page_title: Kranichstein
section_title: Modern times
hierarchical_section_title: Kranichstein / History / Modern times
caption_attribution_description: Español: Passivhaus original (el estándar para la construcción de viviendas de los profesores Bo Adamson y Wolfgang Feist), en Darmstadt (Alemania), durante la primavera. English: Original Passivhaus, Darmstadt, in spring.
context_page_description: Kranichstein is a district in the city of Darmstadt. The town started with housing construction in the 1960s and now also has a number of residential high-rises. Often referred to as Darmstadt-Kranichstein.
context_section_description: In 1968, the Darmstadt relatively large urban development project "Kranichstein" was started, the designs were by Ernst May . The draft plans saw an expansion of the city by 18,000 new residents.  The city plans had a system of the civil parks, with artificial hills and several ponds that were created with clay pits, also the Brentano lake.
  Kranichstein is known for its passive houses, (Passivhaus in German) this refers to voluntary standard for energy efficiency in a building, reducing its ecological footprint
caption: A building based on the passive house concept in Darmstadt-Kranichstein, Germany
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