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Hoelderlinhaus Citizen Information Event

• Date: 08. Juli 2015

This text was published on 18.08.2015 with the title: „HfWU Research Institute visualizes Nürtingen Hölderlinhaus“ in the HfWU press releases.

The city of Nürtingen is planning a new educational center in the immediate vicinity of the HfWU downtown campus. A team led by Prof. Dr. Michael Roth has developed a 3D model for this purpose.

The construction project on the Schlossberg in Nürtingen’s old town primarily affects the historic Hölderlinhaus. For years, there has been controversial discussion about how changes to the building will affect it, especially visually. The team led by Prof. Dr. Michael Roth (Faculty of Landscape Architecture, Environmental and Urban Planning and Institute for Landscape and Environment) was commissioned by Nürtingen’s building management to develop a photorealistic 3D model depicting the various planning options for the Hölderlinhaus. Citizens, users and city councils were to be provided with a valid basis for decision-making.

Together with the company „Lenné3D – Virtual Gardens and Landscapes“, the group developed an interactive, walk-through, real-time 3D model of Nürtingen’s old town that shows both the existing structure and the planning variants. The municipal committees were visibly impressed by this. The model was subsequently also used to involve the city’s citizens in the planning process. The visualizations were presented to the public in the K3N city hall. „With the real-time, interactive city model, we were able to react flexibly to the public’s wishes and, for example, present the view from the living room window of a concerned resident without delay,“ notes Prof. Dr. Michael Roth. „We are concerned that factual arguments are brought to the fore in the planning process,“ Roth continues.