FRANKFURT: GREEN GLOBAL CITY

Soniya Joseph
Athira Nair
Tejasvi Nikam
Preshita Raorane

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 Frankfurt

• One of the largest cities in Germany, 52% of Frankfurt is

occupied by open green spaces like parks and
woodlands, and water bodies.
• It has concrete plans laid out for climate protection,
energy efficiency and water and nature conservation.
• It has a low emission zone of 110 square kilometers in
which vehicles causing high air pollution are not
allowed.
• Frankfurt hopes to reduce carbon emissions by 50
percent by 2030 and be 100 percent dependent on
renewable sources of energy by 2050.
• The city seems undeterred, and its ambitious goals
Frankfurt is the city of energy efficiency.
under the ‘Frankfurt Green City’ banner will surely boost
The Main metropolis comes with the largest
its impressive pursuit for sustainability. number of passive house apartments and
the most energy-efficient office buildings
and spaces in Germany.

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 FACTS ABOUT FRANKFURT

 Alpha global city, dynamic metropolitan region

 Financial centre and economic powerhouse of

Germany

 Highly skilled workforce, excellent universities

 Outstanding transportation infrastructure

 Diversity as a strength: International population

 SCOPE OF WORK

STRATEGIC GUIDELINE FOR THE NEXT 20 YEARS

• The Master plan provides a strategic guideline for the long-
term development of Frankfurt am Main.

STRENGTHEN FRANKFURT AS A GLOBAL BUSINESS

HUB
• Attract international enterprises and position the city as a
prime business location.

ENSURE AVAILABILITY OF HIGHLY QUALIFIED PEOPLE

• Make Frankfurt attractive for the creative elite -internationally
mobile, skilled, high quality people.

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Preamble: FRANKFURT FOR EVERYONE

 Frankfurt for Everyone

In order to attract the creative elite, Frankfurt must offer a high-quality urban
environment to all it’s citizens to live and work in.

 This involves other measures:

“Frankfurt for Everybody”
also means
“Sustainable Frankfurt”

Frankfurt has to become a sustainable, green city with reduced CO2

 Five focuses:
Includes “Sustainability aspects”
Focus 1: Quality of life

Focus 2: Science & Education

Focus 3: Economic power

Focus 4: Environmental efficiency

Focus 5: Metropolitan Region

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Frankfurt must improve it’s quality of life
• Conceiving a master plan for new housing in Frankfurt. Goal:
• Cultivating heritage of the traditional, mixed-use European city. “Keep citizens in the city”
• Developing more affordable housing in family-friendly and sustainable neighborhoods.
• Creating more and better public open space.
• Reclaiming traffic-occupied space for human habitat.

Overall concept, new living in Frankfurt

intervention space

large-scale intervention room outer

parts of the city

possible settlement corridors along

public transport - train paths

living space

impulse project dg bank skyscraper

potential green belt edge

Green target: Minimized green house gas emissions through higher residential and occupational
densities reducing commuter and leisure mobility.

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PROJECTS FOR THE ECOTROPOLIS

Frankfurt has got the potential to become an “ecotropolis”, an ecological

metropolis, of the 21st century.
•Developing innovative, sustainable neighbourhoods with energy efficient buildings.
•Improving public transport in the entire Rhine-Main region.
•Encouraging zero-emission forms of mobility –“Pedestrian and Bicycle City”.
•Networking city, parks and green belt.
•Developing a competence center for sustainable urbanism.

SUSTAINABLE NEIGHBORHOOD IN FRANKFURT PRAUNHEIM

•Renovation and modernization of an existing housing estate from the 1970’s.
•Integrated approach respecting ecologic, social, economic, energetic and
aesthetic criteria.
•Serve as an example for a large number of comparable housing developments in
Frankfurt.

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PROJECTS FOR CITY COMPATABLE
MOBILITY:
30 KM/H WITHIN THE CITY
• Speed Limit 30 km/h for all collector roads, even
with bus lines and trams.
• Important inner-urban arterial roads are to
remain 50 km/h
SHARED SPACE CONCEPT
•Develop transport space with quality of stay in
downtown and surrounding districts
•Transport user equality within “shared space”
areas, thus deceleration of traffic

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PROJECTS FOR A CYCLING-FRIENDLY
CITY:

CYCLING HIGHWAYS
•Convenient and safe high-speed cycling
paths
•Color coded paths and signage system to
greatly ease use
•Make cycling an attractive means of
transportation for mid-range distances (10-15
kilometers)
•Routes link inner city and regional
destinations

CYCLING STATIONS
•User groups: Commuters, tourists, citizens
•Services: Safe bicycle parking garages, bike
rental & shops.

Bike city Frankfurt: wheel express

Line network of public transport Ring line 1
North - south express route Ring line 2
East-west-express route Cycling knot
Regional express routes
PROJECTS FOR MORE FELT GREEN:

CORRIDORS TO A PROTECTED GREENBELT

AREA

•Improvement of connectivity and accessibility of the

green belt area.
•Increase the felt, perceived and experienced green
area: the “felt green”.

GREEN SPACE NETWORK

•Link existing green areas to a green network.
•Link local green spaces and parks to the system of
regional green areas and existing system of walking
trails.

Experiencing greenery in the city: corridors to the green belt

Green belt
Green corridors between districts and green bag / green bag and surrounding area
Green networking in the region

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Mission Statement for Urban development
in Frankfurt

In the course of time, the objectives of land-use and urban planning were set in
response to a series of different mission statements and ideals.

1. Planning and managing high-quality brownfield development

2. Promoting living in the city and making it affordable for all strata of society
3. Strengthening urban districts
4. Developing forms of mobility that are compatible with urban life
5. Fostering cooperation both within the region and with the region
6. Planning in partnership
7. Fostering architectural culture

The City of Frankfurt will examine existing objectives in urban development to assess
their future feasibility and advance the ideas illustrated in the mission statements for
the work of the City Planning Department.
Illustrated mission statements
1 Living
Living in Naxos
On the former property of the Naxos factory a new residential complex with 116 apartments is being built. Along
Wingertstraße the elongated structure with its grand balconies establishes a relationship with the listed Naxos
Hall in the court. Towards the road, crossbars divide the area into separate garden yards.
Along Wittelsbacher Allee the city block finds its completion in a conventional way.
Energy standard: passive house.
Architects: Stefan Forster Architekten, Frankfurt
2 Working

Unfallkasse Hessen
With the construction of this 3-liter house a unique and ground-breaking energy saving concept for office
buildings became reality. The building is remarkable for its exceptional energy efficiency, made possible by a
natural ventilation system with air boxes in its facade. Further components: use of environmental energy
(geothermal heat exchanger, geothermal probes) and cooling through concrete core activation in the ceiling.
Architects: B&V Braun Volleth Architekten, Frankfurt
3 Preserving and modernizing
Klassikstadt“ – Conversion factory site
The castle-like brick house in the Frankfurt district of Fechenheim was built in 1910 and formerly served
as a farm machine factory. The Klassikstadt“ („Classical City“) project transformed the building into a
center for vintage car aficionados. The architectural focal point of the complex is the atmospheric inner
courtyard, in combination with a horizontal and vertical space of interaction inside the building.

Architects: Lengfeld & Wilisch Architekten BDA, DA

4 Learning and administrating
Day-care centre Goldstein
The day-care center Goldstein unites the demand for an up-to date, energy-efficient and sustainable passive
house standard with the need for bright, friendly and natural rooms where children can play, learn and grow
up. The day-care centre is divided into a single-story entrance and connection building and a two-story
structure. The latter is orientated from north to south and fulfills the main functions.
Architects: AS&P - Albert Speer & Partner GmbH
Project management: Frankfurt Municipal Works Service
5 Supplying/Disposing
Wastewater treatment facility Niederrad
A special highlight is the visit to the historic clarifier system at
Wastewater treatment facility Niederrad. The system went on line
in 1887 and was the first of its kind in the former German Reich.
The four subterranean settling ponds, each 82 meters long, were
allocated for about 140.000 residents. The facility, which had
been extended between 1902 and 1904, was in operation until
1960. Today it is a protected historic monument.

Citizen Solar Power Plant Exhibition Hall

If there was a National Solar League, the City of Frankfurt would
be on its way to the top. In this success story the photovoltaic
system on the roof of exhibition hall 10 plays its part. The owners
are employees of Messe Frankfurt and citizens of Frankfurt.
Public participation in photovoltaic systems is a model the
municipal authorities want to apply even more intensely. Support
comes from Mainova AG and Sonnen initiative
6 Living in the neighborhood
Urban development at Rydberg
• The new district is one of the biggest urban
development projects in Germany.
• It covers an area of 266 hectare, one third of which is
earmarked for parks and public green space.
• The Sustainable urban development for 15.000
residents, 8.000 students and 3.000 work places is
based on a “city of short distances“ concept.
• Everything necessary can be reached on foot, and
many paths can be found to lead through nature. Two
urban metro lines connect Rydberg perfectly with the
inner city.
• Housing construction at Rydberg implements different
types of energy-efficient building, up to passive house
standard.
• A comprehensive system of rain water management
ensures that as much rain water as possible remains in
he natural water circulation.
7 Recreation
Regional park Rheine Main
• The countryside of the metropolitan area is being up
valued as recreation and discovery area.
• Right at the front door and within walking or biking
distance, there emerges a well-signposted network
of appealing paths, which make the manifold
remaining and sometimes even forgotten
landscapes of the region come alive.
• Agrarian cultivated landscapes, forests, Arcadian
fields, monuments of industrial culture, gardens,
parks or places of historical significance are waiting
there to be discovered.
• To this day, about 350 kilometers of Regional park
routes with 180 attractive excursion destinations
have been established.
• In the end, the planned network of routes is
supposed to have a total length of 1.250 kilometers.