Project

If you look at the visions for our cities that have been designed over the past hundred years, you might think that everything can be planned for 50 or 100 years in advance. Axes are created, construction areas identified and filled with perimeter blocks. Settlement stars are defined, and high-rise areas planned. Science clusters are located and new transport systems are anticipated. It’s all reminiscent of Jules Verne – science fiction. Either existing developments are updated (‘the stony Berlin – the West European city’) or completely new images are created (‘there are no more cars and we fly in drones – we will no longer live in cities …’). We believe that neither approach does justice to what Berlin will be in 50 or 100 years, nor that they can depict trends in urban development – they are an expression of current fashions. We have therefore made it our task not to think about axes and building sites, but to redefine what a city vision actually is. As part of the competition for a vision for Berlin-Brandenburg 2070, we have developed an alternative narrative that does not try to plan, but to depict what Berlin and Brandenburg can be in 2070.

Client

AIV Berlin

Program

Visionary masterplan for Berlin-Brandenburg agglomeration

Stages

2019 stage 1 vision
2020 stage 2 elaboration

Team

MLA+, Manufacturing Cities, More Landscape, Martin Arts, Uli Hellweg