We are committed to ensuring that urban districts develop in a positive and socially acceptable manner. Social diversity, diverse living and working arrangements and an openness to the surrounding neighborhood make our ensembles particularly attractive - and not just for the residents.
Our recipe is housing in all price ranges with offers for every age group and solutions for a wide range of housing needs.
Our district and campus developments combine housing, educational institutions, gastronomy, urban production and modern working environments. Our approach is the 15-minute city.
Our ensembles respond to their surroundings, open themselves up to the neighbourhood and contribute to its attractiveness with a wide range of offerings.
We develop buildings that have less negative impact on our climate and have a positive impact on the residents and the environment. CO2-neutral operation, healthy and green buildings and smart app control make them sustainable, healthy and comfortable.
All our investments are from 01.01.2021 CO2-neutral in operation. We achieve this through minimal energy consumption of our buildings, a renewable supply and our own CO2-Compensation for all unavoidable emissions.
We are greening the roofs and facades with the aim of compensating for at least 100% of the built-up area and thus preserving biodiversity.
Our URBAINITY building app provides information about energy consumption, enables control of the building and offers a wide range of community applications. In interior spaces, we consistently use low-pollutant, certified materials.
Our developments are based on a sense of community and make use of the advantages of the community. We think from the perspective of the target group and offer a wide range of options for sharing and meetings as well as for flexible living and working.
In our buildings, we share what is not needed all the time or would be too expensive for each individual. The offering ranges from coworking space to mobility options and guest apartments.
Space and offers for the community are an integral part of our building developments. Our users can meet, exchange ideas and be inspired. We want people to identify with the building and for it to become a real home.
Our work environments and production units enable flexible and agile working. They offer space for entrepreneurial spirit and growth as well as a motivating environment. Here, life and work can intertwine.
Contact us if you share our “city improvement” approach and are interested in working with us.
Winterstraße 4 - 8
22765 Hamburg
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"Urbainity Bridge combines future-proof workplaces, laboratories and training places on one campus. On construction sites 1 to 3, state-of-the-art laboratory units meet a technical training academy and specialized medical specialists as well as other flexible office and commercial spaces. Creative new work studios, roof gardens and a food court create a special identity and promote community. The campus will open up to the residential area opposite and be a driver for modern workplaces at the Barmbek site. The newly sealed areas will be compensated as much as possible by a dense green zone, intensive green roofs and green facades on the west side. With CO² neutrality in operation, CO² reduced construction and the use of low-pollutant and healthy building materials, we have set ourselves ambitious sustainability goals. The overall building construction is planned as a timber hybrid construction. The structural concrete components are designed with statically reduced load-bearing systems. We are aiming for at least a DGNB certification in the Gold standard.
LOCATION
Hamburg Barmbek
KEY DATA
13.300 gross floor area, 900 jobs, timber hybrid construction
INVESTOR
URBAINITY Group
ARCHITECTS
URBAINITY architecture
ENERGIE:
100% renewable energies
BUSINESS
Shared event space, roof terraces, rear delivery, new work areas
CO²
Use of certified paints, adhesives and sealants
TECH
CO² reduced production
"Urbainity Bridge combines future-proof workplaces, laboratories and training places on one campus. On construction sites 1 to 3, state-of-the-art laboratory units meet a technical training academy and specialized medical specialists as well as other flexible office and commercial spaces. Creative new work studios, roof gardens and a food court create a special identity and promote community. The campus will open up to the residential area opposite and be a driver for modern workplaces at the Barmbek site. The newly sealed areas will be compensated as much as possible by a dense green zone, intensive green roofs and green facades on the west side. With CO² neutrality in operation, CO² reduced construction and the use of low-pollutant and healthy building materials, we have set ourselves ambitious sustainability goals. The overall building construction is planned as a timber hybrid construction. The structural concrete components are designed with statically reduced load-bearing systems. We are aiming for at least a DGNB certification in the Gold standard.
LOCATION
Hamburg Barmbek
KEY DATA
13.300 gross floor area, 900 jobs, timber hybrid construction
INVESTOR
URBAINITY Group
ARCHITECTS
URBAINITY architecture
ENERGIE:
100% renewable energies
BUSINESS
Shared event space, roof terraces, rear delivery, new work areas
CO²
Use of certified paints, adhesives and sealants
TECH
CO² reduced production
From 2021, all projects in which we invest ourselves will be built to the highest efficiency standards. We meet at least the KFW 40 standard. Where possible, we also implement the KFW 40 Plus standard for even greater energy efficiency. In addition, our buildings are supplied to the maximum possible extent from renewable energy sources. Since even very efficient buildings supplied with renewable energy usually still have a certain residual amount of CO2 emit, we go one step further: We compensate for this unavoidable share through external solar projects, in which we also invest at the same time. These are photovoltaic systems that cannot be located in cities due to space constraints, but are planned as open-space systems. With the electricity produced there, we then balance out the remaining demand of our buildings and thus achieve climate-neutral operation.
The development of building envelopes today requires new strategies. The insulation thicknesses and the insulation material must fit the overall concept of the building construction. We develop the optimal solution for each project in terms of efficiency, sustainability, space requirements and cost-effectiveness. The aim is always to minimize energy requirements in accordance with the best possible KfW efficiency house standard in order to supply the building with as little energy as possible.
We want to cover the remaining energy requirements of our buildings with as much renewable energy as possible. To do this, we use the area on or around the building shell for photovoltaic systems to generate electricity locally. Instead of gas or oil heating, we use heat pumps or local or district heating with a high proportion of renewable energy and obtain general and system electricity exclusively as green electricity.
Since even in highly efficient buildings, especially in inner-city areas, the amount of renewable energy that can be generated is usually not sufficient to cover the remaining CO2emissions, we compensate for this unavoidable share. To do this, we determine the remaining annual CO2emissions from the building's heating, cooling, hot water and electricity supply and feed in the same amount of renewable electricity from open-space systems. With our investment in these systems and the process certified by an independent body, we ensure the climate-neutral operation of our properties.
One of our examples of climate-neutral residential buildings. More details in the project overview under PROJECTS.
Our concept for climate-neutral office buildings. Further information can be found in the project overview under PROJECTS.
Green roofs and facades, raised gardens on roofs or urban gardening are key goals in all of our projects. Our green spaces create a special atmosphere, increase biodiversity and ensure a better microclimate. Our intention is to balance the built-up area of the property 100% with horizontal and vertical green spaces.
Roofs offer valuable building levels that can be used in a variety of ways: for setting up solar panels, as additional recreational areas and for greening concepts. In combination, these uses complement each other perfectly, creating diverse roof landscapes and roof gardens with added value for people and nature.
Regardless of whether it is a wall- or floor-based system, the decisive factor for us is that the greening concept becomes part of the architecture and contributes permanently to the design of the building through intelligent supply systems. We therefore develop automatically supplied climbing systems and plant troughs, which become a core idea of our architectural concept.
We have developed our own greening concept for our balconies. The parapets are covered with a special mesh fabric that provides privacy for the residents by planting climbing plants. Irrigation and fertilization are controlled centrally.
Our app, which was specially designed for the URBAINITY buildings, enables convenient control of the buildings, visualizes energy consumption and offers numerous community functions. Whether you want to turn up the heating on the way home, open the door for the delivery person while you are out and about or ask your neighbor for an egg - everything is easily possible. And the convenient control can also lead to a significant reduction in energy consumption.
Our residents can connect with their neighbors via their own group and find out news from the area. A digital apartment file contains all the important information about your own apartment and defects can be quickly reported to the property management via the app. In addition, rarely used equipment, such as a drill, can be borrowed via the app.
Our door intercom system is also smart: you can use the app to see who is ringing the bell from anywhere. This means you can communicate with the delivery service, for example, and open the front door even if no one is at home.
The room temperatures can be easily adjusted via the app, whether from the sofa or on the go. Programmable scenarios enable individual automatic control of each heating zone. In addition, the app provides a constantly updated overview of energy consumption for hot water, heating and electricity.
Healthy living starts with the use of low-pollutant building materials. In our own investments, we use certified low-emission parquet adhesives, wall paints and seals in interior spaces, thus ensuring that the rooms are not contaminated with pollutants. In addition, mechanical ventilation systems ensure a constant exchange of room air and thus a healthy indoor climate - at all times, automatically and comfortably in the background.
"The Refugio" is located directly on a 30-meter-high cliff on the steep coast in the southeast of Mallorca. The two-storey cliff house is a reduced, white cube that is deliberately closed off from the street. The facade serves as a neutral canvas, providing a suitable background for four tall palm trees. The main orientation of the house opens up to the sea through a seven-meter-high hall with an open gallery. The views and the sunlight are directed by wooden shutters that can be moved like an accordion on the upper floor. Local natural stones, lime plaster, white concrete and the striking wooden elements create a relaxed, Mediterranean architectural composition. The cubic architecture of the building provides a framework for traditional architectural details that have been reinterpreted.
LOCATION
Cala Pi, Mallorca
KEY DATA
300 m² gross floor area
BUILDER
Personal
achtung! is a communications agency for the hyper-connected reality with its headquarters in Hamburg Falkenried, which we have been supporting since 2004. For further expansion of the headquarters in the Falkenried area, Urbainity architecture developed new comfortable office spaces for the areas of management, finance and IT. Concentrated work is made possible by the slightly tinted glass partition walls, and at the same time the open coffee bar offers informal exchange between employees.
LOCATION
Falkenried-Areal Hamburg
KEY DATA
500 m² gross floor area
BUILDER
Agency attention!
In the middle of the historic Münzviertel, this apartment building will create 25 compact and well-designed new apartments in Hamburg. The architecture creates a connection between Hamburg's brick architecture on the street side and sustainable greening concepts for climate adaptation on the courtyard side. High proportions of photovoltaic panels, maximum building efficiency and a dedicated building app make an important contribution to climate protection and at the same time offer a high level of living comfort. Lovingly developed details and special material compositions, right down to the selection of the bricks used from Petersen Tegl, make URBAINITY JUNGLE a valuable one-off.
LOCATION
Repsoldstraße 48, Hamburg-St. Georg/ Münzviertel
KEY DATA
1.847 m² GFA, Efficiency House 40, CO2-neutral,
25 residential units
BUILDER
URBAINITY GROUP GmbH
