Route 8 includes the Berliner Hauptbahnhof (Berlin Central Station), Wannsee and Potsdam. The city’s core districts are connected through three ways, urban public transport in the form of…
The overarching theme of this tender are the various scales of infrastructure projects and their influence on local communities and the urban environment. Furthermore, the project faces…
The macro analysis of this project focuses on Berlin’s complex yet productive dialogue with Brandenburg pointing out a high social, economic and political entanglement. The privatization of the…
Connectivity and Integration: new visions for the east The conceptual interpretation of three East Berlin sites in this project is based on understanding “Berlin XX XL 2040”: the…
This project frames scenarios along the S Bahn 2 line that connects Berlin with Bernau in Brandenburg. Three sites along the line Blankenburg, Buch and Bernau together with the…
The route on B96 is focusing on three very different sites, proposing a new development for 2040: Briese at the border of Berlin, Märkisches Viertel and the BSR…
This project explores future trajectories between Berlin and Brandenburg through a case study. The focus is set on work on different scales – from large scale analysis to…
This design focuses on 3 sites in Berlin-Brandenburg: Westkreuz, Olympiastadion and Falkensee. Even though they are very different, they all share being an urban void, shaped by the…
the global union The Global Union is a worldwide patchwork of self-made communities. It formed after giving-up the traditional form of government, in response to poor decisions regarding…
counter culture In 2050, Berliners find themselves in a hyper digitalized and efficient environment, in which big tech-corporations have taken over everyday life in order to save humanity…
beta berlin This technocrazy themed scenario negotiates global factors that impact national and local behavioural and social frameworks. In our technocrazy world, climate change and climate refugees impose…
degrowth The current economy and societal norm is built on the capitalist and consumerist notion to grow “faster, higher, and further”. This not only stimulates competition within…
kiez goes commons Adapting to change is increasingly a struggle for big and growing cities like Berlin. Rigid processes and policies can’t keep up. Individual needs are left…
Protopia Despite numerous calls for more mixed use within the city, even recent housing projects by the city of Berlin remain largely monofunctional and typologically homogenous. The current…
cim.ple In contrast to the built city of today – that is slow to adapt to the desires of fast-changing social realities – how does one design…
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…
SpreeRoute activating islands in the river network Engaging simultaneously with discourses on car-free neighbourhoods and with current plans for bike superhighways in Berlin, this project explored the potential…
What we can do for the River rethinking the relationship between river and city Cities depend on water and rivers, and yet create conditions that cause continual…
Water for the Kiez experimental, educational and active model quarter Taking the position that standard waterfront development more often threatens than benefits surrounding neighbourhoods, this project considered how…
Water Oriented Development uncovering the city’s tributaries to merge water and city The recent approaches of ‘water-sensitive urban design’ and ‘water for the recovery of climate (new water…
ENSEMBLESPREE assembleproductivity reinstating the river as the spine of city’s production The non-polluting, silent and small-scale characteristics of the newest generation of production, could finally reverse…
Slow it Down a urban design framework for gradual riverside redevelopment Reacting to the property-market focus of redevelopment along river edges, this project conceived a deliberately slow-paced…
Giving a finisched spatial masterplan often means the end of something and people get stuck in structures. We don’t want that. We called our design „jam session“, because we…
The Pankow Güterbahnhof site presents an extraordinary and rare opportunity to make a large impact on Berlin‘s housing crisis, particularly so due to its immense size, centrality and…
On the one hand our proposal preserves the existing qualities of the site like its incredible width and a beautiful vegetation (wicker for example), and on the other…
By offering a variety of programs, the strip will become a vivid mixed-use neighborhood which is not really common for furniture retail areas. Whereas the big boxes themselves…
We determined several rules regarding the box, the shell and their relation. Therefore creating a handbook seemed logical and useful. Yet it can be extended; especially its latter…