Hamburg ECO City // Hamburg // Germany

The historic German Hamburg-Harburg harbour has announced this project. The project consists of a redevolopment of the old harbour, to a ultramodern sustainable city quarter. The plan is designed by Tec Architecture together with the international engineer company, ARUP. This project focuses mainly on sustainability and one could say, that this is perhaps the most sustainable development project at the moment (it scores excellently on all three of the new green building rating systems - LEED, BREEAM and DGBN).

Through the use of modern green technologies, environmentaly-friendly building materials and efficient facades, this project is expected to save the inhabitants of this new city quarter up to 30% on electric and heating consumption. Wind energy will aid the inhabitants to achieve this, by supplying the ECO City with 10% of its estimated electric energy consumption. 

Tec Principal Sebastian Knorr explains: “ECO CITY represents a synergistic approach to urban development. By working in close cooperation with all the stakeholders and taking into consideration the immediate environmental context of the project, we’ve created a different type of sustainable, creative-industrial complex. We hope that iconic ECO CITY project becomes a model for sustainable urban development.”