Ein eigenständiges Bundesbauministerium für Deutschland?
The need for a dedicated Federal Ministry for Building stems from recent developments in the real estate, retail, and transportation sectors, which highlight the necessity for streamlined construction processes and standardised regulations nationwide. Partners:Falk Jaeger, Berlin
HUMAN SCALE REMEASURED
HUMAN SCALE REMEASURED presents exemplary built projects and outstanding conceptual models by architects and planners from all over the world, offering new visions for a built environment concerned with a better socio-economic coherence.
Partners: Capital Cultural Fund (HKF), Berlin; ZEIT-Stiftung Ebelin und Gerd Bucerius, Hamburg; Austrian Cultural Forum Berlin; Henrik Frode Obel Foundation, Copenhagen
ACCESS THE FUTURE: Connecting Us to New Habitats
On-demand living spaces hovering inside a building, fluid shared environments and new access opportunities for hybrid living/working spaces are the stunning outcomes of this ANCB Student Applied Innovations Lab.
Partners: Schindler, Ebikon, Leibniz University of Hannover; TU Braunschweig; TU Berlin
Towards a Healthy City. #2 The Building Scale
This second part in a series of interdisciplinary lab talks looks into concepts of health and wellbeing at the building scale. Partners:UNStudio, Amsterdam
Our Urban Living Room
The Danish firm Cobe sees the city as an extended living room, in which private and public spaces can be connected in experimental ways – making liveability a central theme of their work.
Partners:Cobe, Copenhagen
Towards a Healthy City. #1 The Urban Approach
The kick-off event #1 The Urban Approach examines the built environment as a holistic factor for health production and optimisation. Partners:UNStudio, Amsterdam
Urban Densification
The trend towards even more urbanisation is unbroken. The event presents examples from very different areas – and invites all participants to discuss possible developments in our own cities. Partners: The Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat, CTBUH, Chicago; Werner Sobek AG, Stuttgart
Open Architecture: Migration, Citizenship and the Urban Renewal of Berlin-Kreuzberg by IBA 1984/87
Akcan's book exemplifies inclinations towards an open architecture (or the lack thereof) in the context of the discriminatory housing regulations of IBA's urban renewal development in Berlin’s immigrant neighbourhood Kreuzberg.
Partners: Esra Akcan, Cornell University, Ithaca; University of Melbourne
Unlivable Berlin – Experimental Housing Projects
Students undertake research into the history of Berlin's experimental housing projects and develop design proposals of their own.
Partners: University of Melbourne
WBM #3 – VIELFALT MIT SYSTEM
What needs do people have in the city and with what forms of housing can we best address them? What opportunities does the existing stock offer and what role do administrations, citizens' initiatives and investors play when it comes to realising new approaches?
Partners: WBM Wohnungsbaugesellschaft Berlin-Mitte; IMKEWOELK + Partner, Berlin; InitialDesign, Berlin
