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Learn more about AAD with our videos: What is our mission? What method do we use? How do we design for animals? Where can I find a project with AAD?

The videos explain our mission and method, design with the life cycles of target species and the world’s first construction project with AAD in Munich.

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The world’s first project with AAD method completed in Munich

The Brantstraße in Munich is the world’s first project, which is based on the concept of Animal-Aided Design.

Financed by the Bavarian State Ministry of the Environment and Consumer Protection the project combines the needs and requirements of humans and animals in urban planning and promotes the coexistence of humans and wild animals in the city.

Animal-Aided Design: a project from Munich

AAD is project partner in the New European Bauhaus project “Creating NEBourhoods Together Neuperlach” (Munich)

The Studio Animal-Aided Design is involved in the project “Creating NEBourhoods Together” in Munich, Neuperlach. Funded by the EU the project is one of five lighthouse projects developing sustainable, inclusive and beautiful cities and regions all over Europe as part of the New European Bauhaus initiative.

Creating NEBourhoods Together

Article in the FAZ on the topic: Biodiversity and Architecture

Animals live in our cities and have become their inhabitants. The article “A different kind of neighbour” by Petra Ahne (Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung) deals with how animals can be integrated into urban planning and gives examples of projects that have already been realized.

FAZ: A different kind of neighbour

New article in the Architect Victoria Journal

The third issue 2022 of the journal Architect Victoria, the official magazine of the Australian Institute of Architects, deals with the topic “Design for all life / Architecture and planning”. The studio Animal-Aided Design is also represented with an article.

To read in the current issue (52-55 p.) and online at:

Architect Victoria, Edition 3 / 2022

Weisser, Wolfgang, W., & Thomas E. Hauck. 2022. “Animal-aided design.” Architect Victoria 3: 52-55.

Radio report on Bayern2: To be on familiar terms with hedgehogs, sparrows and bats. New communities in the city

The studio Animal-aided design was involved in a radio report for the programme “Zündfunk Generator” on Bayern2. It is about animals in urban space and the questions of how urban fauna is currently doing and how habitats in the city can be saved.

Zündfunk Generator – broadcast date:

Sunday, 23/10/2022, 22:05 (10/23/2022, 10:05 pm) on Bayern2 and now as a podcast.

Zündfunk Generator – Bayern2

Urban nature – video clips: increasing biodiversity in your daily life – animal-friendly buildings and neighborhoods

Different cities, different players, one goal: urban nature. In the hectic everyday life of a big city one often doesn’t even realize the abundance of species in our cities and communities. But as numerous studies show, cities often have a much higher richness of species compared to the surrounding landscape, as they offer various habitats and ideal locational conditions in a very small space.

The studio Animal-Aided Design was involved in the video clip “Stadtnatur: Artenreicher Leben – Tierfreundliche Gebäude und Quartiere (Urban nature: increasing biodiversity in your daily life – animal-friendly buildings and neighborhoods)” by the German Federal Environment Ministry which draws attention in particular to animal species that inhabit buildings. This is because roofs and facades of buildings offer habitats which function as refuges for endangered, rare and legally protected animals and plants. To ensure that animals and plants will find these conditions in urban open spaces in the future, various players promote the creation and maintenance of suitable habitats: from nesting boxes on buildings, to vegetation areas on roofs and in the surrounding area, down to the use of animal-friendly light sources in public open spaces. In order to provide valuable habitats for animals, it is essential to integrate the needs of species into landscape architecture and urban design.

The video is available on YouTube:

Urban nature – animal-friendly buildings and neighborhoods

Manifesto for an Architecture of Cohabitation

In the context of the exhibition Cohabitation in June 2021 in Berlin, the biologist Wolfgang W. Weisser, the architect Marc Frohn and the landscape architect Thomas E. Hauck wrote the “Manifesto for an Architecture of Cohabitation”. The manifesto was currently published in ARCH+features 108 and is part of the exhibition “Architectures of Cohabitation” at SCHAU FENSTER, Lobeckstr. 30 in Berlin.

Ausstellung Architectures of Cohabitation
ARCH+ 247 Cohabitation
Manifest für eine Architektur der Cohabitation

AAD for Biotopia in Munich

Studio Animal-Aided Design was commissioned to apply AAD to the open space of Biotopia – the Natural History Museum of Bavaria in Munich – as part of the new planning of the museum. We are looking forward to the cooperation with Atelier Loidl and Staab Architekten.

Biotopia

Website online since August 2020

We are happy to inform you since August on our new homepage about the work of Studio Animal-Aided Design. In this section we will give you news about our practical work with the method Animal-Aided Design (AAD). Furthermore, we will point out new results and publications that arise in the context of the research on AAD.

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ECOLOPES

An innovative HORIZON 2020 funded research project [...]

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BIOTOPIA

Integration of the needs of animals in the green open spaces around the Museum [...]