Fit4NEB_Linz - Sommerfeld Ebelsberg: NEB-Neighbourhood development sustainable, aesthetic, participatory
Short Description
Starting point / motivation
In recent years, the City of Linz has steadily increased its ambitions with regard to sustainability and climate change adaptation in urban development. With the project "Fit4NEB_Linz - Sommerfeld Ebelsberg: NEB neighbourhood development sustainable, aesthetic, participatory", the city aims to further specify and apply these city-wide goals in the case of this urban development and redevelopment neighbourhood.
Objectives of sustainability, aesthetics and citizens participation shall be applied with exemplary, holistic bundles of measures and implementation projects, based on a NEB concept. Together with the city, the owners and developers of this major urban project are striving for a sustainable, functionally and socially mixed, lively neighbourhood development through re-use of existing buildings and construction of new space for a total of 5,000-6,000 residents and for offices, businesses and shops with together up to 3,000 employees.
The Sommerfeld Ebelsberg neighbourhood in Linz is prototypically suited in terms of size, location, structure and development history for the deepening and further evolution of the current plans towards a NEB-qualified neighbourhood. The aim of this preparatory project is to translate and operationalise the principles of the New European Bauhaus for the Sommerfeld Ebelsberg district in a locally adapted way.
Contents and goals
Innovative approaches and project ideas, which are to be explored in detail with the city and the stakeholders in greater depth, include:
- Strategically orientated governance to implement the shared NEB-vision for urban development and building culture in accordance with NEB quality criteria.
- Consistent mixed-use concept regarding functional and social mix, including social housing cost criteria and NEB design quality.
- Implementation of the proposed innovative mobility concept (city of short distances - low proportion of motorised private transport) by means of a detailed mobility services plan and mobility contracts.
- Contribution to the development of Sommerfeld Ebelsberg as climate-neutral neighbourhood through a sustainable energy concept in construction and operation which is also applying NEB design quality (e.g. with use of renewable raw materials such as timber construction).
- Establish integrative neighbourhood culture with the creation of high-quality public open spaces following a consistent design concept (quality of stay, climate change adaptation) and with the support of social integration through active promotion of community projects and targeted integrative/inclusive cultural projects.
Methods
In cooperation with the stakeholders, visions, strategies, priorities and implementation projects are to be developed in several workshops and work phases. The project should begin with a joint NEB vision and be successfully concluded with a NEB implementation plan including concepts for demonstration projects for submission to national and international funding programmes.
Expected results
Building on the planning and participation processes carried out to date, the aim is to
- specify and define precisely the design, social and ecological development principles for the neighbourhood according to NEB criteria and establish a NEB-quality assurance process.
- design concrete implementation projects with stakeholders and partners suitable for the participation in Horizon Europe tenders.
Project Partners
Project management
Dr.-Ing. Hans-Martin Neumann, urban development director and head of the PTU division, urban planner (AKB)
Project or cooperation partners
ÖIR GmbH
Contact Address
Magistrat der Landeshauptstadt Linz
DI Michael Lindinger
Hauptstraße 1-5
A-4041 Linz
Tel.: +43 (732) 7070 3169
E-mail: michael.lindinger@mag.linz.at