UNLIVEABLE BERLIN TRAVELLING STUDIO

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1 UNLIVEABLE BERLIN TRAVELLING STUDIO

2 UNLIVEABLE BERLIN Unliveable Berlin is a University of Melbourne design studio, organised and run by Michael Roper (Director, Architecture Architecture). Running in second semester of 2018, this studio will take a group of masters students from architecture, landscape and urban design to the ANCB Metropolitan Laboratory in Berlin where they will explore and develop ideas for experimental housing projects. STUDIO THEME: VISIBLE HISTORIES Berlin has undergone several periods of trauma and transformation. Growing out of two world wars, living through three decades of east-west division followed by re-unifi cation, rebuilding and more recent bankruptcy, Berlin is riddled with the scars of its history. Politically caught between socialism and capitalism; physically, between the destruction of war and urban regrowth; culturally, between division and unity; this is a city coming to terms with its physical and cultural territories, revelling in the uncertainty of its future. STUDIO THEME: DESIGNING FOR INCLUSION Berlin has a history of social exclusion and ideological seclusion. In this context we ask, how does a city express its hostilities and how, as architects, can we foster cities of inclusion? With Berlin as our lab rat, we will consider what it means to accommodate the excluded, and to redress cultural hostilities through architecture and urban thinking. STUDIO THEME: A VISION FOR HOUSING Berlin is the heartland of Baugruppen, a model for housing that empowers ordinary citizens to design and fi nance their own apartment buildings. In Melbourne, the Nightingale movement is a revolution in housing inspired by Baugruppen. Students will have the opportunity to study and visit the Baugruppen projects, along with Berlin s other experimental housing movements from the 1950s (Hansaviertel) and 1980s (IBA). STUDIO OUTCOMES: GLOBAL THINKERS Stripped of well-worn reference points, the travelling studio encourages students to see with fresh eyes. They come to sense a city s unconscious its undercurrents developing instincts for the manifold cultural forces that drive a place. Through the travelling studio, we aim to foster broad, globalthinking problem solvers, versed in the physical mechanisms (infrastructural, geographical) and cultural forces (political and social) that underpin urban life. ANCB: A METROPOLITAN LABORATORY ANCB is the headquarters for an extensive international network of institutions and universities, supporting research and knowledge transfer in an environment where architects, planners, economists, philosophers, scientists, artists, engineers and ecologists come together to tackle the issues facing globalised urban environments. At ANCB, students will engage with a range of academics, researchers and specialists relevant to the themes of the studio. DATES Melbourne 23rd July 19th August Intensive research & design esquisses Berlin 20th 31st August Intensive exploration & design Melbourne 10th September > Complete design project. Reduced contact hours. COSTS Students will be expected to cover the costs of their fl ights, accommodation and living expenses as well as any additional activities undertaken in Berlin. Students may wish to apply for Global Mobility Fund sponsorship. MANAGING ELECTIVES Students will need to speak with their elective coordinators to ensure that they are able to be away from Melbourne for the dates listed above. HOW TO APPLY To apply, you will need to Michael Roper at mr@archarch.com.au and include the following: 150 word statement on who you are, why you are interested in the studio and what you would like to get out of it. A fi ve page folio containing work from previous design studios. STUDIO OUTLINE

3 DESIGN TUTOR AEDES BERLIN DIRECTOR NIGHTINGALE DIRECTOR BAUGRUPPEN ARCHITECT CO-HOUSING INITIATORTO BERLIN HISTORIAN ANCB BERLIN DIRECTOR HOUSING POLICY CO-HOUSING RESIDENT BERLIN ARCHITECT HOUSING AFFORDABILITY GRAPHIC DESIGNER STUDIO COLLABORATORS

4 ALVAR AALTO OSCAR NEIMEYER WALTER GROPIUS JOHN HEDJUK ALVARO SIZA ZAHA HADID KADEN KLINGBEIL HEIDE & VON BECKERATH HERMAN HERTZBERGER LE CORBUSIER MIES VAN DER ROHE DAVID CHIPPERFIELD BERLIN: HOUSING PROJECTS

5 BERLIN: SITES OF SIGNIFICANCE

6 BERLIN: ARCHITECTURE

7 REFERENCE TEXTS

8 REFERENCE FILMS

9 THEME: VISIBLE HISTORIES

10 THEME: DESIGNING FOR INCLUSION

11 IMAGE (250/300 dpi, PDF) THEME: A VISION FOR HOUSING

12 CORRIDORS BERLIN IS AN URBAN METROPOLIS WITH A LARGE POPULATION THAT IS ALWAYS ON THE MOVE. THE STREETS, ROADS, HIGHWAYS, SUBWAYS, BICYCLE LANES AND PEDESTRIAN LANEWAYS SERVE AS ACTIVE CORRIDORS AND SPACES IN WHICH CONVERSATION TAKES PLACE. LIKENED TO THE BODY, THESE CORRIDORS SUPPLY THE CITY WITH A RICH AND DIVERSE CULTURAL IDENTITY AND FORM PART OF BERLIN S UNIQUE URBAN MORPHOLOGY. WITH A CITY THAT HOLDS AS MUCH SIGNIFICANCE IN HISTORY AND CULTRE AS BERLIN, THESE CORRIDORS ARE PHYSICAL ARCHIVES WHICH EMBODY THE CULTURE AND SPIRIT OF THE CITY. ARCHIPELAGO THOUGH MANY IDENTIFY ALEXANDERPLATZ AND POSTDAMER PLATZ AS BEING BERLIN S CITY CENTRES, THE CITY IS IN FACT MORE OF AN ARCHIPELAGO OF DISTRICTS AND CLUSTERS OF CULTURAL COMMUNITIES EACH WITH ITS OWN UNIQUE IDENTITY. EVIDENT IN THE WAY ITS CULTURAL PRECINCTS AND PROGRAMS ARE SCATTERED ACROSS THE CITY, BERLIN S IDENTITY IS ONE THAT IS PHYSICALLY FRAGMENTED BUT COVERTLY UNIFIED. AIDED BY THE EXTENSIVE NETWORKS OF CORRIDORS, ONE STUMBLES UPON POCKETS OF CULTURE AND ACTIVITY CENTRES THROUGHOUT THE CITY. HACKESCHE HOFE IS ONE OF IF NOT BERLIN S MOST NOTABLE COMPLEX WHICH IS ESSENTIALLY AN ARCHIPELAGO OF PROGRAMS THAT CONSISTS OF RESIDENTIAL APARTMENTS, CRAFTS, TRADE AND CULTURE. COURTYARDS IN GERMANY, THE TERM CORRESPONDING TO TENEMENT IS MIETSKASERNE (RENTAL BARRACKS) AND THE CITY MOST WELL KNOWN FOR THIS IS BERLIN. REFERRED TO AS THE LARGEST TENEMENT CITY IN THE WORLD. THE COURTYARD BLOCKS WERE BUILT IN RESPONSE TO A RAPID INCREASE IN POPULATION BETWEEN 1860 AND 1914, A SIGNIFICANT PORTION OF THE CITY S URBAN FABRIC CONSISTS OF THIS BUILDING TYPOLOGY. THESE BUILDINGS ARE ALMOST ALWAYS 5 STOREYS HIGH DUE TO THE MUNDATED MAXIMUM HEIGHT BY THE STATE S BUILDING REGULATIONS. THESE COURTYARD HOUSING BLOCKS ARE OBSERVABLY VERY LARGE AND ARE IN THEMSELVES INDIVIDUAL COMMUNITIES. THE LARGEST AND MOST FAMOUS OF THESE WAS MEYERS HOF IN GESUNDBRUNNEN WHICH AT THE TIME HOUSED UP TO 2000 PEOPLE. THE COURTYARD/TENEMENT BLOCKS, THOUGH MADE TO ACCOMMODATE THE LOWER CLASS, FOSTER INTERACTION THROUGH ITS PLANNING, PERMIT NATURAL LIGHT AND HAVE GOOD CROSS VENTILATION THAT REGULATES TEMPERATURES ALL YEAR ROUND. LANDSCAPE SCATTERED THROUGHOUT THE CITY ARE A LARGE NUMBER OF PUBLIC SPACES AND PARKS WHICH CONTRIBUTES TOWARDS BERLIN S OPENESS AND SENSE OF PUBLIC DEMOCRACY DESPITE IT BEING SOMEHWAT DENSELY POPULATED WITH ITS TENEMENT BLOCKS. OFTEN THE SITE OF PUBLIC EVENTS, GIGS AND FESTIVALS, THESE PARKS AND OPEN SPACES ARE SEEN TO BE PLACES OF CULTURAL ACTIVITIES. AS THESE PROGRAMS ARE OFTEN SPONTANEOUS AND AD HOC, THEY FORM AN IMPORTANT PART OF BERLIN S IDENTITY. SIMIILAR TO MELBORUNE TO SOME EXTENT, BERLIN IS A CITY IDENTITFIED THROUGH ITS SPACES, PLACES AND VOIDS, AND NOT WITH ITS FUNCTIONAL AND PROGRAMMATIC PREOCCUPATIONS. IT IS THIS QUALITY THAT MAKES THE LANDSCAPE DIVERSE AND CULTURAL SIGNIFICANCE. B. A. A. C. A. A. A. T. B. B. C. U. M. C. C. ANCB SECOND FLOOR PLAN 1:500 E. E. D. D. G. N. F. Q, H. A. H. C. F. G. S. G. I. L. R. L. H. D. M. J. C. D. K. N. K. I. P. I. J. O. ANCB FIRST FLOOR PLAN 1:500 LOWER GROUND FLOOR PLAN 1:500 GROUND FLOOR PLAN 1:500 OUTCOME: GLOBAL THINKERS

13 ANCB CAMPUS, BERLIN