Naxos-Areal is a housing project by Fundament Bauen Wohnen Leben eG, a cooperative that promotes self-managed, social, and ecological communal living in Frankfurt and the Rhine-Main region.17 The project is tied to the former Naxos site in Frankfurt’s Ostend district and represents the cooperative’s second completed housing project.25
According to the cooperative, Fundament was founded in July 2005 and had already built one house for eight young families before developing Naxos.7 The Naxos group began organizing in 2006 and went through a long planning process before a residential building was ultimately realized on the former Naxos grounds.1 The project originally aimed for a larger, intergenerational housing model, but the scope was reduced after the city opted for a competition process instead of the initial allocation approach.1 In the final realization, the cooperative built housing for twelve single people/couples at Wittelsbacherallee 29, with the building described as a five-story house with twelve apartments, two of them publicly subsidized.235
The project also reflects the cooperative’s broader work: financing community housing through member-direct loans and supporting multiple housing initiatives in the region.17 Named contacts associated with the project include Ulla Diekmann for the Naxos project group.1