As an official Land of Ideas partner, BASF’s contribution to the Walk of Ideas is impossible to miss: The material used to model the sculptures is BASF’s Neopor®, an innovative derivative of the BASF classic, Styropor®. Easy to mold and lightweight – it contains 98 percent air – Neopor is popular with model builders and set designers. Its main application is as an insulating material in the construction industry.

LUWOGE, BASF’s housing company, used Neopor in the refurbishment of an older building to create Germany’s first 3-litre house – a building that uses just three litres of heating fuel a year per square metre of living space. Insulation of the building’s exterior accounts for more than 70 percent of the energy savings achieved. The 3-litre house is part of a project to modernise a BASF estate called the Brunck district in Ludwigshafen, which incidentally is one of the places featured in the “365 Landmarks in the Land of Ideas” campaign.