At the southern Gleisdreieck in Berlin, ROBERTNEUN™ Architekten and ATELIER LOIDL Landschaftsarchitekten are redefining inner-city forms of living and developing urban wasteland.
TOWN PLANNING
The urban development proposal provides for the formation of a clear city edge by supplementing the existing half block. The alignments of the adjacent blocks are taken up, so that the future development naturally fits into the overarching urban space and manifests the track space as a public space. As the development progresses, the listed locomotive depot halls become part of the public space continuum that extends the Gleisdreieck Park across the project site to the adjacent allotment gardens to the south, thus making them accessible to the entire district.
The project turns what is found, the charm of this railway wasteland with its buildings, its materials and its vegetation into an integrative starting point. In this way, a new construction project of this size expands on an existing urban situation, leads the atmosphere, materiality and scale as an alternative offer, as a contribution to a heterogeneous city. This strategy of continuing to build can be found at all levels of the project. The public space is materialized with the existing surfaces such as cobblestones, rail remnants, etc. The building and apartment types are thematically designed analogously as factory living with a greenhouse and materialized with contextually related materials such as brick-red exposed concrete façades, rust-proof painted aluminum windows, large-scale wooden gates, recycled brick facades, etc.
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