Overarching goals for 2030
Buildings and their associated outdoor spaces are central places in which people live together, meet up and interact. They create spaces for people to learn, work, rest and recuperate. Increasing inequality, migration and major social changes such as demographic change, re-urbanisation, individualisation and digitalisation are changing the demands placed on sustainable buildings and outdoor spaces.
Everyone wants to be healthy – a central element of the Sustainable Development Goal for health and well-being. The German Sustainability Strategy aims to halve defined air pollutant emissions by 2030 compared to 2005. By the same date, the premature mortality rate of men and women is expected to fall more rapidly. According to the German government, the environment in which people live and work should, first and foremost, contribute to the promotion of good health. To eliminate the unfair treatment of people with disabilities, Article 9 of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities calls for equal access to the physical environment and explicitly mentions the removal of barriers to access in buildings, roads, means of transport, and indoor and outdoor facilities. The German Sustainability Strategy formulates this goal more vaguely and demands that everyone should be able to meet without restriction. It also describes a general target situation in which housing areas and cities are planned to be inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable. This is broken down into aspects such as timely public participation programmes, socially balanced and mixed urban districts, and the availability of affordable housing. On a general level, social changes need to allow for new and additional ways for people to live their lives and work, in ways that serve evolving societal needs. The German Sustainability Strategy sets 2030 as a target for reducing the share of people overburdened by housing costs to 13%.
Our Objectives
5.1 Health-promoting quality of space
Buildings support and protect good health and the well-being of those who use them, open areas offer a high quality of space, and nature can be experienced and enjoyed indoors and outdoors.
5.2 Inclusive for all
Buildings and their outdoor spaces are open to our diverse society, they are inclusive and accessible to all, and no-one is excluded due to architectural features.
5.3 Mixed site
How buildings, open spaces and amenities are used – and how they allow people to engage with others – promotes balanced, unifying and mixed coexistence in keeping with local conditions. They do this, for example, by taking into account and promoting the social, cultural and heritage-related diversity of building users and their needs, according to different stages of life and lifestyles.
5.4 Diverse and flexible in use
Different and flexible topographies and land typologies fulfil the current and anticipated needs of users and – through active support – enable the intensive use of all building areas.
5.5 Creating living spaces for everyone
Where there is a lack of living space, it is preferably created in existing buildings and made accessible and available for use in a non-discriminatory and affordable manner to those for whom there is a lack of supply in the local area.