Connecting Fragments

“CONNECTING FRAGMENTS: Public Spaces as the Key Infrastructure to Healthy BB 2040” by Julian Hees, Sarah Friedel, Asli Aydin, David Svensson, Saskia Hirtz, Diana Chvirova, Laurenz Blaser The…

Stresstest

“BB4+ STRESSTEST: Critical visions for a region facing climate pressure” by Ziwei Dong, David Freeman, Luzie Michaels, Pascal Müller, Arina Rahma, Huizi Zhu This is BB4+ : Stresstest!…

THE CARBON VALLEY

“THE CARBON VALLEY: The Glacial Valley as a Carbon Infrastructure” by Sasha Amaya, Lisa Biermann, Adi Cohen, Yagmur Durak, Liujun Chen, Anna Markušina, Jonas Möller, Azada Taheri In…

Travel Route: HBF – Wansee – Potsdam

Route 8 – BERLIN XX XL Eka Permanasari, Maram Ismail, Gan Yunni, Wang Yuchun, He Yite, Su Tianrui Route 8 includes the Berliner Hauptbahnhof (Berlin Central Station), Wannsee…

Bridging Islands

Route 7 – BERLIN XX XL Lena Diete, Destina Ergin, Thierry Nolmans, Johanna Schacht, Anastasia Soshnikova   The overarching theme of this tender are the various scales of…

A Tale of Circular Journeys of Waste in Berlin

Route 6 – BERLIN XX XL Hui Xu, Kosar Ashgari, Zitong Ye, Uros Stojadinovic, Daniel Dilger The macro analysis of this project focuses on Berlin’s complex yet productive dialogue with…

Connectivity and Integration

Route 5 – BERLIN XX XL Mohamed Hegaz, Yasin Imran Rony, Anastasia Kuznetsova, Solveigh Paulus, Nina Schulz Connectivity and Integration: new visions for the east The conceptual interpretation…

Barrier-Free

Route 4 – BERLIN XX XL Kriti Garg, Zoe Hochstein-Morran, Carolina Moreno Londono, Alejandro Orduz Trujillo, Tamar Sarkissian This project frames scenarios along the S Bahn 2 line…

Klub Kanal

Route 2 – BERLIN XX XL Paul Strobel, Diogo Jeremias, Carolin Lichtenstein, Tino Imsirovic, Tom Rawson This project explores future trajectories between Berlin and Brandenburg through a case…

B96

Route 3 – BERLIN XX XL Nathan Bram, Frederick Coulomb, Vanessa Markus, Babatunde Oladogba, Lena Reißler, André Sacharow The route on B96 is focusing on three very different…

Work… or Not

Route 1 – BERLIN XX XL Ildar Biganiakov, Liu Ai, Paula Pons, Aniko Strutz, Panos Tsiamyrtzis Bakas This design focuses on 3 sites in Berlin-Brandenburg: Westkreuz, Olympiastadion and…

The Global Union

For What it’s Worth 2: The Great Transformation Arina Kapitanova, Christina Krampokouki, Christopher Heidecke, Evelina Faliagka, Jianhua Chen, Jun Wen, Laura Simak, Rosa Pintos Hanhausen the global union…

Counter Culture

For What it’s Worth 2: The Great Transformation Bengisu Aydos, Chi Zhang, Jiaxin Lu, Johanna Hamel, Louna Al Bondakji, Magdalena Grienig, Philipp Winter, Simin Yan, Tunca Beril Basaran…

Beta Berlin

For What it’s Worth 2: The Great Transformation   Julia Dorn, Katherine Eynon, Salma Hassabelnaby, Johannes Reinders, Veit Vogel, Johanna Westermann, Shuaiqi Xia, Yiran Zhang, Leonie Ziehmann beta…

Degrowth

For What it’s Worth 2: The Great Transformation Simon Warne, Lucinda Ng, Edouard Barthen, Paul Bostanjoglo, Mingyu Zhuang, Lucia Forcioli Conti, Monika Sillova, Sima Bhattarai, Laura Valverde Offermann…

Kiez goes Commons

For What it’s Worth: Densification at any Cost? Julia Göse, Marie Hildebrandt, Miao Hu, Leticia Palomino, Robert Ritzel, Emmi Stiegler, Amadeus Theimer, BoLun Wang kiez goes commons Adapting…

Protopia

For What it’s Worth: Densification at any Cost? Melanie Garcia, Jörn Gartenbach, Anna Golmann, Petra Heber, Malte Hirsbrunner, Sophie Marthe, Lixuan Xie, Yanqui Yao Protopia Despite numerous calls…

cim.ple

For What it’s Worth: Densification at any Cost? Venus Ayoub, Luisa Balz, Raphael Feurstein, Timo Hartmann, Yiwen He, Andreas Horn, You Lyu, Mathias Maurerlechner, Julia Schlütsmeier-Hage, Philine von…

Heterotopolis

For What it’s Worth: Densification at any Cost? Anais Alfieri, Lea Becker, Jacqueline Behrnd, Irene Georgieva, Katharina Krempel, Alina Reuschling, Yitong Wang, Maik Weifenbach HETEROTOPOLIS     Berlin…

Spree Route

SPREEATHEN Dominikus Littel, Niklas Grupe, Yanan Chen, Philipa Weyers WS 2016/17 SpreeRoute activating islands in the river network Engaging simultaneously with discourses on car-free neighbourhoods and with current…

What we can do for the River

SPREEATHEN WS 2016/17 What we can do for the River rethinking the relationship between river and city   Cities depend on water and rivers, and yet create conditions…

Water for the Kiez

SPREEATHEN Nija-Maria Linke. Franziska Bittner. Alina Schütze. Nanuk Rennert WS 2016/17 Water for the Kiez experimental, educational and active model quarter Taking the position that standard waterfront development…

Water Oriented Development

SPREEATHEN Jöran Mandik. Li Zyue. Rickmer Niehus. WS 2016/17 Water Oriented Development uncovering the city’s tributaries to merge water and city The recent approaches of ‘water-sensitive urban design’…

ENSEMBLESPREE assembleproductivity

SPREEATHEN Michael Fay. Dija Chen. Marcel Tröger. Peter Werner WS 2016/17 ENSEMBLESPREE assembleproductivity reinstating the river as the spine of city’s production     The non-polluting, silent and…

Slow it Down

SPREEATHEN Bente Jacobsen. Nathalie Denstorff.  Ana Martin Yuste. Martin Villegaz WS 2016/17 Slow it Down a urban design framework for gradual riverside redevelopment   Reacting to the property-market…

Jam Session

UD HOME GROWN – Housing Alliances on the Rise Svenja Binz, Julia Brennauer, Li Ao, Jim Reifferscheid WiSe 15/16 Giving a finisched spatial masterplan often means the end of…

Slices for Community

UD HOME GROWN – Housing Alliances on the Rise Christin Bernartz, Laurène Cendrey, Nadine Krell, Kerstin Parschat, Lisa Wagner WiSe 15/16 On the one hand our proposal preserves…

Big Box +

UD HOME GROWN – Housing Alliances on the Rise Bengt Kröner, Sebastian Kunz, Yisha Zhang, Yue Zhang WiSe 15/16 By offering a variety of programs, the strip will…

Broxymoron

UD HOME GROWN – Housing Alliances on the Rise Hişar Ersöz, Anne Gunia, Mateusz Rej, Frederik Springer, Piroska Szabó Urban Design Studio WiSe 15/16 We determined several rules…

Hi, High-density

UD HOME GROWN – Housing Alliances on the Rise Madeleine Appelros, Jennifer Gehring, Benedikt Wieser, Bu Yijie WiSe 15/16 The Pankow Güterbahnhof site presents an extraordinary and rare…

KVV SoSe 2023

The annotated course catalogue for the summer semester 2023 has been released. Please click here to download it and find further information on subject selection and enrolment. The…

KVV WiSe 2022/23

  Dear students, the course catalogue for the winter term is finally out. Click here to download it.

X-Tutorial: Reconstructing the change – Designing a toolbox of strategies

In this research project, together with the other students, we try to identify and investigate historical patterns of housing typologies in the old neighborhood of Imamzadeh-Yahya; to examine…

Scientific Colloquium 21/22

Click here to join the ISIS course of the Scientific Colloquium, starting December 6th!

KVV WS 2021/22

Dear students, the course catalogue for the winter term is finally out. Click here to download it.  

FAQ for Incoming Students 2021

Dear Incoming Students of the year 2021, We are looking forward to meeting you in the first semester of the Urban Design Master at the TU Berlin! At…

Urban Design Methods — Book Launch 19th May 2021 at 19:00 H

# 1 Introduction by Undine Giseke and Philipp Misselwitz # 2 Spotlights: Martin Fuller & Emily Kelling, Jörg Stollmann & Aine Ryan, Angela Million & Andreas Brück, Undine…

KVV SoSe 2021

Dear students, the course catalogue for the summer term is finally out and you can download it here KVV_SUMMER_2021   Make sure to carefully read all instructions on…

OUT NOW: Urban Design Methods Integrated Urban Research Tools

Urban Design Methods is a manual for reconciling contemporary approaches with increasingly complex demands in the shaping of urban living spaces. Architects and landscape architects, as well as…

KVV WS 2020/21

Dear students, the course catalogue for the winter term is finally out and you can download it here KVV_WINTER_2020/21   Make sure to carefully read all instructions on…

Student assistant position from October 2020 !

The Habitat Unit is looking for a student assistant to help with the organisation of the Dual Degree Master from October 2020! Applications until August 6, 2020  

BB2040 http://bb2040.de/wp/

BB2040 is a collaborative research project exploring #transformation processes in #BerlinBrandenburg from the perspective of #infrastructures. We will invite students, colleagues, collaborators and guests to contribute their knowledge,…

KVV SS2020

Dear students, the course catalogue for the summer semester is finally out and you can download it here KVV_SUMMER_2020   Make sure to carefully read all instructions on…

Important Information: Covid-19 Online teaching in the summer semester 2020

© Alissa Eckert, MS, Dan Higgins, MAM

Regarding the current situation of COVID-19 TU Berlin has decided to start the summer semester on the 20th of April with online teaching. To stay informed regularly check…

1. Preis “Goldener Büffel 2019”

Das interdisziplinäre Team der TU Berlin mit den Studierenden Luisa Balz (Urban Design), Jonas Brodzinski (Architektur), Luisa Berßelis (Städtebau) und Sahl Kreish (Architektur) hat mit Ihrem Entwurf aus…

Urban Talks 2019

Tasty Cities

KVV UD WS 19/20

Updated! Download here the course catalogue for the winter term 2019/20!!     http://www.urban-design.tu-berlin.de/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/191021_KVV_UDMA-komprimiert.pdf

Berlin XX XL*

In the context of the forthcoming 2020 centenary of Greater-Berlin the studio will look at the city’s past (built, unbuild, destroyed, forgotten) and present (contested, procrastinating, path-dependent) to…

Introduction Urban Design

We invite all the Urban Design students starting their studies in the winter term 2019-20 to join the Introduction Day: WHEN:  Monday, October 7th @ 2pm WHERE:  A053…

Two scholarships for the UD Dual Degree in Shanghai!

We congratulate all the students which have been accepted in the Urban Design M.Sc. starting in October 2019! Two more students can get the chance to participate at…

Dual Degree Master Graduation 2019

The Urban Design Dual Degree students who started their studies at TU Berlin in the winter term 2017 succesfully graduated at Tongji University Shanghai this June. Congratulations!  …

Award Urban Design Studio – Friends of the TU Berlin Preis für vorbildliche Lehre

On the 8th of October, the Urban Design Studio (Prof Stollmann, Prof. Misselwitz, Katharina Hagg and Aine Ryan) was awarded the price for outstanding teaching (1.500€), donated by…

The Rhetoric and Challenges of the New Urban Agenda in African Cities An African Perspective

The New Urban Agenda (NUA) is the outcome document agreed upon at the Habitat III cities conference in Quito, Ecuador, in October 2016. It seeks to guide the…

Red Sea All-Inclusive

Tourism is one principal economic sector for Egypt. The Red Sea coast with its sandy beaches and appealing coral reefs accounts for more than 60 per cent of…

Tempohomes

Seit 2014 hat die sogenannte “Flüchtlingskrise” in Deutschland zu einer Vielfalt von praktischen Lernversuchen von Stadtverwaltungen und der Zivilgesellschaft geführt, um die Handlungs- und Verwaltungskrise auf kommunaler und…

Atlas of Digital Fragments

Digitalization and urbanization are deeply intertwined. Yet, the impact of digitalization in shaping urban transformation is highly contested. A frequent concern voiced by critics is the reliance of…

For what it’s worth II The Great Transformation

By 2050, 70% of the world’s population is likely to live in city-like concentrations. Our climate will have radically changed and natural resources will have dramatically depleted. Digitalisation…

INTRO UD 18

INTRODUCTION URBAN DESIGN 2018/19 October 8, 2018 2p.m. A053   We wish you all a good start!

Chinafrika. under construction

Africa is referred to as the last major growth region in the world. By 2050, the current population of nearly one billion people could almost double, and more…

Die Nachwachsende Stadt – Governing Transformation

Architects and planners are increasingly confronted with new challenges: Fossil energy resources as well as non-renewable materials are on the decline, the effects of climate change and pollution…

Taibat Lawanson Exploring Alternative Urbanisms for Lagos, Nigeria

Cities are shaped by multiple interests, often acting in pursuit of conflicting visions. In Lagos, there is a wide disconnect between the developmental policy thrust of government and…

Asef Bayat Street Politics in the Arab Revolutions

After completing his B.A. in Poli- tics from the Faculty of Political and Social Sciences in Tehran, he received his Ph.D. in Social Sciences from the University of…

Marie Huchzermeyer Interrogating the New Urban Agenda from the perspective of pressing urban realities in Sub-Saharan Africa

The New Urban Agenda adopted in Quito in October 2016 was the culmination of extensive negotiations among member countries of the UN and of lobbying by the non-…

Urban Agriculture for Growing City Regions Connecting Urban-Rural Spheres in Casablanca: edited by Undine Giseke

Urban Agriculture for Growing City Regions Connecting Urban-Rural Spheres in Casablanca edited by Undine Giseke Maria Gerster-Bentaya, Frank Helten, Matthias Kraume, Dieter Scherer, Guido Spars, Fouad Amraoui, Abdelaziz…

10TH ANNIVERSARY MASTER URBAN DESIGN TU Berlin

The Master’s Program in Urban Design at the TU Berlin was the first of its kind to be implemented in Germany. The four institutes of Architecture, Landscape Architecture,…

Out There. Landscape Architecture on Global Terrain Architekturmuseum der TU München

Exhibition opening on Wednesday, April 26, 2017 at 7 p.m. Curators: Undine Giseke, regine Keller, Jörg Rekittke, Antje Stokman, Christian Werthman Architekturmuseum der TU München http://www.architekturmuseum.de/home/ http://www.hatjecantz.de/suchergebnisse-624-0.html?q=drau%C3%9Fen

Space Oddity Raumtheorie nach dem Spatial Turn

Revised version of Prof. Dr. Martina Löw’s inaugural lecture, held on July 9th 2014. Follow the link.   (fig: Milchstraße, Thüringen, Ansgar Koreng,  CC BY-SA 3.0 (DE), https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9a/Milchstra%C3%9Fe%2C_Th%C3%BCringen%2C_151002%2C_ako.jpg)

International Doctoral College Spatial Research Lab

The International Doctoral College is open to excellently qualified candidates from a wide range of spatially relevant disciplines who would like to engage in an intensive, academically creative…

The Sociology of Space Materiality, Social Structures, and Action

In this book, the author develops a relational concept of space that encompasses social structure, the material world of objects and bodies, and the symbolic dimension of the…

Star Architecture Repositioning Small and Medium Sized Cities

Notable cityscapes are always punctuated by built iconic landmarks. In fact, many cities’ visual identity is predicated on having such architectural icons. We tend to take their symbolic…

Studio Rural+ / Alpine Commons Midterm Review

In case you are interested in the progress of our current Design Studio “Studio Rural+ / Alpine Commons” all of you are warmly invited to join our upcoming…

10. anniversary Master Urban Design

The Master’s Program in Urban Design at the TU Berlin was the first of its kind to be implemented in Germany. The four institutes of Architecture, Landscape Architecture,…

Vincent Möller Community Led Development and Design in Times of Climate Change

Two factors in particular make informal settlements particularly vulnerable to climate change: high built density, which amplifies the heat-island-effect during hot summer days, and the lack of household…