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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…

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…

Local Educational Landscapes and Urban Development Interfaces and Interlacings

In the broad socio-political discussion on the topic of education within the last decade, it becomes apparent that space and the urban context are important dimensions of education…

Roof Water Farm

ROOF WATER-FARM demonstrates paths towards  innovative city water management and urban food production. Potentials and risks of redesigning across sectors of infrastructure will be explored and communicated. The research association investigates…

Green Actor-Networks Calculating, (re)constructing and black-boxing ‘nature(s)’

Yamil Hasbun Chavarria The present dissertation analyzes the way in which particular constructions of ‘nature’ are assembled from bits and pieces of heterogeneous materials –such as policies, trees,…

Simulizi Mijini / Urban Narratives

Simulizi Mijini / Urban Narratives is an academic, artistic and publishing exchange between Berlin, Germany and Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. It focuses on urban heritage, as a tangible…

Development Priorities in Cairo Informal Areas Planning, Realization and Local Perceptions

This research project questions how the experience of integrated and participatory neighbourhood upgrading, which begun under the old regime, can be revisited and reconceptualised as a tool to…

From “Ashwa’eyat” to “Habitat Spontané” Transformation and informal urbanism

Political democratic transformation processes that have been taking place in different Arab countries since 2011 deeply impact on cities and urban transformation in the region. The impact of…

RealCity Lab Practical orientation in architectural education

Aiming to enhance these areas and to reach sustainable cities, social, cultural, economic, environmental, and management aspects have to be considered in an interdisciplinary teaching approach. This includes…

Housing our Selves An Ethnography of Active Inhabitation

The DFG funded research project is an ethnographic study of the activities that are involved in producing spaces of dwelling and ideas of home. Scholarship from the social…

Informality unchained Illegal practices in London’s housing market

London’s housing landscape has experienced significant changes over the last decades. The growth of the private rented sector, its rising rents and the reducing number of available social…

A jam manufactory for NAXIÍ DesignBuild-Studio at TU Berlin 2011/2012

A Jam Manufactory for Naxií is the built outcome of a DesignBuild project directed by the CoCoon-Studio at the Technische Universitaet Berlin in 2012. Two buildings form the…

Kitchen-Hub

The KITCHEN-HUB is a place for refugees and local residents in Berlin Schöneberg, run by Über den Tellerrand e.V. The design reflects our approach: it is a tool…

Landfills Design Concepts for the Urban Repository

The design studio “Landfills” focused on the waste infrastructure in the Athens metropolitan area, considering the local, social and cultural particularities of dealing with dirt and refuse. The…

Rapid Planning Sustainable infrastructure, environmental and resource management for highly dynamic metropolises

Development and testing of a rapid trans-sectoral and integrated planning methodology for regional resource management and developing supply and disposal infrastructure.

Urban Agriculture for Growing City Regions Connecting Urban-Rural Spheres in Casablanca

The UAC project demonstrates how agriculture can play a determining role in sustainable, climate-optimised urban development. Agriculture within urban growth centres today is more than an economic or…

Interactivity and the production of space in informal settlements

This PhD thesis creates a knowledge basis that makes Lefebvre’s spatial concept applicable to the analysis of social problems. The actor-space-relationships are identified as interfaces for the prognosis…