
2. Buildings and building materials
3. Material flows and life cycle analysis

Site description
The buildings are found in Hamburg, Lunebrg and Hannover. They consists of individual isolated one-family and multi family houses. and building material have no fixed sites and they are spread over many cities and twons in Germany.

Model description
Sustainable development requires that also the houses themselves are built according to principles of sustainability. The Wuppertal institute in Germany has developed in cooperation with the building industry a series of analytical tools of material flows and applied them to individual buildings. Principles of dematerialization, non-toxic material, and long term materials management such as recirculation of materials have been developed in the project. Energy performance of the individual houses is also considered. The ideas are used by several architicts in Hamburg, Lunegurg and Hannover.

TUHH-TuTech Technical University Hamburg Harburg
Prof. Walter Leal Filo
Shillerdamm 4, D-21079 Hamburg, Germany
Pho +49-40-7718 3327 Fax +49-40-7661 8058
E-mail: leal@tu-harburg.de

The project manager: Mr Per-Arne Lindstrom
PerArneLi@aol.com