- Einfamilienhaus-Haus
- Stendal, 2022-
- Proposal to the municipality and
- local housing cooperative
Concerns about the climate and biodiversity are countered by the dream of the detached single-family house, which is still cherished by more than 63% of Germans. How can these positions be reconciled? Can there be a single-family house in an apartment building - a single-family house? And - to return to the starting point - can existing prefabricated buildings be converted to offer all the qualities of a single-family house? Can the Germans' most popular form of housing have an ecological future?
With the support of local politicians and stakeholders, AFEA developed an exemplary preliminary plan for a building in Stendal owned by the Wohnungsbau-Genossenschaft Altmark eV (WBGA) that will be vacant in the future. The building is a WBS70 type of prefabricated housing. This housing series constitutes the largest share of industrially constructed prefabricated housing in Germany. The project is a proposal for a new type of building between a detached house and an apartment block - the Einfamilienhaus-Haus.