Stendal
2022-
Caroline Axelsen
Christian Cotting
David Gössler
Aimée Michelfelder
Jakob Wolters
und Jurek Brüggen
This sealed land loses its ecological function, ceasing to act as a biodiverse habitat or an infiltration area for water, further compounding environmental damage.
Despite these concerns, the detached single-family home remains the dream of 63% of Germans. How can this preference be reconciled with ecological responsibility? Is it possible to create a single-family house within an apartment building? Can existing prefabricated buildings be transformed to provide the qualities of a si ngle-family home while preserving their ecological value?
To explore these questions, AFEA developed a pilot concept in collaboration with local politicians and stakeholders for a vacant building owned by Wohnungsbau-Genossenschaft Altmark eV (WBGA) in Stendal. The building, a WBS70 prefabricated slab, represents the most prevalent typology of industrially constructed housing in Germany.
This innovative project seeks to reimagine the prefabricated slab as a sustainable solution that bridges the gap between the environmental urgency of preserving existing structures and the enduring appeal of single-family housing. It is an effort to ensure that Germany’s most cherished form of housing can have an ecological future.