Group O - Collaborative Climate Adaption Project
| Area | Munich | |
| Place | Ackermannbogen | |
| Country | Germany | |
| Topic | renewable energy application | |
| Author(s) | Cenke Jiang, Andreea Pascu, Le Trang Nguyen | |
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Rationale: Why have you selected this case study area?
- Munich is the capital city of Bavaria, one of Germany's three largest cities with the population of 1.42 million people and has the strongest economy of the whole country. This is a globally cosmopolitan city and also has the leading renewable energy policy.
- Ackermannbogen is a district of Munich particularly planned to be one of the front-runners of solar district heating. This is a part of the city's aim: 100% renewable energy for Munich in 2015. This area is a perfect practical example of building a green enery system and an innovative concept of intergrating solar heating machines with green space.
Authors' perspectives
We all come from different background, but our aspirations meet where the climate is actually changing and we believe renewable energy and mitigation is the key solution for the future. We chose Ackermannbogen as a project-case study, more than a reality-case study, because it is a great project which was designed and currently being built and continually adjusted for the future. Our aim is to learn from such massive plan and to make our own proposals in the context of pre-designed but considering the factor of climate changing.
Landscape and/or urban context
In the late eighties, the city of Munich laid the foundation stone for a municipal policy committed to promoting renewable sources of energy by emphasising energy saving. As early as 1991, the Munich municipal council decided to concentrate on lowering CO2 emissions by 30% in 2005 and by 50% in 2010. So far, the City of Munich's climate protection policy has respected Kyoto protocol objectives even though this was not the case before they were defined.
Ackermannbogen district is situated within the context of the pre-planning area, Munich Olympic Park. Along with the whole concept of "Green Olympic Games" and the energy saving policy of Munich itself, Ackermannbogen specifically generates solar-powered local heating system with a seasonal heat storage facility has been developed for the Bavarian capital of Munich. The concept actually came from a competition of urban and landscape design ideas in 1998, conducted by the city of Munich. The central idea of the design was to create a community planner broad range of different types of housing - from double or terraced houses to apartment buildings.
Biogeography
Ackermannbogen lies on the elevated plains of Upper Bavaria, about 50 km north of the northern edge of the Alps, at an altitude of about 520 m (1,706.04 ft) ASL. The local rivers are the Isar and the Würm. The geography characteristics are similar to Northern Alpine Foreland. The northern part of this sandy plateau includes a highly fertile flint area which is no longer affected by the folding processes found in the Alps, while the southern part is covered with morainic hills. Between these are fields of fluvio-glacial out-wash, such as around Munich. Wherever these deposits get thinner, the ground water can permeate the gravel surface and flood the area, leading to marshes as in the north of Munich.
One of the significant characteristics of the biogeography of Munich area is: Although the city keeps expanding, not only the population or the accommodations increase but also artificial hills are made and city's forest are planted. Species and natural elements are reserved as much as possible. With the examples of Munich Riem area and the English Garten, the Botanischer Garten München-Nymphenburg, Ackermannbogen district inherits diverse Bavarian biogeography.
Land use
Within the Urban Development Action, till 2014 Ackermannbogen will then cover 39.5 hectares in total:
- ca. 2250 dwellings
- Student dormitory
- Kindergarten
- Public primary school
- Private school
- Medical centre
- Supermarket
- Retails, Cafeterias
- Cultural and neighborhood meeting
- Bridge Construction
- 9.2 hectares of public green spaces
- Large meadow
- Playground
- Hills
- City Forest
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Local Climate
- What are the climatic conditions at present? Have there been extreme weather events in the near past?
- Which changes are expected? Is there any evidence?
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Analysis of vulnerability
- If you consider these potential changes - which aspects/functions of your case study would be affected?
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Proposals for Climate Change Adaption
- How could your case study area become more resilient to climate change?
- Which measures would need to be taken to adapt to the new situation?
- How could you assure sustainability of these measures?
- Please describe 2-3 measures
Proposals for Climate Change Mitigation
- Which measures would need to be taken to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and other drivers of climate change within your case study area?
- How could you assure sustainability of these measures?
- Please describe 2-3 measures
Your scenario
- How will this area look like in 2060?
- Please forecast one potential future development taking climate change into account
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- Are there any important theoretical insights?
- Which research questions does it generate?
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