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 becomes less affordable and more homogeneous. The increasing spread of digitalisation causes citizens to isolate themselves. HETEROTOPOLIS responds: to reconnect the neighbourhood and restore Berlin’s image as a diverse, multicultural and complex city, before this is lost.
The HETERTOPOLIS approach reanimates the ‘Großwohnsiedlung’ as an urban structure that creates various topoi (neighbourhoods) with their own inherent urban-structure logic reinforced by typologies as well as programme for uses and activities that underpin the needs, daily routines, values and aspirations typical of a specific lifestyle.
To foster the plurality of the city, HETERTOPOLIS orchestrates spaces of confrontation in the overlaps between the topi – for harmonious and conflictual community encounter. This ‘liveable border’ provides both planned and yet-to-be-planned spaces, across a range of scales for the known and unforeseeable needs of the diverse communities that converge here.
Topos Golden Age
Green Axis
