Current building culture and energy-saving ordinance-compliant new development areas

New development areas and how they look nowadays due to the Energy Saving Ordinance etc...

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

In 2006 everything still started quite reasonably. In the end, there are now about 500 houses. The interesting thing is, every year the plots became smaller, but the houses built on them always got bigger.

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








Now in 2017, about four construction phases later, we have a picture like this:



There wasn’t really a development plan there. Practically everything that could be pulled out of the drawer was allowed to be built.

OT: I would get claustrophobic with these plots. The best ones have almost exclusively shade...

Merging and shifting didn’t go completely smoothly but it’s okay...
Regards Mycraft

I see it the same way, but what can you do if you don't have a choice? Keep renting an apartment? I could imagine that some of those who live there would also prefer a bit more distance (and therefore more sun)...

I see it the same way, 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 then almost only pay for the land + demolition costs and end up with a reasonably large plot - in our case even somewhat too large with 1,085 m².

When I see such battery cages, it’s too much for me as well. But what can you do.

I’m well aware of that, the land prices in my homeland are easily 20 times those here. But yes, I wouldn’t move into an infill lot there, no matter what the alternative looks like. So, enough OT

[emoji33]This is terrible... these two-story buildings in rows. The development plan decides on two stories, and every builder happily constructs some kind of standard villa... I can't really call any of them nice.

Edit: I have to correct myself: bottom left shows that the development plan also allows one story ... and yet they all build mainstream [emoji23]

Who would voluntarily build 1.5 stories when two are allowed?
„In Reihe und Glied“ means „adjacent to a street.“ This alignment results from a shared street and a plot size that leaves no choice for the positioning of the house.

Otherwise, I think that's still acceptable. Look at settlements by developers where the same house is repeated 20 times next to each other. I find that strange again.