KRETSCHMER TAUSCHER LANDESCHAFTSARCHITEKTEN PARTNERSCHAFT MBB

Their core work

Kretschmer Tauscher is a Berlin-based landscape architecture partnership that applies green infrastructure and nature-based design to practical urban challenges — particularly climate adaptation and water management. They contributed specialist practitioner expertise to the PAVITR consortium on sustainable water and wastewater treatment technologies, likely through constructed wetlands, bioretention systems, or site-scale green infrastructure approaches. On their own initiative, they led a feasibility study (KlimaFacade) to commercialise an innovative multi-functional climate facade system — a product that sits at the boundary of landscape design and building technology. They represent a type of organisation that is rare in EU research: a hands-on design practice that bridges site-specific implementation with environmental science consortia.

What they specialise in

How they've shifted over time

Both projects started in 2019, which means there is no meaningful temporal arc to analyse — this organisation entered H2020 with a clear dual focus already in place: proprietary product development (KlimaFacade) and research consortium participation (PAVITR). The early keyword data shows "high resolution management" from the PAVITR context, while the recent period yields no additional keywords, most likely because KlimaFacade ended quickly (12-month SME Phase 1) and PAVITR's later outputs are not yet captured. With only two projects and no spread across different H2020 periods, no reliable trend line can be drawn.

Their parallel tracks — self-led product commercialisation alongside large-consortium research participation — suggest they are building toward a hybrid model where proprietary green-infrastructure products and international R&D contracts reinforce each other, but this inference rests on only two data points.

How they like to work

They have operated on both sides of the consortium table: as coordinator on a lean SME feasibility project and as a specialist participant in a large, multi-year RIA with 24 partners across 7 countries. The coordinator role was clearly self-driven (their own product idea under the SME Instrument), while the PAVITR participation reflects their value as a niche practitioner embedded in a broader research team. This pattern suggests they are most useful to consortia as a design-and-implementation specialist rather than as a scientific lead.

Their confirmed network spans 24 unique partners across 7 European countries, almost entirely from the PAVITR consortium — a water technology project with a broad international composition. Their own coordinator-led project (KlimaFacade) was a solo SME feasibility study and would not have generated additional consortium connections.

What sets them apart

Landscape architecture firms are extremely rare in the H2020 participant database, making Kretschmer Tauscher an unusual profile in EU-funded research. Their value to consortia is the ability to translate environmental engineering outputs into real sites — something that environmental science labs and technology companies typically cannot provide themselves. Berlin's position as a leading city for urban sustainability policy and green building also means they operate close to potential municipal and commercial clients for the technologies they help develop.

Highlights from their portfolio

• PAVITR
  Their largest funded project (EUR 200,885), running five years within a 24-partner international consortium, demonstrates that a small design practice can win and retain a meaningful role in large-scale environmental research.
• KlimaFacade
  The only project where they acted as coordinator, this SME Phase 1 feasibility study represents a direct attempt to commercialise their own green-facade technology — the clearest signal of their proprietary product ambition.