ECO CITY Hamburg- Harburg: Big Thinking with a Small Carbon Footprint

In the harbor district of Harburg on the southern bank of the Elbe River has originated a new symbol of the up-to-date Hamburg. The initial signs of Germany’s first entirely sustainable creative- industrial corporate development are sprouting up on the shores of Hamburg-Harburg Harbor. Once the site of Hercules Sägemann’s Kamm world-renowned comb factory, and a ship building area before that in the late 19th century, the new ECO CITY Hamburg-Harburg (ECO CITY ) is situated on a site well associated with German entrepreneurship and ingenuity.

ECO CITY revives and continues this tradition, offering new generations of businesses workspace that is healthy, sustainable, and inspiring. This innovative sustainable urban development will also serve as a major catalyst in the revival of the Harburg Harbor area when it is completed, bringing industry, entertainment, and pedestrian life back to the neighborhood. ECO CITY is not an “instant city project”. The project investigates the possibilities of sustainable development in the realm of an existing pre-war industrial structure in the context of a dense European city.

ECO CITY nonetheless embraces the same sustainable best practices (in terms of water conservation, energy performance, material re-use, waste strategies, etc.) as other international city building projects, such as those in China or Dubai.

Once again, international design firm tecARCHITECTURE and global engineering company ARUP have teamed up to blend futuristic, environmentally-progressive architectural design with state-of-the-art technology and engineering to create a working city that challenges the notion how an urban, working environment should look and function.

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