RWTH Aachen University | 2023 Integrated project Ⅱ | M.Sc. Transforming City Regions | Supervisor Ceren Sezer
Mayu Masuda | Shubhrata Naik | Abhinav Bhardwaj | Arwa Abdelhady | Cemre Bingöl
Introduction
Location
Aachen is locating in western city in Germany, which has a good access to several countries. In the center of the city, students from Universities in Aachen is occupying major part of the population. According to statistics, more than 15 percentage of the population is international students, especially in younger generation.
Male
15 %
Approx.
Female 90 80
Citizens, students from foreign country
Non-German German
70 60
Current research project on Recycling
50
Contribution to the SDGs from many aspects, also ongoing project of recycling
40 30 20 10 0
4000 3000 2000 1000 0 1000 2000 3000 4000 Population (Stadt Aachen, 2020)
Blades2Build - Recycle, Repurpose and Reuse End-Of-Life Wind Blade Composites EKaBio - Energy-efficient cascade utilization of biogenic waste EnEWA - Energy savings in paper production by tapping the value chains of recovered paper ... (RWTH Aachen Website)
Land use
Vegetation distribution
Mobility
Water distribution
Waste facilities and University
Topograph
Stakeholder
Concept
Threat regarding SDGs
Strength regarding SDGs
Population
University city
Approx.
Abundant Vegetation
Social segregation It was my first time to know about RWTH recycling project, student interesting!
20 %
More than 50,000 students
There is still plenty room for improving the awareness towards recycling system
non EU citizens
total 245,885
Campus Melaten is Recycling system too far for me to visit differs so much from my country student Resident non EU citizens
EU citizens
Community center and Research centrum for recycling
Public park
Waste sorting is not well working There is still problem regarding waste management
There should be some motivation to walk long distance between Campus Melaten and Aachen mitte
(interview, 2023)
student non EU citizens
people with an different cultural background may be used to different perceptions of the impact of sustainable development and this difference affects the daily behavior of waste sortingce(2019. Coralie H
SWOT
User experience
Green and Mixed use infrastructure
Mobility
Blue infrastructure -Rain water management -Gray water management
Interactive recycling hub
Master plan
Vision
Concept
Recycling center
Enhance the awareness Increase the interest
1b
Enhancing attachment to community
Building knowledge
Building community
visiting recycling museum
Workshop using recycled solid waste
Method Self-brought waste observation tour could be ticket to enter with sorting belt the recycling center and join workshop
1a
1c
Location
Make a street furniture by themselves and from self-brought material
2 Recycling center
3
4
5
6 1 Recycling center
a. plastic b. paper c. textile 2 Museum for Recycling 3 Open Museum for Recycling 4 Coomunity and Research center 5 Public park 6 Resting place with pavillion with reused vegetation 0
50
100m
Open museum in the park
Museum about recycling with glass facade and existing building
Resting place under the wood pavilion