Contribution: “Live differently”
Broadcast: Die Ratgeber
TV station: Hessischer Rundfunk
Air date: March 2020
Excerpt: “Hans Drexler’s mini-house is in the middle of Frankfurt-Sachsensenhausen and practically sticks to the neighboring house. On just 29 square meters of floor space, five floors are stacked in cozy little parcels.”
Report: “Unterwegs in Hessen”
Channel: Haus des Jahres
Broadcasting: HGTV
Release date: December 2020
Excerpt: “Eva Brenner and Guido Heinz Frinken are looking for Germany’s House of the Year in Hessen. A narrow passive house in the center of Frankfurt shows impressively how to use the smallest rooms in the big city.”
Report: “Auswege aus der Wohnungsnot”
Channel: Live nach neun
Broadcasting: ARD/3sat/Artte/BR
Release date: 27th February 2019
Excerpt: “Architect Hans Drexel from Frankfurt is looking for (construction) gaps: on-top floors on parking garages, discounters or schools. This could create more than one million apartments in Germany. We show how “Better Living” of the future can look like.”
Report: “Ganz SCHÖN eng! – so wohnt die Welt auf kleinstem Raum”
Channel: Galileo Spezial
Broadcasting: ProSieben
Release date: 17th February 2019
Excerpt: “New York, Hong Kong, Munich – What do these cities have in common? There is a lack of affordable housing space. For “Galileo Spezial”, reporter Claire Oelkers travels to the most populated and most expensive cities in the world. There she meets people with innovative solutions for tiny living space. In the Texas small town of Spur, on the other hand, people deliberately live in mini-houses. Why do some of them live voluntarily on just nine square meters?”
Report: “Verdichtete Stadt – das urbane Wohnen der Zukunft?”
Channel: planet wissen
Broadcasting: WDR/SWR/ARD alpha
Release date: 22nd October 2018
Excerpt: “Lack of housing, rising rents and land prices, traffic jam. Space is rare, as more and more people are drawn to Germany’s big cities. How can living there become affordable and worth living again? Architects and city planners are testing ideas for living and traffic.”
Series: “Kampf um Wohnraum”
Channel: hessenschau
Broadcasting: Hessischer Rundfunk
Author: Katharina Schol
Release date: 3rd October 2017
Excerpt: “Frankfurt grows every year by 15,000 inhabitants. But where exactly do they find accommodation? However, the population density in Frankfurt is lower than in other cities. Due to this, there is much talk about compacting and that is much more than just filling gaps.”
Report: “Haus auf Haus: Nachverdichtung in der Stadt”
Channel: ARD Das Erste – W wie Wissen
Broadcasting: ARD/3sat/Arte/BR
Author: Boris Geiger
Release date: 30th September 2017
Excerpt: “Living space is rare in German cities. But how to solve this problem? A particularly creative possibility is “vertical” housing – houses built on top or attached to existing buildings. In the interview architect Hans Drexler at the Minihouse.”
Report: “Soziale Mieten – Wer bezahlbare Wohnungen verhindert”
Channel: ARD Das Erste – plusminus
Broadcasting: ARD/3sat/Arte/BR
Author: Markus Gürne
Release date: 16th March 2016
Excerpt: “Affordable housing is rare, especially in conurbations. In the course of the refugee influx the problem that we ignored for years is reactualised. “Plusminus” shows which changes in building need to be accomplished.”
Report: “Häuser von morgen – Das Bauen der Zukunft”
Channel: 3sat – hitec
Broadcasting: ARD/3sat/Arte/BR
Author: Michael Wech
Release date: 11th July 2012
Excerpt: “A new time has come: for the first time in the history of architecture so called plus energy houses produce more energy than they spend. Houses use up a big amount of energy. In Europe more than 40 percent of primary energy is spent through private housing, more than through transport and industry. To improve the energy efficiency of buildings, researchers and architects work on concepts of transforming houses into small power stations. In the inofficial world cup of plus energy housing in Madrid in 2012 – the “Solar Decathlon” – teams from all over the world took part.”
Broadcast: “Das neue CA: Ein Projekt in Heidelberg – Studierende bauen ihr Wohnheim”
Channel: Südwestrundfunk
Author: Annette Lennartz
Director: Peter Boudgoust
Release date: September 2017
Excerpt: “The initial Collegium Academicum, CA, was founded in 1945 as a self-governing dormitory. At the time the CA was a centre of democracy, free education, and student protests. The university administration has closed the CA in 1976. However, a new group of students and activists keep the idea alive until today. Since 2013 the initiative works towards building a new CA building, housing 174 students and additional educational and cultural facilities.”