The project aims to bring young professionals, who left the region for educational reasons, back home. In addition new inhabitants should be attracted to Waldeck too. Like many other non-urban areas in Europe, the region faces the consequences of depopulation. Due to the young generation’s drift towards the cities and the general demographic shift to an ageing society, well-functioning local communities are shrinking and eventually dying.
Ways of Life is a joint project by 19 architecture firms from around the world. Located by the Lake Edersee in Germany, the site is within the ‘middle geography’ of ‘city’ and ‘nature’. Geographies like these are often overlooked by designers, despite hosting more than forty percent of Europe’s population. This zone has been used as a basis for the development of the environment.
Ways of life proposes an alternative way of life, that curates architecture and accordingly, attracts the ideal client.