Welteninsel Berlin Brandenburg 2070

Berlin

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Germany
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Client

Architekten und Ingenieur Verein Berlin AIV

Project

Comprehensive water masterplan for a 1.5 million inhabitant city

Stages

2019 Ideas competition stage 1
2020 Ideas competition stage 2

Team

MLA+: Markus Appenzeller, Ildar Bigyanov, Christoph Michael*, Maximilian Müller*, Martin Probst, Robert Younger
Manufacturing Cities, More Landscape, Martin Arts, Uli Hellweg
* team members now working under the name Studio M³

Awards

We changed

From the star shaped agglomeration to polycentric galaxy.

Transformation

+ Long term vision with room for evolution
+ Not a single plan
+ A vision guided by six images

Climate

+ Strengthening of blue-green systems
+ Promoting circular economy
+ Promoting inclusion and change through public discourse: Exhibition, publications, lectures

Collaboration

+ MLA+ leading multidisciplinary planning team supported by a sounding board of senior industry and public authority experts
People like stories and memorable metaphors.This particularly is true with big strategic and long term city strategies. Copenhagen has the finger plan that identifies development axis from the center outward. London has the green belt that is a landscape spacer between Greater London and the settlements further away.
Until now, Berlin has been using the star as such a metaphor. The problem: it does not reflect the spatial reality and the fact that the area surrounding Berlin features a number of important cities like Potsdam that are metropolitan centers in their own rights. We conceived a new image - the Galaxy - Welteninsel - that fits much better. But the choice of this metaphor goes further: it also is an invitation for each and every local to engage in the process of shaping the galaxy. Through a series of images - Berlinbilder, moments of engagement have been identified, ranging from climate adaptation, across a new form of urban governance to new entrepreneurial activities. In defining the mission broader than only spatially, the strategy becomes a integral tool to the evolution of the metropolitan region in its entirely, including every citizen.

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