"Adapting existing suburbs to climate change is one of our most important tasks in future," said Jens Kerstan, Senator for the Environment. Katharina von Unold and Vincent Wenk won first prize for a design which breaks up the monotony of terraced buildings and gives the open spaces different qualities thanks to differentiated climate adaptation measures. The duo study landscape architecture at the Technical University of Munich and won EUR 5,000 for their entry.
Lennart Bundt, Ian Mayer, Nikolai Swoboda and Kilian Zengler, landscape architecture students at Weihenstephan-Triesdorf University of Applied Sciences, won the second prize of EUR 3,000 for their large-scale retention park design to collect and drain excess rainwater. The third prize of EUR 2,000 went to Anna Hinge and Ann Hua Juergens, urban planning students at the RWTH Aachen University, for their "GrüNetz" idea. Their design divides a suburb into "green", "urban" and "lively" areas. A clever system of troughs, cisterns and basins stores and retains water.
A work by Poojaben Chatrola, a landscape architecture student at the Hochschule Anhalt University of Applied Sciences, which won EUR 1,200 was purchased. A design by Lisa Kamenik and Jens Abele, who study landscape architecture in the HFWU in Nürtingen-Geislingen, won EUR 800 and was also purchased.
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