Biotope City – construction manual for the green city of the future

Biotope City – construction manual for the green city of the future The greening of cities as an adaption strategy to urban heat islands becomes more and more important, not only in Austria but also abroad. Even though there are numerous studies, which proof the important effects of green infrastructure on dense urban areas, the greening of buildings is still underestimated compared to technological solutions. The implementation of green infrastructure is facing different challenges: high complexity in planning and implementation, a large number of stakeholders, contradictory legal definitions, technological issues, investments and maintenance. Based on the overall concept ‚Biotope City‘ a new district with about 1.000 residences on the former industrial area of Coca Cola in the city of Vienna is developed. Members of the project team (scientifically) accompany the project since the beginning. The project ‚Biotope City – construction manual for the green city of the future‘ offers the unique opportunity to do research on the development of a green district – from the first idea up to completion and occupation – and to work on the transferability of these experiences. T The project aims to generate components of a construction manual for the green city of the future, which is in line with reality, generalizable and transferable. To achieve this objective the project deals with the following topics: (1) quality management and scientific support of the development of the Biotope City district, (2) clarification of adjustment factors and restrictions concerning the engineering process, (3) analysis of the Biotope City as social environment and analysis of the challenges concerning the maintenance, (4) new problem-solving approaches for greening activities and (5) new problem-solving approaches for cycles of materials as well as (6) additional benefits of a Biotope City shown by (international) best practice examples. The applied project serves as a model. Based on the case study Coca Cola the aim is to develop an integral planning process that allows real estate developers and planners to implement a green district.