ᐅ Current Building Practices and New Residential Developments Compliant with Energy Efficiency Regulations

New development areas and how they look nowadays due to energy saving regulations, etc.

It used to be a huge site in an old district of East Berlin (former military area and restricted zone).

In 2006, things still started off quite reasonably. In the end, there are now around 500 houses. What’s interesting is that each year the plots got smaller, but the houses built on them became larger.

This was the beginning in 2006, as mentioned, still quite moderate:

Now, around 2017 and after about four construction phases, this is what it looks like:

There was no real zoning plan there. Practically anything could be built that was available in the portfolio.

Fuchur schrieb:
OT: I would feel claustrophobic with these plots. The best ones are almost always in the shade...

Combining and rearranging didn’t go perfectly smoothly but it’s alright...
Regards, Mycraft

I agree with you, but what can you do if you don’t have a choice? Keep renting an apartment? I can imagine that some of the residents there would also prefer a bit more space (and therefore more sunlight)...

ruppsn schrieb:
I agree with that too, but what can you do if you don’t have a choice?

For exactly this reason, we decided to demolish an existing property in a residential area from the 1950s. You end up mainly paying for the land plus demolition costs, and then you have a reasonably sized plot—in our case, even a bit too large at 1,085m² (11,680 sq ft).

When I see those battery cage systems, it just feels like too much to me as well. But what can you do.

That’s clear to me already; the land prices in my home region are easily 20 times higher than here. But yes, I wouldn’t move into a building gap there, no matter what the alternative looks like. Okay, enough off-topic.

[emoji33]This is terrible... these two-story houses lined up in a row.
The development plan mandates two-story buildings, and every homeowner happily builds some standard villa… I can’t really call any of them attractive.

Edit: I have to correct myself: the bottom left shows that the development plan also allows single-story buildings… and yet they all build mainstream anyway [emoji23]

Who would voluntarily build 1.5 stories when two are allowed?
“In a row” means “adjacent to a street.” This alignment is simply due to the shared street and lot size, which leaves no choice for the house positioning.

Otherwise, I think it’s still acceptable. Look at developments by builders where the same house is repeated 20 times in a row. I find that strange again.