Manfred Hegger

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Manfred Hegger (born May 28, 1946 in Korschenbroich ; † June 29, 2016 ) was a German architect and university professor .

Life

Hegger attended a mathematical and natural science high school in Mönchengladbach . After graduating from high school and doing a construction internship, he studied architecture at the University of Stuttgart from 1967 , planning theory at the London School of Economics and systems engineering at the Technical University of Berlin . After graduating, he worked in a planning office in Kassel. Since 1980 he has been running the HHS Planer + Architects office in Kassel together with his wife Doris Hegger-Luhnen and Günter Schleiff . In 1990 the sister company EUROLABORS was founded from this office.

Mont Cenis Academy

Hegger became internationally known in the 1990s. Together with the French architects Françoise-Hélène Jourda and Gilles Perraudin, he realized the Mont Cenis training academy on the site of the former Mont Cenis colliery in Herne - Sodingen , a project of the Emscher Park International Building Exhibition .

In 2001 he received a call to the Technical University of Darmstadt , where he developed the field of design and energy-efficient building. In 2007 and 2009 he won the Solar Decathlon with the students of the Technical University of Darmstadt . He previously held teaching positions at the Universities of Stuttgart, Hanover and Kassel and at Queens College in Belfast . In 2014 he retired .

Manfred Hegger was the spokesman for the cooperation working group of the Federation of German Architects (BDA) , the GdW Federal Association of German Housing and Real Estate Companies and the German Association of Cities . In addition, he was director of the program “Sustainable Architecture of the Future” of the Union Internationale des Architectes UIA , member of the Action Plan “Sustainable Building and Construction”, since 2003 of the United Nations Environmental Program UNEP and since 2008 of the Global Agenda Council on the Future of Sustainable Construction World Economic Forum . Since 2004 he has been advising the European Union on the “Sustainable Construction Methods and Technologies” program.

Hegger has received numerous national and international recognitions for his projects. He was considered a pioneer of sustainable and energy-efficient construction. In 2007 he was a co-founder of the German Sustainable Building Council (DGNB) , its president from 2010 to 2013 and honorary member since 2016. In 2015 he was able to complete the world's largest energy-plus building in Hamburg with his active house.

Manfred Hegger was married to the architect Doris Hegger-Luhnen. The marriage gave birth to a son.

Teaching

  • Lecturer at the University of Stuttgart, 1973–1990
  • Lecturer at the University of Kassel, 1977–1979
  • Lecturer at the University of Hanover, 1979–2001
  • Lecturer at the Center for Infrastructure Planning at the University of Stuttgart, 1984–2000
  • Honorary professor at the University of Hanover, 1993–2001
  • Visiting Professor at Queens College Dublin, 1996
  • Visiting professor at the University of Kassel, 2000
  • Professor at the Technical University of Darmstadt. Department of Design and Energy Efficient Building, 2001–2014

honors and awards

Fonts

  • Vital architecture. Tradition, projects, tendencies of a culture of ordinary building. 1988.
  • Living and building apartments. (Accompanying volume for the exhibition of the Baden-Württemberg Chamber of Architects in the House of Architects) 1993.
  • (with Johannes Busmann ): Mont-Cenis. Lively architecture. Müller + Busmann, Wuppertal 2001.
  • Building material atlas. Detail Verlag, 2005.
  • Energy atlas. Detail Verlag, 2007.
  • elife .: Life cycle assessment and optimization of repair processes in residential construction, 2008.
  • Sunny times. Solar Decathlon House Team 2007. Müller + Busmann, Wuppertal 2008.
  • Green houses. Single-family houses, sustainable, ecologically energy-efficient. Georg DW Callwey, Munich 2009.
  • Research project energy: base .: Solar Decathlon 2007, 2009.
  • Sunny prospects. The surPLUSHome of team germany for the Solar Decathlon 2009. Müller + Busmann, Wuppertal 2010.
  • Research project energy: shell .: Solar Decathlon 2007 - Team Germany, 2010.
  • Research project energy: label .: Solar Decathlon 2007. Holistic evaluation of a plus energy house, 2010.
  • Housing value barometer. Recording and evaluation system for sustainable living quality, 2010.
  • Warming and cooling. Energy concepts, principles, systems. Birkhäuser Verlag, Basel 2011.
  • (with Caroline Fafflok, Johannes Hegger and Isabell Passig): Aktivhaus. The basic work. Georg DW Callwey, Munich 2013.
  • Basics materiality. Birkhäuser Verlag, Basel 2014.
  • Active town house , 2014.
  • benefit E - building-integrated solar-active systems. Strategies to remove technical, economic, planning and legal barriers, 2016.

literature

  • Johannes Busmann (Ed.): Sustainable Architecture. Hegger Hegger Schleiff Architects. Müller + Busmann, Wuppertal 2013.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Obituary by Manfred Hegger (Technische Universität Darmstadt) In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung of July 7, 2016
  2. ↑ Manfred Hegger , Bundesstiftung Baukultur , accessed on July 13, 2016
personal data
SURNAME Hegger, Manfred
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect
DATE OF BIRTH May 28, 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH Korschenbroich
DATE OF DEATH June 29, 2016