4.1 Neu Venice 2070 - 100 years of (greater) Berlin international urban design ideas competition Berlin-Brandenburg 2070

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Neu Venice 2070

100 years of (greater) Berlin international urban design ideas competition Berlin-Brandenburg 2070

co-author: Pan Punnathorn; fErnanDa chua; chia-an, YEn; Kai-Yung, chEng YEars: novEmbEr 2020 location: bErlin, gErmanY / taiwan The project was the first urban design case in the academic training year. The project base on the International Urban Design Ideas Competition for Berlin-Brandenburg 2070, which is not to create a completely different, new metropolitan region but to develop and improve the existing framework by building on its special strengths, features, and peculiarities.

The main objective of the International Urban Design Ideas Competition for Berlin-Brandenburg 2070 is not to create a completely different, new metropolitan region beside or within the space occupied by the existing one, but to develop and improve the existing framework by building on its special strengths, features, and peculiarities. With a fundamentally outstanding transport network, diversity of centres, housing stock of above-average quality, and comparative lack of urban sprawl in its hinterland, the metropolitan region possesses ideal preconditions for future development. These need to be identified, maintained, developed and improved. The present situation concerning the five key issues, diversity of centres, transport, housing, rich green space, major projects (substantial industrial plants, inland ports, airfields, parade grounds.)

After years of stagnation, dynamism is returning to the Berlin-Brandenburg region: population growth, new flows of commuters and goods, new quarters and housing developments, a new rail map, a radically new airport arrangement a growing public transport system. Berlin is a metropolis, its integrated hinterland extending far beyond its administrative boundaries.

A broad public debate is necessary, ranging from sustainable planning of growth across the region to individual neighbourhoods’ specific role within the growing metropolis. Berlin-Brandenburg is seeking urban planning visions and ideas for the future. The competition is rooted in the European metropolitan region concept as a political, social, economic, and cultural project. Achieving sustainable development means bringing together past and future in an integrated approach.

Figure 4.1.1 Spandau location

Basic Analysis

Figure 4.1.2 Canal width

Figure 4.1.4 Basic analysis Figure 4.1.3 Main canal

Figure 4.1.5 Food and shopping space analysis

Figure 4.1.6 Park and green space analysis Figure 4.1.7 Water management and paths analysis

Figure 4.1.8 Ground surface analysis & land use

Figure 4.1.9 Water type and sewer management system

Figure 4.1.11 Social node analysis Figure 4.1.10 Water and major land use

Figure 4.1.12 Flooding map

Issue Analysis

Geography

Low topology and wetland drainage have led to flooding in the area

Connections between the locals and the states Lack of multifunctional green space for urban life and facing flooding Havel’s lakes and wetland funnel into intense urbanisation and low transport networks, segregating Havilland and the Berlin city area.

Community

Tourism

Tiefworder has the potential to be a tourist site (little Venice) but is not wellknown

No attempt to integrate Spandau Citadel into the rest of the city. It is inaccessible via public transport and lacks activities.

Memories

Continuity battles and occupied in the history

Commercialisation of waterways

Segregation between economic classes, as yacht parking and water activities, commercialise Havel’s lakes

Spree is dominated by industrial use

Water Mismanagement

While flooding occurs in the area, Brandenburg below experiences water shortage. Water discharge from the wastewater plant worsens flooding

Land Surfaces

Urban land surfaces are lacking in water retention, leading to flooding