Solar City

In the long term, a total of 25,000 people are to live in five centres in Solar City. So far, a centre with a building area of approx. 32.5 hectares for about 4,500 people has been planned, including approx. 20 hectares of open space. The adjacent Traun-Danube floodplains have been placed under nature conservation. The open space planners are faced with the difficult task of cushioning the threatening effects on the nature reserve - without prohibitions, but with an imaginative control concept.

First of all, the rainwater is directed into an ingenious system of channels, troughs, ponds and streams, from the zone close to the buildings into the floodplain forests. Groundwater recharge, creation of wetlands, support of the water regime of the floodplains are at the top of the priority list. In order to protect the existing floodplain areas from high visitor pressure, differentiated recreation areas were created between Solar City and the nature reserve. This is followed by the park-like green corridor with space for a wide range of uses and this local recreation area with bathing lake, existing allotments and a new sports area.

In a survey, the quality of life, the existing open spaces and the proximity to nature were among the most important plus points of the Quatier.