Heidestrasse "EcoExtremes" Masterplan

Sustainable Masterplan for Berlin's Heidestrasse Area developed by students of TU Berlin in 2010.
Since the fall of the Berlin Wall, the area around Berlin’s Central Station has remained relatively undeveloped given the uncertainty in Berlin’s land markets. Given the proximity to the Central Station, and its potential high value in the near future, the City of Berlin wants to develop the area as a hub for high-end office, commercial, retail and residential spaces. One of the conditions set by the City’s Senate, however, is that all development must be sustainable and address issues related to climate change. A design proposal developed by the main property owner (the land development corporation Vivico) currently exists for the project site.
Although Vivico’s plan is marketed as “sustainable development,” the studio took the project to task and found that the meaning of “sustainability” in the current project was reduced to a limited set of sustainable elements, namely compactness, high-density, mixed-uses, and pedestrian environments, but lacked considerations for water recycling, energy production, waste management or food production. The studio brief asked to re-design the existing proposal to include all the missing elements and see how the original design would change after their inclusion.

Studio designers

Chen Shan, Chengjie Ding, Haoren Wang, Nils Stefan Rogel Carmona, Peter Winter, Ran Jiang, Richuan Chen