TU Berlin / Architecture of Transformation

In a single-family home, what is your own is essential: your own four walls include your own garden, your own car in your own garage on your own land. In view of the climate crisis, the lack of living space and more diverse lifestyles, however, the most popular form of housing is under criticism: the associated consumption of materials, energy and space is too great and its space and property structures are not flexible enough.

The Co-MaKaBi design studio at the Technical University of Berlin therefore sees the future of the single-family home in sharing what is your own. To this end, the qualities of the existing building stock and everyday practices of sharing are being further developed and architecturally radicalized in the Berlin districts of Mahlsdorf, Kaulsdorf and Biesdorf (MaKaBi) in order to enable surprisingly dense, lively and communal living in Germany's largest single-family home area.

To this end, expanded and more open models of living together are being developed in exchange with residents, which are based on the sharing and joint use of spaces and social services. In selected settlement areas, spatial concepts are being developed that enrich the existing stock with new programs, community functions and forms of housing. New soil sealing is being avoided. Particular attention is being paid to robust and flexible spatial solutions that are being considered together with energy-efficient renovation concepts. In the same way, alternatives to the private ownership model are being investigated and new financing models are being developed.

The aim of the design project is to develop long-term solutions that can be transferred into practice and that reduce resource consumption per capita while simultaneously increasing socio-spatial quality.

Architectural conception and supervision: Nanni Grau, Jan Engelke
Economic conception and supervision: Paul van der Kuil
Conception and realization of the exhibition: Nanni Grau, Jan Engelke, Luisa Fiedler, Mira Rothländer
Designs: Luis Baumann, Rasmus Ehlers, Nina Ellrich, Seida Feldheim, Heerke Harken, Jakob Honz, Simon Josuttis, Linus Krug, Oline Kuhlmann, Marius Mühleisen, Rico Reinold, Sebastian Reinicke, Lia Reimann, Elise Schreck, Fynn Schaper, Marlene Wiesermann, Antonia Walz, Contantin Wragge, Joseph Tuegel, Elias Trabucchi, Maximilian Zalewski

Opening: 20.2.2025, 7 pm

Welcome:
Ulrich Müller (Architektur Galerie Berlin)
Talk:
Prof. Nanni Grau (TU Berlin)
Dr. Jan Engelke (TU Munich)
21 master's students from TU Berlin
Renée Somnitz (Selbstbau e.G.)
Juliane Witt (district councilor for Marzahn-Hellersdorf, Die Linke)
Andreas Geisel (member of the Berlin House of Representatives, SPD)