Intensified Density - Small-Scale Redensification in Modular Construction

As part of the "City of the Future" research programme, the Intensified Density project aims to investigate whether a small-scale densification strategy for suburbs/intermediate cities using modular construction methods and existing infrastructure on remaining plots of land can represent a competitive alternative both to the proliferation of single-family housing estates and to large-scale projects that promise ecologically sustainable architecture and urban planning through the use of technological measures.

While prefabricated and standardised construction methods are usually planned independently of their later surroundings, Intensified Density wants to explore how such structures can dock onto existing technical and social infrastructures - and activate and further develop their potential. This holistic approach is to be understood as part of a rethinking process, whereby conventional ideas and attributions of architects and urban planners are expanded to include new roles and thus become part of a change that allows the current problems of society in a city to be analysed, explored and sustainably changed.