The „Morgenstadt: city insights“ (m:ci) project started with 10 Fraunhofer Institutes in 2012. M:ci deals with sustainable urban developments, which is a result of urbanization, increase in population and climate change.
Planning and construction are becoming ever more polarised: design freedom through technical possibilities on the one hand and enormous economic pressures, material, resource, and energy efficiency on the other. The challenge for architects and planners, is to combine both aspects in a positive way and thereby create an architecture in which these polarised arguments do not contradict each other.