As climate change, housing shortage and prices in the Netherlands are getting out of control, the building industry needs to find new ways of designing high quality neighbourhoods that manage to tackle these issues. This project focusses on developing an energy neutral, high quality, affordable neighbourhood by implementing a modular strategy and a climate strategy at the urban and architectural level. Solarpolis is a proposed new neighbourhood situated in the Merwedeterrein, Arnhem (NL), where both the urban and architectural situations are influenced by a passive climate design strategy. The proposed modular strategy has the advantage to be resilient enough to cope with future climate changes or changes of layout/destination of the living environments; it employs state of the art sustainable technologies to ensure circular energy exploitation/recovery to the maximum possible extent.