Ekhart Hahn

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Ekhart Hahn (born July 14, 1942 in Stettin ) is a German architect , urban ecologist and university professor. He is best known for his research in the field of settlement ecology and is one of the pioneers of ecological urban planning and urban redevelopment.

biography

Ekhart Hahn studied architecture and urban planning from 1962 to 1969 at the Technical University of Berlin .

From 1975 to 1991 he was the project manager of various research projects on the subject of urban and settlement ecology at the Berlin Science Center (WZB). One focus of his research was East Asia, where he carried out several research trips.

At the same time, Ekhart Hahn has been a founding member and managing director of the “Arbeitsgemeinschaft Ökologischer Stadtumbau, Berlin” (1983–1990, since 1991 “Öko-Stadt - Society for Ecological Urban Development and Urban Research”) and implemented concepts and model projects in Berlin , Dresden and Leipzig .

research

Influenced by the future study " The Limits of Growth " published in 1972, Hahn coined the term and the research field of settlement ecology in 1979. His main work, "Theory and Action Concept Ecological Urban Redevelopment", published in 1993, deals with how urban structures and future urban development strategies can be adapted to the requirements of ecological compatibility at the industrial level . The starting point for this is that modern urban planning is stuck in an ecological dead end: Cities and settlements of the late 20th and early 21st centuries can only function if they import high levels of material and energy on the one hand and high levels of waste and pollutant exports on the other. The onset of massive urbanization , especially in East Asia, Latin America and Africa, so far unprecedented in history, leads directly to an ecological catastrophe through an unmanageable increase in energy, material, water, soil and landscape consumption.

The “Theory and Action Concept Ecological Urban Redevelopment” takes into account technical as well as socio-economic and socio-individual solutions and measures to overcome these challenges. The starting point is a consideration of the city ​​quarters as a level of action that is most likely to be shaped and manageable for the people concerned. The theory describes eight ecological orientations, a concept for local eco-stations, a strategy for ecological district development and a working aid for dealing with sector-specific planning and administrative departments.

University teaching

Ekhart Hahn began his teaching activities in 1998 as a substitute professor at the Technical University of Dortmund , where he became honorary professor for ecological urban and spatial planning in 2002. Since 1999 he has also been a visiting professor at the School of Technology and Science at the University of Aalborg.

Since 2000 he has participated in various seminars and lectures in Japanese universities ( Todai University , Hosei University , University of Kyoto , Kobe University , University of Chiba Prefecture).

Since 2007 he has supervised the master's course in ecological building and since 2015 the master's program Architecture and Environment in the WINGS distance learning course at the University of Wismar .

Works

Eco City Wünsdorf

In 2015 Ekhart Hahn initiated the Eco City International Campus Wünsdorf project . The Eco City is the vision of a sustainable, CO 2 -neutral future and education city, which is to be built on a sub-area of ​​the fallow Soviet military areas in Wünsdorf , approx. 50 km south of Berlin. The aim is to build a training city for up to 10,000 trainees from the EU and global crisis areas. The trainees are trained in all topics related to the development of sustainable cities and should be enabled to initiate new Eco Cities worldwide, especially in crisis regions torn by war and the climate. The project is based on Hahn's “Theory and Action Concept Ecological Urban Redevelopment”.

Since 2017, the project idea has been supported by an interdisciplinary team of renowned landscape planners, architects, urban ecologists and other experts, including Herbert Dreiseitl, Joachim Böttcher, Joachim Eble and Rolf Disch.

The project has received increased public attention since 2018 and has already been published in several national and international daily newspapers and magazines. A prominent supporter of the project idea is the German-Austrian actress Eva Mattes .

Further

  • Suzuka City, Nagoya (2015): As-One Community with urban Farming Park and ECO-Station
  • Potsdamer Platz, Berlin (1991–1993): First urban ecological model project for a central business district; Master plan: Richard Rogers, London
  • Block 6, Berlin (1983–1992): First integrated inner-city water concept
  • Moritzplatz, Berlin (1986–1991): First urban ecological district concept, theory development and practical model project

literature

  • Ekhart Hahn: Theory and action plan for ecological urban redevelopment. Peter Lang GmbH, Berlin 1993, ISBN 3-631-46007-4 .
  • Report on Ekhart Hahn: Revitalizing the local. In: Evolve magazine for awareness and culture. No. 19/2018, pp. 50-53.
  • Roland Mischke: City of self-sufficiency in the sand of Brandenburg. In: Die Welt am Sunday, June 16, 2019.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ icec wünsdorf eV: Eco City Wünsdorf project folder . Ed .: icec wünsdorf eV Berlin June 2019, p. 7 ( eco-city.net [PDF]).
  2. ↑ icec Wunsdorf eV: Eco City Wünsdorf. icec wünsdorf eV, accessed on October 26, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Frank Pechhold: Eva Mattes supports the model city project. MAZ Märkische Allgemeine Zeitung, October 17, 2018, accessed on October 26, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Hahn, Ekhart
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect, urban ecologist and university lecturer
DATE OF BIRTH July 14, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Szczecin