International Building Exhibition Emscher Park

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The International Building Exhibition Emscher Park ( IBA Emscher Park ) was a ten-year future program of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia to deal with the structural crisis in the northern Ruhr area . It began on April 21, 1989; its activity ended in 1999. It contributed significantly to a new self-confidence in the region.

It was initiated by the then North Rhine-Westphalian Minister for Urban Development, Housing and Transport, Christoph Zöpel , and the later managing director of the IBA, Karl Ganser , who had been working in the ministry under Zöpel since the early 1980s.

tasks

The task of this international building exhibition was to provide impetus for the economic change of an old industrial region in the northern Ruhr area, the Emscher region, with new ideas and projects in the urban, social, cultural and ecological areas . In this process of structural change, the IBA Emscher Park worked with many partners on a broad basis: with the municipalities, companies, associations, initiatives and citizens. 17 municipalities in the Ruhr area had joined the building exhibition: Duisburg , Oberhausen , Mülheim an der Ruhr , Bottrop , Essen , Gladbeck , Bochum , Gelsenkirchen , Recklinghausen , Herne , Herten , Castrop-Rauxel , Waltrop , Lünen , Dortmund , Kamen and Bergkamen .

Projects

In ten years of the IBA Emscher Park, around 120 projects are in the central work areas

developed and implemented.

Karl Ganser was the managing director .

A total of around € 2.5 billion was invested in the IBA projects, around € 1.5 billion in public funds and € 1 billion in private investments. According to other information, even five billion euros were invested.

The central innovations of the IBA Emscher Park include:

  • Circular economy in land consumption and in the building stock, in energy consumption and in water management,
  • Reconstruction of a centralized and outdated drainage system (Emscher system),
  • to design Europe's largest coherent project for the (re) construction of landscape with the Emscher Landscape Park,
  • to toast future locations with regional charisma and outstanding location quality on freed areas of the coal and steel industry,
  • to always rely on the quality of the building and good architecture in new construction and in the conversion of structural substance,
  • to give trend-setting impulses for the supply of lower income groups with affordable living space with the project "Simply build it yourself",
  • to preserve the evidence of a unique and independent epoch of industrial culture in this dimension and to place it in a new urban and landscape environment and to prepare it for new uses.

The IBA Emscher Park today

The traces of the IBA Emscher Park are still visible today. On the one hand the major industry cultural and natural infrastructure projects represent important places of recreation and culture, such as the Jahrhunderthalle in Bochum , the Gasometer in Oberhausen and the Landschaftspark Nord in Duisburg . But also in organizational terms, the supporting organization and the idea of ​​the IBA have been continued and are directly continued in the Route of Industrial Culture and in annual events such as ExtraSchicht or the Ruhrtriennale . The successful application of the Ruhr area for RUHR.2010 - European Capital of Culture would have been hardly conceivable without the shared experience and especially without the sites of industrial culture that have emerged.

literature

  • Karl Ganser : love at second sight. International Building Exhibition Emscher Park. Harenberg, Dortmund 1999, ISBN 3-611-00824-9
  • Roland Günter , Günter Mowe (photographer), Roland Göhre (illustrator): In the Valley of the Kings. A travel book on the Emscher, Rhine and Ruhr. (On behalf of IBA Emscher Park). Klartext, Essen 1994, 4th edition, continued and expanded after the IBA final, Essen 1999. ISBN 3-88474-044-X .
  • Peter Liedtke : Sculpture Emscher Park. Exhibition catalog of the Ludwig Galerie Schloss Oberhausen, Oberhausen 2001, DNB 1059781700 .
  • Christa Reicher, Thorsten Schauz: IBA Emscher Park. The housing projects 10 years later. Klartext, Essen 2010, ISBN 978-3-8375-0255-8 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.ruhrbarone.de/uber-zwanzig-jahre-iba-emscher-park-einen-burgermeister-furs-ganze-revier-und-eine-grose-burgerinitiative-interview-mit-christoph-zopel/
  2. ↑ http://www.planet-wissen.de/laender_eople/nordrhein_westfalen/innenhafen_duisburg/iba_emscher_park.jsp