Ways Of Life

“Ways of Life” is a collaborative community project on the peninsula Scheid at Lake Edersee in the rural region of Waldeck-Frankenberg in Northern Hesse.

The goal is to design ecological and community-oriented buildings and outdoor spaces in an experimental way. In particular, the areas of living, working, ecology and culture are linked together. In addition to buildings for living and working, a studio and guest house, a seminar room, public common spaces, experimentation and exhibition areas, as well as permaculture gardens and regenerative green spaces are being built.

The opening workshop and exhibition, during experimenta urban 8 in Kassel and Scheid, was curated by Christoph Hesse and Neeraj Bhatia. The following offices took part with their ideas: Boris Bernaskoni BIT, Christoph Hesse Architects, Dogma, Fake Industries, Juergen Mayer H. and Partner, KWK Promes, noa*, ORG for Permanent Modernity, Penda, Pezo von Ellrichshausen, Rica* Studio, Somatic Collaborative, SsD, Stinessen Arkitektur, Studio Anna Heringer, Tatiana Bilbao Estudio, The Open Workshop, Yamazaki Kentaro Desing Workshop. (Designs: see photos of the exhibition at KulturBahnhof Kassel, photos: copyright tschinkersten).

The collaborative project is designed to be open and cross-disciplinary. New ideas and perspectives are always welcome. Architectural designs and contributions from the areas of living and working, ecology, community, culture, mobility and microclimate are currently being realized or planned by the following people/offices: Anna Heringer (Ger.), Atelier Alter (China ), Boris Bernaskoni, (Russia), Casey Wang (Hong Kong), Christoph Hesse Architects (Ger.), J.MAYER.H und Partner (Ger.), Kentaro Yamazaki (Japan), Neeraj Bhatia (USA/Canada), Parisa Kloss (Iran/Ger.), Saady Badaway (Egypt), Tatiana Bilbao (Mexico) and Thomas Schroepfer (Singapore).