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

I find the various considerations about how to implement the desire for something of one's own and privacy on minimal spaces interesting. Single-family houses inherently have a limit due to setback areas, with all the side effects described above. This can still work better or worse; for example, I find it odd when greater proximity is compensated by higher fences (gabions, wire mesh fences...). Other types of houses work better then, possibly even better than row house blocks. Google, for example, “Das Hofhausprojekt”.

Best regards, Haus²

. “Das Hofhausprojekt”.

Brr creepy...

No, then I'd rather have a towel...

The problem with this style, I do not see in living in it, but the effect outward. Everyone is sitting behind a high wall, the public space surely looks accordingly.

Hofhaus... great, I like it a lot! Definitely the Leipzig Pfefingerstr. If the courtyard is big enough so it’s not just a light well. I find nothing more boring than lawn anyway, so that would suit me... maybe in the next life

I am a fan of terraced houses: if you give them 2 meters more in width, you gain a higher standard of living than if everyone has a 16-meter-wide plot.

If only the little word "if" weren't there...
Unfortunately, in reality, rows of terraced houses are designed precisely so that on fifteen meters of width two parcels can be pushed together. That the terraced house is not so bad cannot be shown because it cannot breathe deeply enough. The problem is not the concept itself, but only the typically chosen high density in reality.

Other types of houses work better then, possibly even better than rows of terraced houses.

The problem is the demand for single-family house plots: if there is ever a chance for contiguous development through a project-related development plan, in reality the land developer mostly still makes single-family house parcels out of it. And/or the municipalities are afraid of "alternative communes."

The market seems to work like this. Whoever wants to build wants a single-family house. Maximum semi-detached house. The plots for that go quickly. Whoever wants to buy wants an apartment. About 80-90 sqm. That also sells well. The terraced house is harder to sell for developers. They prefer to build apartments.