summaery2021: Projects

New Urban Approaches for a smarter and healthier Thuringia

Project information

submitted by
Shimin Huang

Co-Authors
Alice Irizarry, Alina-Andreea Miclos, Andrei-Bogdan Dumitru, Asli Suberker, Bahar Melisa Yildiran, Dicle Varsak, Hildegarde Allain, Hiwot Girma Manaye, Irem Calisir, Johanna Knigge, Lakshit Chawla, Mariana Kuwabara, Nursultan Tynchtykbek uulu, Renata Shaikhutdinova, Sarah Büsing

Mentors
Prof. Dr. -Ing. Bernd Nentwig, Shimin Huang M.Sc.

Faculty:
Architecture and Urbanism

Degree programme:
Integrated Urban Development and Design (Master of Science (M.Sc.))

Type of project presentation
Exhibition

Semester
Summer semester 2021

attractive to children


Contributors:
Landratsamt Gotha - Amt für Bauverwaltung und Kreisentwicklung, Die Verwaltungsgemeinschaft Fahner Höhe, Gierstädt, Die Stadt Friedrichroda, Die Gemeinde Bad Tabarz

Project description

This semester project is based on the EU missions 2021 and aims to develop future urban solutions for a more inclusive, healthier, and smarter state of Thuringia by five groups of master students from various study programs: Architecture, Media Architecture, Integrated Urban Development and Design.

Taking the current rurban development challenges into consideration, the rural district of Gotha (Landkreis Gotha) has been taken as a pioneer region. Two subprojects have been developed over a semester period in the rural district of Gotha with their own characters.

Subproject 1 is located in Fahner Höhe and focus on a rurban transformation of a traditional fruit production area. In this subproject, students were trying to first identify the current rurban problems by researching and through some private fieldtrips to Gierstädt, visiting the Fahner Frucht GmbH and sales cooperative of Fahner Obst. Having done research on rurban morphology and understood the needs of the residents as well as the employees in Gierstädt, five groups of students came up with five design proposals for intensifying the local agriculture development in fruits farming and distribution.

Subproject 2 is about tourism development in Bad Tabarz and Friedrichroda with the local 'KUR-tradition'. In this subproject, students were experimenting how one can integrate the five elements of 'Kneipp' concept into facilitating local tourism experience.

Email: shimin.huang[at]uni-weimar.de

Files and presentations

Exhibition Location / Event Location

  • – ONLINE –, https://gather.town/invite?token=6I9Xdq2V
  • – ONLINE –, https://gather.town/invite?token=6I9Xdq2V
  • – ONLINE –, https://gather.town/invite?token=6I9Xdq2V
  • – ONLINE –, https://gather.town/invite?token=6I9Xdq2V

Events

Online Exhibition New Urban Approaches for a smarter and healthier Thuringia

Welcome to our 24/7 online exhibition! Here you can discover 10 project-proposals by 5 groups of students. Feel free to leave your questions, comments or ideas on the Q&A boards in each project room. Our students will gladly answer your questions and exchange ideas with you during the Live Chat from 10:00-16:00 on 16.07.21. If you are to visit our online exhibition outside of Live Chat hours, please also feel free to use a webcam and a headset so that you can talk to others, if possible :)

  • Begin: 16:00 pm
  • End: 07/18/2021 18:00 pm
  • Location: To visit our 24/7 online exhibition, please click here: Um unsere 24/7 Online-Ausstellung zu besuchen, klicken Sie bitte hier: gather.town/invite

Live Chat in Gather Town New Urban Approaches for a smarter and healthier Thuringia

Come and Exchange your ideas with our students! 10-11am Project 1: Building Agribusiness &Social Networks Project 2: Promoting Tourism with Kneipp Culture. Identities. Interactions. 11am-12pm Project 1: VIsions of Resilient Identity Project 2: Cohesive Physical & Digital futures for Safe & Accessible Spaces 1-2pm P1: Building a Sustainable Urban Utopia P2: Multi-scaled Tourism Model 2-3pm P1: EAT Fahner Höhe - the Rural Resilience P2: Kneipp'n' Tour - the Sustainable Connectivity

  • Begin: 10:00 am
  • End: 16:00 pm
  • Location: 3-4pm Project 1: Fostering Tourism through Agricultural Experience Project 2: Strengthening Local Networks through Cultural Identity Join our live chat here / Treten Sie unserem Live-Chat hier bei: gather.town/invite