Berlin Atlas 4

In its 4th edition, the exhibition with collages by invited architects and other planners once again asks about the potential of an important but nevertheless overlooked infrastructure structure for the future development of the city. After the scenarios for the recovery of the A103 as an urban space and for the expansion of the Tegel-Friedrichsfelde industrial railway to an S-Bahn line, this time we turn to the Teltow Canal. The 38 km long giant structure from 1906 is largely ignored. We are asking for suggestions on how a city of tomorrow - to take up the term from Interbau 1957 - could deal with the urban, industrial and landscape space of the Teltow Canal.

We are interested in the places along the canal qualitatively. Can they be the starting point for a design practice that counteracts the boundless, monotonous urban sprawl - and thus creates new parts of the city that offer space for the needs of a diverse society?

Maxime should be an architecture that works with what is there and at the same time criticizes what is there. An architecture that transforms, overcomes, integrates, remodels, supplements, amputates, juxtaposes, alienates, misinterprets, exaggerates, coarsens or refines, condenses and releases. An architecture that criticizes affirmatively - by showing possibilities. The architectural collage is a classic representation technique, but also an instrument that can stimulate, play through and convey the confrontation with what exists.

The current contributions to the exhibition are summarized in the 4th volume of the Berlin Atlas publication, supplemented by photos, project descriptions and site plans.

Vernissage: 15.10.2024, 7 pm 
Pia Maier Schriever (architect), Ulrich Brinkmann (architect, Bauwelt), Jörg Pampe (architect)

Finissage: 5.12.2024, 7 pm