06 November 2010

Site!

Highlighted extent of my chosen site.  There are several Plattenbau apartments, including smaller buildings and a couple large ones.  Also, I've included the site of the wall, upper left, that is still currently unused.  I think I'm going to focus on recreating the spaces around the Plattenbau, in order to include them as a part of Berlin many would rather forget or ignore.  But I think it's also important to see how it affected when it meets the site of the, the even greater component of the memory of that era.

01 November 2010

Kreuzberg analysis

As can be seen, the war devastated the built structures in Kreuzberg.  The postwar
Plattenbauten were built around whatever structures were left.  Some blocks contain buildings from all ages.  There is still an abundance of open space near the wall area, cleared fro the “death strips” but now sits vacant.  Plans exist to fill in the space with similar scale development to the postwar buildings