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16.08.2023

perspectives- 1- IBA 1987 social housing in Berlin West

SOCIAL HOUSING IN WEST BERLIN – INTERNATIONAL BUILDING EXHIBITION BERLIN 1987 – THE INNER CITY AS A PLACE TO LIVE – The LiMa Wohnhof Berlin was built as part of the IBA in the years 1984-86. LiMa is flanked by two residential buildings which, together with LiMa, open up and connect the southern tip of […]

16.08.2023

perspectives- 2- Post War West Berlin

POST-WAR RECONSTRUCTION OF WESTBERLIN DURING THE COLD WAR When the World was divided by Walls between East and West between 1982-86, a dreamy and other-worldly LiMa Residential Court was created not too far from Checkpoint Charlie, the American border crossing.

16.08.2023

perspectives - 3 - neighborhood

NEIGHBORHOOD Lima residents partake of a private trade and share economy to this day. For example, I sometimes find free-range eggs or a pail of freshly picked apples outside my front door. If I have too many, I share them.  I think of others.  An architecture of possibilities as well as the shaping through self-construction, […]

16.08.2023

perspectives - 4 - climate change

CLIMATE CHANGE We will soon be so tightly in the grip of global warming that in the heart of the now city, each centimeter of green that’s being built over, will be protected like the apple of one’s eye.

16.08.2023

perspectives - 5 - the habitat is moving

The spaces we live in are organisms in progress. Organisms mesh, become entangled, or wedged in cooperative relationships.  When global temperatures rise complex systems change. Regions become deserts, glaciers melt, oceans rise, resulting in flooding and washing away settlements. Ecological systems, the diversity among all living organisms within and between the species, die.  The spaces […]

16.08.2023

perspectives - 6 - adaptation and mitigation - a global concept -

adaptation and mitigation – strategies for global warming The concept developed by the United Nations (UN) for dealing with global warming caused by exploitation, which has triggered weather chaos and global climate change, is referred to as adaptation and mitigation. On the one hand, people have to adapt to the unstoppable changes, and on the […]

16.08.2023

perspectives - 7 - social and green city housing - sustainable urban communities

social and green cityhousing – sustainable urban communities in the city of tomorrow In an age of climate change, increasing environmental degradation and the threat of a decline in long-established mixed social communities in cities, we are committed to ensuring that LiMa and the accompanying residential buildings are preserved and further developed as social and […]

16.08.2023

perspectives - 8 - maintaining and developing

MAINTAINING AND DEVELOPING LiMa and its neighboring houses and gardens can be the City of Tomorrow ! social – green – vital – open – for all people –

16.08.2023

perpectives - 9 - self governance - green cooperatives

SELF-HELP IN TIMES OF CLIMATE CHANGE Programs can enable people to get in touch with nature and help themselves with rising food prices. People can get creative in finding their own solutions that they can manage in their everyday lives. Plant cultivation and wildlife each have their own rules that need to be explored. When […]

16.08.2023

perpectives - 10 - cosmos and biodiversity

COSMOS The existing north-south and east-west in LiMa Wohnhof exposures with corresponding weather and light exposure can accommodate a large biodiversity in the ensemble.    

16.08.2023

perpectives - 11- microclimate -

DEVELOPMENT OF MICROCLIMATES IN THE CITY To support biodiversity and the microclimate that mitigates extreme heat, the roofs and facades of buildings can be greened and additionally cultivated through vertical and horizontal planting. We dont need expensive maintaining. We learn to observe which plants adapt. Each house wall has its own microclimate. We are working […]

16.08.2023

perspectives - 12 - the natural balance -

THE NATURAL BALANCE Social and green city dwellings may serve as schools for observing nature in the city.  They are simultaneously living and learning sites. In teaching kitchens, nursery’s and research groups on biodiversity people especially children can experiment with planting, composting, cooking, presenting storage and conserving. We can create together workshops, that will help […]

16.08.2023

perspectives - 13 - strenthen public spaces and a shared democratic citizenship -

strengthen public spaces and common spaces of shared democratic citizenship We can produce for our own consumption fruits, vegetables, herbs, honey, fruit spreads and meals from the green city residences but can also be sold on street kitchens and peoples’ – markets in front of the buildings. This is especially good for children, adolescents and […]

16.08.2023

Perspectives - 14 - open mindedness - no demolition -

OPEN MINDEDNESS – NO DEMOLITION – Our life in the city is increasingly affected by property/land speculation, climate hostile construction/building, suppressing/displacing of social housing space, increasing through traffic and the accompanying noise and fine dust as well as the effects of climate change.  We don’t want demolition in our neighborhood. We should not be evasive. […]

16.08.2023

perpectives - 15 - partizipation in a global world

PARTIZIPATION IN A GLOBAL WORLD In the style of the climate declarations and UN-sustainability declarations on inclusive and resilient cities, the creation of a Citizens Council for Biotopic Concepts and Climate Justice in Cities,  offers one possibility for citizens to articulate their interests in public. In this way, it is possible to connect with experts […]

16.08.2023

perspectives - 16 - geology of a city -

GEOLOGY OF A CITY left the Lindenstrasse, one of the oldest streets in Berlin, heads southwest descending in to a depression where water and air collects.

16.08.2023

perspectives - 17 - the glacial valley -

THE VALLEY These humid lowlands stretches northwest to Lutzow Square.

16.08.2023

perspectives - 18 - the prussian residential city - southern Friedrichstadt

THE SOUTHERN FRIEDRICHSTADT was developed as an extension of the Prussian residential city of Berlin at the beginning of the 18th century in a swamp.

16.08.2023

perspectives - 19 - the construction of a climate balance -

THE CONSTRUCTION OF A CLIMATE BALANCE If we look and listen more closely, we can still perceive the wet lowlands and swamps of this glacial valley with its early mists and flocks of crows. Today the southern Friedrichstadt Markgrafenstraße in the center of the city develops during the summer a pocket of heat here with […]

16.08.2023

perspectives - 20 - city biotope southern Friedrichstadt -

 THE CITY BIOTOPE  SOUTHERN FRIEDRICHSTADT With the support of interdisciplinary scientists, we could test on site and practice if and how a partial reconstruction of the city’s natural landscape, destroyed by paving and crowding of the area, increases its ability to adapt In such a developing City biotope Southern Friedrichstadt nestled between a reduced-speed traffic […]