The young architects no longer see a future in single-family homes. Existing buildings are to be renovated and building gaps filled. New development areas are OUT anyway :rolleyes:.
Well, whether he now represents the age group of his profession remains to be seen.
An architect can certainly have his private opinion, but ultimately he makes a living advising clients and planning
their wishes – not talking them out of them. And the single-family home will still be at the top of the list in 30, 40 years, I am firmly convinced of that. If an architect came at me like that, it would remain at the initial consultation.
There are reasons why the majority of the population prefer this type of housing and are willing to go financially to the pain threshold for it.
Times will also come again when less area is sealed because more (good!) existing properties are available on the open market. By the way, the truth also is that in many places where a lot of building is currently happening, very little to nothing happened in terms of new construction for years before. Our new development area, for example, was developed in 2019, the predecessor area in 2000. In between, both the population and the number of socially insured jobs have grown significantly. Wanting the booming business and income tax revenues but not providing settlement areas because of climate and such simply doesn’t work. Without these new development areas, by the way, the housing market would look even bleaker than it already does, because as a rule, for each new single-family home an apartment somewhere becomes available.
That some of those who have already secured their sheep safely view all this quite differently is of course clear.