1. InitiativeWhere does transformation begin? Often with a local spark—a person, a place, a moment of tension or possibility. AFEA initiates and supports processes that question the status quo, create alliances, and set change in motion.
2. ConceptIdeas are fragile—but they’re also where everything begins. In this field, AFEA develops spatial strategies, narratives, and formats that translate complex realities into coherent, place-based concepts. We prototype futures, and invite others to shape them with us.
3. Construction
We see building as more than the final step—it’s part of a larger choreography. AFEA supports implementation processes that are reversible, local, and circular. From material cycles to social ones, we think construction anew.
4. ResearchOur work is driven by curiosity. We ask: What can rural spaces teach us? What rituals, methods, and models are worth reimagining? AFEA’s research is open-ended, transdisciplinary, and always in dialogue with practice.
5. Consulting
How can ecological, economic, and social goals align without compromise? We offer strategic guidance and technical expertise—from life cycle assessments to funding applications—always tailored to the context, and grounded in long-term thinking.
Research 4.3
Platten-Bau
2025-
Case study: Einfamilienhaus-Haus
While nearly two million housing units sit vacant across Germany, major cities face a deficit of nearly two million affordable homes. Germany does not lack housing; its housing stock is simply in the wrong place.
Platten-Bau explores this imbalance by treating vacant prefabricated housing as a material reservoir for new urban housing. Instead of demolishing WBS 70 buildings, the project investigates how existing concrete elements can be dismantled, transported and reassembled where housing is needed.Combined with bio-based construction systems, the reused components form new configurations, tested through mapping, deconstruction studies, connection details and a 1:1 prototype.
Contact
AFEA Association For Ecological Architecture
Gotzkowskystraße 33
10555 Berlin
Kirchplatz 6
39615 Werben (Elbe)
mail@afea.site
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Current Team
Jurek Brüggen
Jalma Fiolka
Hannes Herbst
Patrick Holzer
Mirko Kubein
Cintia Macuka
Aimée Michelfelder
Caterina Ricci
Hannah Titz