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

Created on: 24 Mar 2018 14:36
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Fuchur
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:


Aerial view of a residential area with colorful roofs, streets, cars, and construction work along the waterfront.



Aerial view of a construction site with a crane, new houses, and adjacent row houses in autumn.



Aerial view of a construction area with new buildings, streets, trees, and red roofs.



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


Aerial photo of a new residential neighborhood: many modern houses with dark roofs, streets, and vehicles.


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
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Alex85
25 Mar 2018 15:57
I wouldn’t choose a bungalow, as I have never seen a practical floor plan over 150sqm (1,615 sq ft) for a bungalow. But that wasn’t really the point. A two-story house offers more usable living space with the same footprint.
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Alex85
25 Mar 2018 15:59
ypg schrieb:


I always found it pointless to discuss aura with men [emoji14]

I can believe that right away.
However, we'll probably have very different opinions about the reason why.
saar2and25 Mar 2018 17:09
And it seems that everyone has chosen the classic urban villa. If I spend a lot of money on a house, I don’t want to live like that.
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Müllerin
25 Mar 2018 17:12
I would never have built like that. I wanted a house so that I could have a garden and some peace and quiet.
In a multi-story apartment, I actually have more peace than on those towels. Just around the corner from us, there is an area (but with strict design regulations) where you can see into the kitchen of one house from the street through the house in front of it. Because the buildings are so close together. I don’t need a house with that kind of tightness... creepy.

We were lucky with our 460 m² (5,000 sq ft) plot in a new development area; most of the nearby plots are much smaller—although I would have liked to have more space, but for that, I would have had to marry rich.
Mycraft25 Mar 2018 17:19
Müllerin schrieb:
We were also lucky with our 460sqm (5,000 sq ft) plot in the new development area, most plots in the surroundings are much smaller

You will be surprised, but apparently you have it.

Most of the plots in the last picture with many houses are exactly 450sqm (4,844 sq ft) in size,
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Nordlys
25 Mar 2018 17:22
And we consider our just under 600 to be the minimum. This also has a lot to do with getting used to it.
However, this development area shown in the photos would have benefited from a zoning plan / building plan and a floor area ratio of no more than 0.3. In this case, less would definitely be more. Karsten