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Discovering Rothenburgsort

Scott Stamper, Emily Green & Rebecca Nutbrown

Contents Introduction

City Of Hamburg 4 People of Hamburg 6 Population of Hamburg 8

Analysis

The Economy Of Hamburg 10 Concept 14 Mapping the City 16 Manifesto 17 Hamburg Concept Study 18 Site Collages 19 Site Photos 20 Land use 22 Making Connections 23

Development

Nodes 24 Development Sketches 30 Proposed Nodes Map 32 Concept and Strategy Diagram 34 Discovering Rothensburgsort Masterplan 36 Cultural Corridor 38 Street Sections 50 South Rothensburgsort 52

Appendix

North Rothensburgsort 64 Costing 72 Environmental Strategy 76

City of Hamburg

Hamburg, a major port city in northern Germany, is connected to the North Sea by the Elbe River. It’s crossed by hundreds of canals, and also contains large areas of parkland. The Elbe is one of the major rivers of Central Europe, rising in the Mountains of northern Czech Republic before traversing much of Bohemia, then Germany and flowing into the North Sea at Cuxhaven, 110 km northwest of Hamburg.

Germany’s biggest port has always been outward-looking. Its dynamism, multiculturalism and red-light district, the Reeperbahn, all arise from its maritime history. Joining the Hanseatic League trading in the Middle Ages, this long-standing duty-free port has been enthusiastically doing business with the world ever since. In the 1960s, it nurtured the talent of the Beatles. In the 21st century, it’s also a media capital and the wealthiest city in Germany.

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People of Hamburg

Germany has embraced the migrant crisis, expecting to house up to 40,000 refugees. The country seems to have fully embraced the new arrivals, and all over the country people are giving their time, money and possessions to the people who seek a new life here.

“In Hamburg there’s a vast warehouse. Its ceilings are high; birds fly through the open doors at either end and scores of volunteers push trolleys up and down aisles of stacked cardboard boxes. Others fold clothing into bags Everything here has been donated by people in Hamburg, along with supplies and children’s toys. Every day, vans and lorries collect pallets and boxes and deliver them to refugee shelters around the city. A rather harassed co-ordinator called Simone says that with refugees arriving every day in Hamburg, demand was growing.”

Jenny Hill, BBC News The influx of migrants has put pressure on the authorities of the northern city to find accommodation. Some migrants are sleeping rough outdoors. With the continually growing arrivals and demand for housing, Hamburg has become the first German city to pass a law allowing the seizure of empty commercial properties in order to house migrants.

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Population of Hamburg

Population Estimate (2013/14) Population Estimate (2013/14) Mitte Hafen City Veddel Rothenburgsort St. Pauli

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279,206 2,093 4,707 9,092 22,433

Mitte Hafen City Veddel Rothenburgsort St. Pauli

279,206 2,093 4,707 9,092 22,433

Harbu Harburg

150,209

Harbu Harburg

150,209

Altona

254,354

Altona

254,354

Nord

283,397

Nord

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Wandsbek

409,176

Wandsbek

409,176

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Economy of Hamburg

The Hamburg metropolitan region offers a great quality of life in a vibrant, creative city. Its hallmarks are strong purchasing power, a superb pool of potential employees and business-friendly policies. Impressive figures, facts and comparisons show why Hamburg is the economic powerhouse of an entire region. Hamburg is one of the cities in Germany with the most energetic economic performance. Traditionally, the dominant industries here are commerce and shipbuilding. The port accounts for 10% of the area of the city and is currently undergoing a 73 million euro expansion.

As a trade and transport metropolis, Hamburg has more than 90 consulates. 460 companies from Asia have their European headquarters or a branch office in Hamburg.

Along with the development of HafenCity, an ultra-modern commercial and business district is currently being built directly on the Elbe river, forming a major urban regeneration project for the city of Hamburg. Hamburg is also a location for highly specialized industries. It is a leader in medical technology and biotechnology and is one of the world centres for aircraft construction: it is here that the wide-bodied A380 is being built.

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Analysis

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Concept Dammtor James Sheard It’s May, you thought, and after rain.

White hawthorn had taken thew tracksides, and no matter where we dig, you thought, we find a tilted land on a tipped earth.

It’s soft, you thought, the long grey scar of vanished rails.

Something in your pack sounded like hoofbeats.

Poor luggage lay piled on the gravel. You thought of how Dammtor was a station for midnights, hitched up on stone legs, hollow with sunken light, with the swallowed plosives of church-space. You thought of places to be broke in, too late to go home from.

Places to watch a welder in the high girders. his flaring iris hissing shut.

Yours stuckopen.

Dammtor, by James Sheard, explores the transformation of the old city gate into a modern city transport hub for Hamburg. The poem is about a journey from the Dammtor Station. It focuses on the reality and truth about undiscovered places and people in Hamburg. A journey was formed by mapping the rhythm of people on a direct route from Dammtor to Rothenburgsort, noting the public anchors along the way.

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“Dammtor explores a journey, a mapping of the city, picking up on everyday places and unique spaces which are generally undiscovered, or unexamined.

Essentially aiming to inspire a different way to look at the world around you� - James Sheard

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Mapping the City

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Inspired by the poetry of James Sheard, we produced a short film showcasing our mapping of the city of Hamburg.

The film aims to map the activity of people and highlight the urban nodes and anchors of the city, through examining the city rhythm flowing between them.

It shows a journey carried out from the city centre, towards the area of Rothenburgsort, where the decrease in public activity is clearly evident.

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MANIFESTO We dismiss the interjection of large-scale redevelopments as a process to regenerate an area, with complete disregard for the history and the users. There is a need for collective memory in places and buildings, creating connections across areas by forming thresholds that can be used and enjoyed by the people.

The project seeks to unveil the undiscovered anchors and hidden gems across the site to express the characteristics of a place. This will be achieved through small interventions, consisting of infill development in a range of scales across the site to encourage community engagement.

1.VALUE THE EXISTING 2.DEFINE WHAT IS MISSING 3.PRESERVE THE POTENTIAL

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Hamburg Context Study

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Site Collages

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Site Photos

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1. VALUE THE EXISTING Acknowledge the existing character of the area; respecting active events, vistas, heritage and anchors.

2/3. DEFINE WHAT IS MISSING & PRESERVE THE POTENTIAL Establish existing potential and build upon it, proposing interventions which aim to strengthen the area and support future intentions TOWN CENTRE A central hub for the area, bridging the gap between the surrounding neighbourhoods. An existing town centre masterplan is being utilised within the site, highlighting the proposal of Hamburg City Council for the area.

CULTURAL PROGRAMMING Cultural activity is embedded within the city of Hamburg, with a proposal to extend the existing cultural corridor into the site. Adding meaning to places within the public realm, along with providing the ability for instances of both formal and informal cultural activity.

RELEASE SPACES Providing spaces to relieve pedestrians of congestion and traffic, creating links to cultural venues and anchors in the area. These places act as an intermediate point for pedestrians, a space for rest or contemplation.

HOST SPACES Define places for cultural and community activity, both internal and external, where creative arts become part of the public realm.

These spaces act as the host to a performance or activity along the route, becoming a link between cultural or heritage venues.

WAYFINDING Focusing on the anchors positioned off the main route for the area, a strategy for enhancing these places and improving their presence is made, where lighting, signage and public events are key to highlighting these relatively hidden assets.

HERITAGE Aiming to preserve and effectively maintain the character and grain of the area; the buildings, spaces and structures which express the unique qualities of Rothensburgsort, along with its heritage will become mapped, and enhanced.

PUBLIC REALM An effort will be made in order to enhance the public realm within Rothensburgsort, where the pedestrian circulation will become improved, through new public spaces and redesigned streetscapes, particularly along the main proposed route around the site.

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Landuse

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B1 - Business - Small Industrial B2 - General Industrial A C Uses- Shops Education Hotel Restaurant Public Residential/Private

NORTH A relatively well-established mix of residential and industry, this region could benefit from improved public realm in areas. A potential for additional communal facilities is apparent, along with a lack of definition to some existing edges and voids.

CENTRAL Holding the Rothensburgsort station at its heart, the central region becomes intersected by heavy infrastructure from the range of transport networks dominating this area. A large void in this region holds potential to develop a town centre for Rothensburgsort, where facilities could accomodate both local residents and tourists. A mixed-use town centre would also aim to support a new extension for the station, whilst also forming an end point to the extended cultural corridor.

SOUTH Containing a series of unkept spaces, the south region is relatively undefined, although the area holds potential for effective open spaces and waterfront development. A redevelopment of the Elb park becomes a key idea, where the park beocomes more populated with pavilions, along with accomodating some sports facilities which are active in the area. Improvements will be made to the Water Forum, where access and public realm become important.

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Making Connections

Highlighting Gravitational pulls leading in from the city centre towards Hamburg and making these into connections allows us to analyse the possible flow of public activity.

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S Bahn Station Museum Libray/Theatre Church/Historic monument

Gravitational Pulls

Linking the Magnets

Routes through the Magnets

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Cultural Corridor Nodes

Site Nodes

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Development Sketches

Defining the areas

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Making Connections

Establishing the route

Noting the Voids

Urban Nodes

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Proposed Nodes Map

This map shows a number of important aspects to our scheme which together become our new interventions to help reconnect Rothensburgsort to the rest of Hamburg. With a major or minor anchor located no more than every fifteen minutes along the route.

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Town Centre Masterplan implemented by City Council Strengthening Rothensburgsort as a district

Extension & strengthening of Cultural Corridor Connecting the district to central Hamburg

OUR STRATEGY

Define main routes to feed into surrounding Neighbourhoods Encourage public movement through potential anchors

Development of existing anchors strengthening the surrounding routes supplying the Town Centre with viability

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SURROUNDING ROUTE creative route supporting central district

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Discovering Rothensburgsort Masterplan

Discovering Rothenburgsort is a series of interventions aiming to reconnect the area into the city centre of Hamburg. A series of nodes create a network of cultural anchors for the area which stimulates pedestrian movement and public activity for the area. The scheme gives the district purpose and strengthens the area as a destination for both the people of Hamburgh, and tourists.

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Cultural Corridor

1.Performing Arts School 2.Industry & Museum 3.Music 4.Waterside Leisure Complex 5.Pavillion

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Cultural Gate Way Gate way building Music Arena

Factory School for The Arts

Cultural Corridor Water pavillions

Over Head Rail

Outside Theatre

The idea for completing the existing cultural corridor is to support the other elements of the urban design

Public Park

evelopment, the idea that the town centre wont thrive without the completion of the corridor and the walking route wont work without the introduction of the centre which will introduce a denser population to the area.

Widening the pedestrian element of the street mainly along one side and creating cultural elements mainly on one side every ten minute walking distance (300m). Creating a performing arts school along the corridor connects with the existing theatre and new music arena.

The idea for completing the existing cultural corridor is to support the other elements of the urban design development, the idea that the town centre wont thrieve without the completion of the corridor and the walking route wont work without the introduction of the centre which will introduce a denser population to the area.40 Widening the pedestrian element of the street mainly along one side and creating cultural elements mainly on one side every ten minute walking distance (300m). Creating a performing arts school along the corridor connects with the existing theatre and new music arena.

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Cultural Gate Way

Town Centre

Pavion Gate way building Music Arena

Cultural Corridor

Billhorner Kanal Factory

Public Park

Water pavillions

Emphasising the existing cultural route in to the city centre allows for more public spaces and infill buildings to be created. Making use of the existing canal running through the area allows for pedestrians to not be as over whelmed as they are at the current situation of the wide main roads. The public spaces and smaller built elements such as restaurants, shops and bars running on a different level to the road along the water create a more human scale while supporting the larger gravitational pull buildings along the road.

Emphasising the existing cultural route in to the city centre allows for more public spaces and infill buildings to tbe created. Making use of the existing canal running through the area allows for pedestrians to not be as over whelmed as they are at the current situation of the wide main roads. The public spaces and smaller built elements 42 such as restaurants, shops and bars running on a different level to the road along the watter create a more human scale while supporting the larger gravitational pull buildings along the road.

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Cultural Gate Way

Factory Water pavillions

Cultural Corridor

Public Park

Gate way building Music Arena

Pavion

The road into the city centre should continue the cultural approach into the route by adding more public Over-head Rail

buildings, using pedestrian crossings as means to slowing traffic as well as different levels, trees and foliage to help buffer vehicle noise.

The cultural road into the city centre should continue the cultural approach into the route by adding more public buildings, using pesterian crossings as means to slowing traffic as well as different levels, trees and foliage to help buffer vehical noise 44

Pedestrian crossing

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Cultural Gate Way

Gate way building Music Arena Pedestrian Crossing Public Square

Cultural Corridor Over-head Rail

Pedestrian Crossing

Historic Energy Bunker Public Park

The road into the city centre should have the corners of the main road addressed as gateway buildings which leads people into the town centre of the area. The large main road will have pedestrian crossings at several nodal points, as well as widening pedestrian walkways, bike paths and central reservations allows the pedestrian to not feel as overwhelmed by the vehicle traffic.

The cultural road into the city centre should have the corners of the main road addressed as gateway buildings which leads people into the town centre of the area. The large main road will have pestrian crossings at several nodal points, as well as widening pedestrian walkways, bike paths and central reservations allows the pedestrian to not feel as overwhelmed by the vehicle traffic.

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Hamburg - Rothenburgsort SBahn

Central Station

Rothenburgsort S-Bahn station is at the centre of the area, the town centre will benefit from the developed Train station. A public square will open the public realm as a more usable adaptable space. As well as new blocks being created in the form of a new town centre, the redevelopment of existing monument buildings into public buildings will increase the activity of people and make this a central node on the route through the area.

Rothenburgsort S-Bahn station is at the centre of the area, the town centre will benefit from the developed train station. Apublic square will open the public realm as a more useable adaptable space. As well as new blocks being created in the form of a new town centre, the redevelopment of existing monument buildings into public buildings will increase the attivitve of people and make this a central node on the route through the area.

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South Rothensburgsort

1.Bunker Heritage Centre 2.Sports Centre 3.Elb Park- Sports and Culture 4.Water Forum Museum 5.Children’s Park 6.War Memorial Centre 7.Transport Museum Extension

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Bunker Heritage Cente

By improving the public realm and refurbishing this historical bunker this site intends to become a historical attraction and feature for the residents of Rothensburgsort and visitors to the area.

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Bunker Gardens Rothensburgsot

Sports Centre

The disused land and buildings which are prime location next to the waterside and Elb park will occupy a new sports centre.

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Rothensburgsort Sports Facility

Elb Park

Currently Elb Park is a vacant site that isn’t used to its full potential. It is proposed to incorporate sports on one side of the park and arts and culture on the other. This will accompany and compliment the existing waterside arts pavilion.

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Entenwerder Sculpture Park

Water Forum Museum

The Water Forum is both a cultural and historical asset to Rothensburgsort. Refurbishments and innovative adaptations will draw people to a place which is both an educational and exciting place to visit for all ages.

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Wasserforum Hamburg

Transport Museum

An existing building will be home to a popular Transport museum that used to exist close by, giving people the opportunity to learn and interact with the historical background to the area.

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Transport Museum Hamburg

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1.School Buildings 2.Bullenhuserdamn Extensions 3.Garden Centre 4.Community Centre and Market Place 5.Boat Dock and Public Park 6.Retail Complex and Independent Stores

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Bullenhuserdamn School and Museum

Bullenhuserdam is a Historical School and a museum, we intend to extend this, making people more aware of its existence as well as improving the public realm in the Rose Garden.

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Bullenhuser Damm Memorial Museum

Market Place

We intend to implement a community centre and market place into this site for the residential side of Rothensburgsort. This will encourage public interaction and activity in what is, currently a secluded and unused park.

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Rothensburgsort North Gardens

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Appendix

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Costing

In the next 20 years the Green Network Plan intends to eliminate vehicles in Hamburg.

40% of Hamburg is made up from a variety of different green spaces, and by integrating and adding more throughout the city it is aimed that in 15 to 20 years everywhere will be able to be accessed by foot.

With our masterplan, we intend to support this plan by not only adding and reusing buildings, but improving public realm. This will ensure residents can enjoy a pleasant environment with a sustainable commute and at the same time increasing wealth in the area.

With the proposed development aiming to improve public realm and public facilities this will in turn strengthen the area and its economy. The development will drive up property prices and give higher value to the existing buildings.

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Precedents

Total Area

Total Cost

Cost

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New Build Plymouth School of Art Stormen Concert Hall Mailbox MixUse Leventis Gallary Espresso TNG Youth Mackenzie Place

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17,500.00 102,292.00 7,000.00 30.00 1,208.00 24.00

10.3m 38.1m 21m 30,000.00 3.5m 25,155.00

588.60 377.50 3,000.00 1,000.00 2,916.70 426.40

270.00 46.00 14,800.00

235,000.00 123,000.00 26m

2,673.90 2,673.90 1,756.80

24.00 1,500.00

50,000.00 50,000.00

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Refurbished Phipp Street, London Briddleston Museum Regent School Public Realm Mackenzie Place Provdence Place

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Environmental Strategy Materials - Similar to ‘sustainable construction of HafenCity’ the strategy relies on

most modern German waste water treatment plant is establish not far

several elements to develop a sustainable scheme.

from the site.

- Unused and derelict building have been reused to create a posi-

Waste strategy/recycling

tive change to the area, the reuse of existing materials is a key element

The reduction of waste should be considered for each new and restored

throughout the routes. Throughout the cultural corridor and the new town

building with in the masterplan, especially the pubic buildings. Making

centre there is a high degree of mixed use buildings proposed and to

residence away of how to reduce their waste for each development.

support the new cultural public elements, a high urban density has been

Supplying the residence with the correct facilities for waste and recycling

added to the existing large residential area.

to make it easier.

- Buildings will abide by the ‘German Sustainable Building Council

Green Route/Network

(DGNB)’ which acknowledges the local authorities sustainable goals, the

Hamburg held the title of European green capital in 2011 by the European

certification looks at healthy quality of life, lower costs for users and ben-

Commission, which will be maintained due to its pioneering environmental

efits for future generations, among other points.

efforts. The city has spent decades working to improve the quality of life

- New buildings in the masterplan will use sustainable materials as well as

for its residents whilst shrinking its ecological footprint.

locally sourced materials where possible.

The urban city centre is already well connected as we have pointed out

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communities obtained exclusively from ground water. The largest and

the overall idea of the urban design project is to connect the disconnected

- The site sits on the edge of the Rive Elb as well as having canals running

outer areas of the city. Residents in Hamburg can reach public transport

through the centre. The use of water in the strategy should be highly

roughly every 300 metres. There is a plan in the city to develop a ‘green

considered, by making the canal edges pedestrianised and introducing

network’ that will cover 40% of the city over the next 15-20 years,

public pavilions as well as addressing the park along the river, improves

connecting parks, playground and gardens through green pathways. This

the aesthetic quality of the water’s edge, by opening it to the public.

links in with the masterplan as the scheme creates a walking route through

- The larger buildings mostly in the cultural corridor and the town centre

green streets connecting public squares and parks. The additional green

will collect rainwater in harvesting systems on the roofs. Grey water

designed edges and parks will assist to alleviate flooding in the event

recycling will be across the site in water systems for non-drinkable uses.

of heavy rain fall and the flooding of the canals in the immediate area.

- The existing Water Forum in the south of the site exhibits information

Air Quality

about the historical water supply, modern water supply, conditions of

-Areas of the masterplan have been designed to minimise the dependence

water extraction and sanitation and treatment.

of vehicles as well as other areas making the pedestrian streets and bike

- Currently most of the drinking water for the city of Hamburg and the

lanes larger and lessening the amount of lanes of traffic. Helping to lessen

the amount of air pollution and attempting to help improve residence health and lifestyles, by encouraging walking and cycling, linking back to the city’s overall green network scheme. The development of a more pleasant arrival area of the train into the centre of the site, has been done with the hope that more people will use the transport networks and surrounding public spaces.

- Within the larger buildings mainly along the cultural corridor connection, biomass b=oilers and sustainable heating and cooling systems will be installed as an attempt to help reduce emissions.

- The reliant on the weather of Hamburg and as much natural resources as possible, will allow buildings mostly the smaller ones to take advantage of more natural heating and cooling systems.

-and sustainable heating and cooling systems will be installed as an attempt to help reduce emissions.

- The reliant on the weather of Hamburg and as much natural resources as possible, will allow buildings mostly the smaller ones to take advantage of more natural heating and cooling systems.

http://www.hamburgwasser.de/wasserforum.html [blueandgreentomorrow.com/features/sustainability-in-the-city-hamburggermany] http://www.dgnb.de/en/

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