green up your City - study on façade and green roofs in subsidized housing in Vienna
Abstract
Increasing urban densification and changes due to climate change pose new challenges for urban planning and architecture as well as for landscape architecture and landscape planning. The declared goal of the City of Vienna is to increase the quality of life in the developed urban area through integrated bundles of measures, including the greening of, for example, roofs and buildings is subsumed (Climate Protection Program of the City of Vienna). In particular, the "Urban Heat Island Strategy Plan Vienna" sees increasing the green share in the city as a central strategy for dealing with the challenges outlined above. Natural-based solutions such as façade and green roofs contribute to the well-being of residents and reduce the heat load, support air purification, increase biodiversity and the quality of life in the city, and not least have an urban-design effect. The aim of the study are surveys on the feasibility of facade and green roofs in subsidized housing. This includes: (1) the collection and analysis of good practice examples, (2) the recording of the success factors and obstacles in the planning and implementation as well as (3) the derivation of recommendations for the decision makers in the (housing-)policies.
- landscape plannig
- urban planning
- roof greening
- facade greening
- subsidezed housing
Project staff
Florian Reinwald
Dipl.-Ing. Dr.nat.techn. Florian Reinwald
florian.reinwald@boku.ac.at
Tel: +43 1 47654-85417
Project Leader
01.04.2018 - 31.12.2018
Doris Damyanovic
Assoc. Prof. Dipl.-Ing. Dr. Doris Damyanovic
doris.damyanovic@boku.ac.at
Tel: +43 1 47654-10041, 85415
Sub Projectleader
01.04.2018 - 31.12.2018
Roswitha Weichselbaumer
Dipl.-Ing. Roswitha Weichselbaumer
roswitha.weichselbaumer@boku.ac.at
Project Staff
01.04.2018 - 31.12.2018
BOKU partners
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