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Spatial Framework Blankenburg Süden, Berlin

Circular organization of four new residential areas where the landscape shapes the city

The area between Blankenburg Süden and Heinersdorf is a garden land in the green periphery north of Berlin, surrounded by farmland, scattered clusters of trees and allotment gardens.The current high pressure on residential facilities in Berlin is being addressed partly by densification of the city center and partly by developments in vacant areas on Berlin’s periphery. Blankenburg is designated as one of the largest expansion sites, covering an area of 150ha and providing up to 6000 new affordable and healthy homes for the people of Berlin.


Blankenburg Süden, Plan

Landscape City

A new city district is created that commits to a strong relationship with the surrounding landscape qualities and services such as water, food, energy, knowledge, raw materials, mobility & biodiversity. A “landscape city”, that adapts to the scale of the various cores in this green expanse. It does not become an independent, demarcated district, but emphatically fits into the context, strengthens existing cores and expands them. As a result the area also acquires the scale of communities in the vicinity.


"Land Shapes the City" - Water bodies become “Waterland”, fields & allotment gardens become “Garden Land” and ruderal forest wilderness becomes “Forestland".

Characteristic Landscapes

The new district is organized in four distinct quarters, based on specific landscape typologies. The Landscape City in effect is built up by neighborhoods as landscapes; the Waterland, Garden Land, Productive Land and the Forestland. Each landscape has its own specific focus, functionality and atmosphere. The various landscapes deal with circularity differently and are therefore complementary. Collectively, they form a circular piece of the city, intricately connected to its surroundings.

Waterland - For the southern residential neighborhood, the Waterland, we design rain gardens, and wooded slopes where you can pick your own berries.
Forestland - The Forestland also offers areas for gardening (“edible forest”: fruits, berries, herbs) as a recreational, health-promoting or learning experience.

Garden Land - The vegetable gardens of the Garden Land residential neighborhood in the west are places where knowledge is shared and communal neighborhood activities take place.

Productive Land - The Productive Land describes the new business park in the east of the area, where a circular approach to large-scale food production is realized on the roofs of commercial buildings.

Blue-Green, BIodiversity & Integrated Watersystems

Water-, Forest & Garden Land represent large-scale landscape spaces with natural conditions. Rainwater management functions according to sponge city and cascade principles. They form different ecosystems: dry, wet, high and low vegetation. The existing protected biotopes are preserved, as well as the existing ecosystem of water bodies. Stormwater management areas include blue-green roofs, swale-trench systems along streets, infiltrative pavements, and diverse urban wetlands.

Circularity

The goal is to create a district that makes a significant contribution to the water, energy and food supply, to an environmentally friendly mobility system, to resource-efficient production and to an intensive social exchange of the entire area. These various aspects will be integrated into each neighborhood as circular systems. This circularity also extends beyond the separate neighborhoods, enabling the entire area to contribute maximally to climate regulation, rainwater management, food production and to the enhancement of biodiversity.https://www.felixx.nl/media/files/1935-09-berlin-blankenburg-suden-diagram-circulair.jpg

Year

2020 - 2021

Location

Blankenburg Süden, Heinersdorf, Berlin

Type

Masterplan, Infrastructure, Landscape

Client

Senatsverwaltung für Stadtentwicklung und Wohnen, Berlin

Size

150 ha

Awards

2021 WLA Merit Award
2020 Competition winner

Team & partners

Michiel Van Driessche
Deborah Lambert
Marnix Vink
Nancy Smolka
Zofia Krzykawska
Eduardo Marin Salinas
Shailaja Shah
Maria E. Castrillo
Caro De Visscher
Cityförster

List
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  2. Oude Landen, Antwerpen
  3. Regulateur Gruno district
  4. Strategic Green Plan Leuven
  5. Leutje Leidraad, Groningen
  6. Rijnvliet, Edible Neighborhood
  7. S-West Eindhoven
  8. Vief Kwartier
  9. Eemsdelta Campus
  10. The Newton
  11. Astridplein, Antwerp
  12. Dennenheuvel, Bloemendaal
  13. Jonas Amsterdam
  14. K64 keflavík airport area masterplan
  15. Railroad Zone Amsterdam
  16. From node to place
  17. Masterplan Flora Campus Westland
  18. Alongside the Schie
  19. New Space - Design Guideline Liveability of Public Space, Groningen
  20. From Airport to Birdport
  21. Brabant Water, Eindhoven
  22. Brouwershaven
  23. Brainport Industries Campus
  24. Hondsrug Park Amsterdam
  25. Yangmeikeng Sea Boulevard
  26. Healthy Tracks
  27. Towards a healthy city by foot
  28. Floating Gardens, Amsterdam
  29. The Unbound Amsterdam
  30. Seaside Gardens, Gufunes
  31. Brainport Smart District Helmond
  32. The Swan, Zwolle (NL)
  33. Spatial Framework Blankenburg Süden, Berlin
  34. 'Typhoon-proof' Shenzhen's East Coast
  35. Circular City Bodø 2.0
  36. A green entrance for the airport
  37. Public Space Alpen
  38. Cartesius Quarter
  39. Historic Delfshaven
  40. Isle of Dikes
  41. Smakkelaarsveld Utrecht
  42. Darmstadt Masterplan 2030+
  43. Bao’An G107 Corridor
  44. Master Plan Ter Aar, Nieuwkoop
  45. Waterfront Novosibirsk
  46. Almazov National Medical Research Centre
  47. Strategic Urban Green Study
  48. Public Space Strategy Kanpur
  49. Quartierlandschaft Dietenbach
  50. ImageWharf
  51. Ódinstorg Square
  52. Overloon War Museum
  53. Lokhalle Leverkusen
  54. Ludlstrasse Munich
  55. Redevelopment Strategy Vogabyggð
  56. City life in the woods
  57. Schie Quarter Schiedam
  58. Socio-technical city of the future
  59. Buji River
  60. Vaskhnil Novosibirsk
  61. Precincts Canterbury Cathedral
  62. Maritime Campus Almere
  63. Resilient Riverscape Berat
  64. Sijthoff
  65. Strategic Plan Shkodra
  66. Ekaterinburg City Campus
  67. Transformation Strategy Gufunes
  68. Transformation Strategy Chelyabinsk
  69. Fish Market Leuven
  70. Zinder Culture Cluster
  71. Redevelopment plan Bergschenhoek centre
  72. Food Innovation Strip Ede-Wageningen
  73. S4 Highway Hangzhou
  74. Strategic Plan Fier
  75. Strategic Plan Elbasan
  76. Kronenburg Business Park
  77. Dharavi Mumbai
  78. Ásbrú Enterprise Park
  79. Asylum Seekers Center Ter Apel
  80. Berlin Am Volkspark
  81. The Museum of the 20th Century
  82. Gardabaer
  83. Metropolitan Westerpark Amsterdam
  84. Science and Technology City Chongqing
  85. Yue Xiu 353 Transformation
  86. 5YN3RGY
  87. Erlongshan Recreational Park
  88. Danxia Recreational Park
  89. Campus Lelystad
  90. Proto Tamansari
  91. City Gardens Tyumen
  92. Park Somerlust Amsterdam
  93. Bandar Lampung Park
  94. R&D Campus Fengxian
  95. Biodiversity based dairy farming
  96. Heidelberg Creative Quarter
  97. Barendrecht Vrouwenpolder
  98. Mobility transformation of Haarlem Europaweg
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