What degree of urban density is desirable in housing and how can a successful combination of variable housing and other functions be achieved? A mix of housing and working, an innovative ground floor design and the city of short distances are the objectives of the students' proposals.
Partners: Beijing Institute of Fashion Technology, IKEA-Stiftung, Hofheim-Wallau
21st Century Housing Typologies
The aim of this summer school is to produce new sketches, visions, analyses and critics about future housing typologies, using the Neue Mitte Tempelhof as test site.
Partners: University of Kentucky, Lexington, IKEA-Stiftung, Hofheim-Wallau
Chinese University of Hong Kong | The Entrepreneurial City
CUHK students participated on a one-week workshop at ANCB Berlin as part of an International Summer School. They explored the city and worked on the topics of urban prosperity and inclusive economy. Partners: Chinese University of Hong Kong
Evidence-based Practices for Successfully Remaking Postwar Urban Landscapes: from the Kulturforum to the Quartier des Spectacles
The studio brief challenges the students to compare and contrast the Berlin case with similar new endeavours in central Montréal such as the Quartier des Spectacles. Partners: McGill University, Montréal
Berlin Culture
The students develop projects and spatial strategies that investigate Berlin Culture. Partners: Manchester School of Architecture
SoFa Design Institute, Manila | Manila meets Berlin
Students of the SoFa Design Institute in Manila immerse themselves in Berlin to get influenced by its peculiar milieu. In this Design Studio, they try a new, empathetic approach to architecture that better serves diverse communities. Partners: SoFa Design Institute, Manila
JUST LIVING: Housing Models for the Future
The design studio focuses on the development of new housing typologies for the Molkenmarkt district in Berlin.
Partners: University of Kentucky, Lexington
Future Urbanscape: Berlin’s Kulturforum
The students employ methods of urban analysis through film and undertake open urban design responses to the wider area of the Kulturforum to explore initial approaches to the design of the planned museum building. Partners: Universidad Diego Portales, Santiago de Chile
GHOSTS OF BERLIN Museum der Moderne: New Building for the New National Gallery
This design studio focuses on the Kulturforum, and more specifically on Mies van der Rohe’s Neue Nationalgalerie in the context of the competition for an neighbouring Museum der Moderne in Berlin. Partners: University of Technology, Sydney
Unlivable Berlin
This studio asks how a city expresses its hostilities. Its central interest is to explore the way in which cities can be inclusive and/or exclusionary - physically, socially and ideologically. Partners: University of Melbourne
