CMI.BA - Centre for Metropolitan Innovation in Bratislava

A pilot project for the environmentally and socially sustainable renovation of the Nová Cvernovka Foundation in Bratislava, Slovakia.

Centrum für Metropolinnovation in Bratislava
Project status:
finalised
Period:
–
Type:
Research project
Profile:
Digital Space – Data, Interaction, Knowledge
Built Space – Design, Construction, Preservation
Organisational Unit:
Cooperation partners:
Passivhausinstitut Slowakei (Inštitút pre pasívne domy) Stiftung Cvernovka (Nadácia Cvernovka) id22: Institut für kreative Nachhaltigkeit
Project participants:
Nadácia Cvernovka Marlene Hildebrandt Michael LaFond Manuel Lutz Michael Prytula Chantal Schöpp Martin Šichman Ľubica Šimkovicová

The task of the research project is to develop a concept for the architecturally, socio-ecologically and energy-efficient conversion of a former residential home in Bratislava into a socio-cultural centre. The building complex is part of a former chemical secondary school from the 1950s and was rented by the Cvernovka Foundation from the Bratislava self-governing region for an initial period of 25 years. The first PlusEnergy building in Slovakia is to be realised on a total floor area of approx. 6,500 m² in a mixture of affordable and communal forms of housing (co-housing), workspaces (offices for NGOs) and public functions.

The research project comprises four fields of action, which are being worked on with partners from Slovakia and Germany:

Overall ecological concept and integral planning (University of Applied Sciences Potsdam)
Plus energy house standard (Passive House Institute Slovakia, iEPD)
Co-housing and participation (id22: Institute for Creative Sustainability)
Education and communication (Cvernovka Foundation)
The project identifies innovative approaches to social utilisation, participatory planning and ecological refurbishment and examines their feasibility in the Slovakian context together with the partners. Due to the representative building typology and the special innovative character of the reutilisation, this project has great transfer potential for similar projects in Slovakia and other European countries.

The results will be documented on a website.

Project management

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Michael Prytula

Research professor for resource-optimised and climate-adapted construction
Head of Urban Future (M. A.)

Participants

Academic staff member

  • Dr phil. Dipl.-Ing. Jens Manuel Lutz
  • Marlene Hildebrandt, M. A.

Other parties involved

  • Chantal Schöpp (graduate assistant)
  • Martin Šichman (Bratislava)
  • Nadácia Cvernovka (Cvernovka Foundation)
  • Ing. Ľubica Šimkovicová (Passive House Institute Slovakia (iEPD))
  • Dr Michael A. LaFond (id22: Institute for Creative Sustainability)