Design Solutions for empowered Smart Citizens

01.03.2016 - 31.08.2017
Research funding project
Starting situation
The subsidized housing has undergone a price pressure resulting from increasing normative requirements (resulting in higher building costs), declining funds for subsidized housing and rising land prices. An increasing need for affordable housing and increasing desire for participation in housing projects, contradicts missing policies that support Smart Citizens in the shaping of their city.

Problem
This requires appropriate planning tools to reliably implement cost­effective, ecological, sustainable value and common construction methods in subsidized housing.

Motivation for carrying out the exploratory
Extension of the role of planners: The professional field of activity of planners is extended by communication and process design for self­builders at construction sites.

Goals
Transfer of "cultural knowledge" from the DIY Communities into an 'urbanized' construction practice that fullfills all current normative and technical requirements of building and also applies for the strategy of resilience (= usage openness). Designing a set of DIY grade, multi­storey constructions and evaluating their quantification (cost, life­cycle assessment) is the core task of this research program. Components are broken down into individual hands­on steps and their installation processes will be defined.

People

Project leader

Project personnel

Institute

Grant funds

  • FFG - Österr. Forschungsförderungs- gesellschaft mbH (National) Group Thematic programme Austrian Research Promotion Agency (FFG) Call identifier 6100089 Specific program Smart Cities Demo 6. Ausschreibung

Research focus

  • Energy and Environment

Keywords

GermanEnglish
NachhaltigkeitGemeinschaftlichkeit
FlexibilitätBauen
NachhaltigkeitSustainability
GemeinschaftlichkeitCommunality
FlexibilitätFlexibility

External partner

  • RWT Plus ZT GmbH
  • Käferhaus G.m.b.H.
  • asbn - Austrian Strawbale Network
  • Institut für Höhere Studien