Directory of Eco-villages in Europe - Kennedy Bibliothek

Okosledlung-Gartnerhof
Okosiedlung-Gartnerhof is situated some 30 km Northeast of Vienna,
within the city limits of Ganserndorf in the "Marchfeld" district, a
region characterised by intensive farming and widely scattered weekend
homes. Between 1982 and 1988 the future dwellers of the Ecohomes
spent 4 years planning (under the guidance of the architect Helmut
Deubner) and 2 years building a housing complex. It consists of
11 courtyard houses built as compact low rises with individual gardens,
and 10 flats with terraces and roof gardens. The complex also
includes a community room, a playground, landscaped public grounds,
a swimming pond, vegetable gardens and an organic sewage treatment
system. An adjacent nursery, the Gartnerhof, has been operating bioorganically
since 1978.
The most important goal during the planning period was to combine
the natural interdependences of energy, land, air and water, thereby
creating an integrated system - departing from conventional systems of
consumption and waste disposal.
Following aspects helped us to reach the desired objective:
• optimal use of simple, durable, and recyclable construction materials
free of toxic substances
• an organic sewage treatment system
• passive and active utilisation of solar energy
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Austria
Gansendorf
existing
eco-village