From September 14th till October 30th, the Museum for Architecture and Engineering NRW (M:AI) shows the exhibition „Everyone wants to live. Fair. Social. Affordable.“ („Alle wollen wohnen. Gerecht. Sozial. Bezahlbar.“)
Gerber Architekten, with its residential project Quarter of Nations Wilhelmsburg in Hamburg, is taking part of the exhibition in the former industrial building at the Clouth-Area (Hall 18) in Cologne, which is currently developed into a residential neighborhood.

The Quarter of Nations in Hamburg’s Wilhelmsburg district was created in connection with the IBA 2013 – a model intercultural housing project intended to house more than 1,700 inhabitants originating from 30 different nations. Gerber Architekten extended a traditional workers’ housing development with two new buildings that respond to the most fundamental elements of the existing architecture and reinterpret them by incorporating sculptural head-end volumes, whilst simultaneously reconciling them with the high energy efficiency requirements of a “passive building”.

There are a total of 75 publicly‑funded housing units, of different sizes and offering different forms of accommodation; they combine accommodation types suitable for single persons, couples and families, thereby ensuring an appropriately-mixed social profile for the Weltquartier.