STEP 1: FRAMING THE STUDIO Around 40 students participated in both studios, coming from a great diversity of educational backgrounds and geographic origin. To maximize the co-learning effect among the students themselves, the studio commenced with exercises to get to know each other and established rules about forming gender-balanced and international working groups aggregating diverse expertise. The site of the studio was a brownfield on the former freight rail area in Pankow, the fastest growing district of Berlin. The studio kicked-off with a fieldtrip to a similar area which has already been fully transformed into an urban park surrounded by new housing development. This allowed us to meet some of the locally rooted parties in their natural habitats. Here students were greeted with some harsh realities and the diversity of positions impacting the realm of urban design, including alternative DIYprojects, business-as-usual condos and big scale housing cooperatives.
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CUD tollmann Prof. Jörg Stollmann During a short initial assignment students had to analyze and characterize one of Hagg the 12 Berlin districts, both in spatial and socio-economic terms, Dipl.-Ing. Katharina tharina Hagg
research an existing housing site within that district, the underlying procedures and planning documents, and a prototypical housing project showing both physical design, actors and processes. Thereby the students had to change between different scales and topics and understand how these are connected and interrelated. The groups practised constructing narratives by choosing their own focus and connecting the different elements of the analysis in a storyline.
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As is known to all, the district is full of varied functions, histories and activities, etc. Most of which, however, are centralized in the southern part as in Prenzlauerberg, While some of the other zones feel more like suburban area. Thus an obvious characteristic of the whole district BUCH can be easily generated as that there is always a sharp contrast between southern and northern parts of Pankow from different aspects. For instance, from the development, landscape, urban morphology, density, population and so on. It can be either chaotic against well-organized morphology, or natural preserved land versus highly developed artificial urban space. BLANKENFELDE
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Results of the first assignment: Multi-scale research of the 12 Berlin districts, Group 07: Pankow. Image credit: UD Studio, WS 2015/16
HOME GROWN - HOUSING ALLIANCES ON THE RISE
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A COOPERATION OF HABITAT UNIT . PROFESSOR PHILIPP MISSELWITZ . WM OLIVER SCHETTER CHAIR FOR URBAN DESIGN AND URBANISATION . PROFESSOR JÖRG STOLLMANN . WM KATHARINA HAGG
HOME GROWN - HOUSING ALLIANCES ON THE RISE
A COOPERATION OF HABITAT UNIT . PROFESSOR PHILIPP MISSELWITZ . WM OLIVER SCHETTER . WM1-A M : NTS. PROFESSOR JÖRG STOLLMANN ASSIGNMENT CHAIR FOR URBAN DESIGN AND URBANISATION KATHARINA HAGG
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