f*ck yeah baugruppen

baugruppen: (german, noun, pl.) collectively built, custom urban housing. an assemblage of articles, projects and links on baugruppen and similar forms of urban-focused intentional community.

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Germany’s baugruppen (“building groups”) are a modern form of co-housing in which households of all kinds collectively finance and build a multifamily building as a means to improve quality of life and foster community. Could it work here? SPUR is hosting a lunchtime panel conversation on October 5 with experts in co-housing and co-living to explore baugruppen and other models.

SPUR takes on baugruppen as model for high quality urban housing. 

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Would you live in a car free bike friendly family friendly mass timber passivhaus Baugruppe?

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Learning from Berlin: lessons for emerging collective housing

Katherine Sundermann and Andy Fergus recently visited Berlin to investigate and learn more about the Baugruppe phenomenon.

notes from a baugruppe excursion in berlin.

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Booklet on baugruppen in Vienna's aspern seestadt

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Spine architects brochure on communal building and massivholz (mass timber) constructs

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Small-scale urban design as a catalyst for spatial development

report featuring case studies of several baugruppen. 

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Stadtentwicklung Graz

City of Graz page w/ examples of baugruppen in other cities. 

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Stadtentwicklung Graz

The City of Graz is starting to push baugruppen... 

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article on history of baugruppen, contrasting to baugenossenschaften. 

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This is really, really cool - the university of Western Australia is spearheading a baugruppe demonstration project in Fremantle. Anyone at the University of Washington want to join us in a cross laminated timber, car-free, passivhaus baugruppe here?

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Basic Building and Do-It-Yourself Builders The self-build ‘Grundbau und Siedler’ by Koeln-based BeL, features both rentals and owned units. The project was conceived in two phases - a first phase where the structure and infrastructure were assembled, and a second where owners worked with the contractor to lay out own units. 

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Joerg Leeser of Koeln-based BeL talks about their projects at the 2013 international conference for affordable and sustainable housing

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Over the last year or so, I've been assisting documentarian Alain Le Torneau on baugruppen - and he introduced me to the Dutch zelfbouw and CPO movements. This blog briefly tracks his excursion to Northern Europe last year.

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Die Baugemeinschaft Bern+Stein in Stuttgart Heumaden

(german) website for the baugruppe bern + stein in stuttgart, which recently broke ground.

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Bennie On The Loose

clair bannies summary of the brussels ‘brutopia’ baugruppe

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Ein Wohnhaus für eine Baugruppe in Berlin

bauwelt article on the A52 baugruppe by roedig schop. 

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UK architects visit the spreefeld housing cooperative w/ 3 buildings designed by 3 different architects.