How can single-family home neighbourhoods become future-proof?
18th Transformation Dialogue of the Federal Bauakademie Foundation
Single-family home neighbourhoods across many cities are undergoing a profound shift: populations are ageing, households are getting smaller, car dependency remains high, and land and resource consumption is significant. At the same time, these areas hold considerable potential. Existing houses and plots can be reused, extended, shared, retrofitted for energy efficiency, and reconfigured in diverse ways - turning monofunctional residential areas into more mixed and vibrant neighbourhoods.
Under the title “Rethinking Conversion: How Can Single-Family Home Areas Become Future-Proof?”, this transformation dialogue explores how these neighbourhoods and housing types can be developed in a more inclusive, diverse, and resource-efficient direction.
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Based on concrete case studies, experts from architecture, academia, civil society initiatives, and municipal practice will discuss approaches and perspectives for change.
Welcome
Dr. Elena Wiezorek, Director, Federal Bauakademie Foundation
Moderation
Kerstin Faber, Head of Programme, Federal Bauakademie Foundation
Guests:
Frederik Fischer, Neulandia creative agency
Prof. Nanni Grau, TU Berlin – Transformation of Architecture / Hütten + Paläste architects
Gerhard Greiner, HHS Planer + Architekten, President of the Chamber of Architects of Hesse
Johanna Kliegel, Housing Agency, City of Göttingen
The dialogue will also address how perceptions of the single-family home as a central place of living are changing. Can a house be more than the private shell of a nuclear family? What new forms of housing emerge when property, neighbourhood, care work, and living are no longer organised purely on an individual basis? And what support is needed to turn individual transitions into a broader, intentional transformation?
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Image: From leftover spaces to shared places: studio project TU Berlin by Rasmus Ehlers, Seida Feldheim, Oline Kuhlmann, and Marlene Wiesermann
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