After the introductory studio project in the first semester, the Typology Studio which is ‘MONUMENTS OF THE PERIPHERY’ for this term, the following studio projects are offered by the different chairs of the architectural faculty.
These selectable design studios are re-scheduled each semester by the program coordinators and partially coincide with the regular English study program of the other Master’s program in Architecture. Below you’ll find an overview of all design studios offered for the summer term 24.
The KVV including more detailed information is also to be found here.
The Socio-Ecological Renewal of Prefab Housing Typologies
The design studio critically revisits the transformative ideas for ecology and solidarity from IBA’84 as well as from the international eco-movement and experimentally translates the findings to the contemporary context of modernist mass housing neighborhoods for the future IBA’34. Focusing on the socio-political challenges as well as on their systemic potentials, the studio aims at the development of diverse strategies for the transformation of the repetitive, rigid, and anonymized blocks into a solidarity, adaptive and hybrid eco-typology.
In a comparative approach, the studio will examine the same type in a rural (Brandenburg) as well as in an urban context (Berlin). Besides questions of ownership, governance, and collectivity, the studio will intensively investigate the integration of the building metabolism (water, energy, heating, waste) in the architecture and its surrounding eco-systems.
Course Information
Design Studio 1/2 + PIV Integrative Seminar
12 + 3 ECTS
Contact
WM Tobias Schrammek, Prof. Nanni Grau
Architecture of Transformation
Human settlements can be rethought in the interest of reducing resource consumption while enhancing the human potential for progress through new sharing models leading to health, happiness and well being. Taking note of the growing imbalances in current urbanisation, the studio will use integral thinking thereby addressing environmental, social and economic impacts of development. New models of living will be envisaged with a greater
sense of community where self-reliant people can live together in a relatively small area and yet find the diversity and all the useful services that can be accessed by foot. These projects could be primarily built out of local materials and local skills improving thereby local economy, while reducing the environmental impact.
The studio will investigate urban co-housing prototypes with a focus on redefinition of private and shared spaces in the context of community living. The context of the project is Berlin, where co-housing will build on previous collective living experiences and explore new models of living alongside an emerging urban future in terms of mobility, circular economy and green infrastructure.
Our design studio will incorporate the JOANES-Preis student competition, focusing on designing future-oriented cooperative housing (genossenschaftlicher Wohnungsbau) with commercial spaces on the ground floor for a real site in Berlin. The design ideas from the winning projects will be further developed by the participating students in a workshop process during the summer of 2025.
Course Information
Design Studio 1/2 + PIV Integrative Seminar
12 + 3 ECTS
Contact
Prof. Anupama Kundoo
Architecture and Design Methods
Berlin as a migrant and activist city
The modern history of Berlin is shaped by various events: war, fascism, destruction, rehabilitation, protests, social movements, activism and migration. In this studio, we would like to focus on two of these aspects: activism and migration. The city is renowned for its openness and diversity, and has been a magnet for people from across the globe, creating both a rich and conflictive territory where multiple stories and narratives co-exist. Alongside its diverse population, Berlin’s history of political upheaval and social change has cultivated a robust spirit of activism. From the resistance movements during the Cold War to contemporary advocacy for social justice, affordable housing, environmental sustainability, and human rights, Berliners are renowned for their engagement and activism.
In this context, active participation of citizens in decisions regarding urban policies and city planning has been at the center of many struggles. Despite the existence of effective mechanisms and tools for societal participation, the active engagement of its citizens is not equally performed. Many issues contribute to this imbalance – cultural barriers, language, age, among others. Teenagers are often disregarded in participation processes. It is extremely important to engage them since they are the ones who will actually experience and be affected by urban transformation. By working with different groups of teenagers we aim to both understand their perspective and contribute to create self-awareness of their role in urban planning and design.
In cooperation with writer Ellen Schindler, author of “Metro 010”, we will explore through different collaborative methodologies the spatial experience and imagination of teenagers from different social groups. During the Studio we will co-develop spatial narratives and re-design a manifesto for participation of teenagers in urban planning and design.
Course Information
Design Studio 1/2 + PIV Integrative Seminar
12 + 3 ECTS
Contact
Prof. Dr. Anke Hagemann
Habitat Unit, International Urbanism and Design
Enablers for resilient mobility services in urban and peri-urban areas
The transformation of cities towards sustainable and inclusive development is a key objective of global agendas such as the SDGs or the New Urban Agenda. If an integrated policy and planning approach is applied, there is substantial potential to improve urban access, air quality, safety, and quality of life in cities and reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The transformative urban living lab studio at TU Berlin is designed to support this process by focusing on improving urban mobility solutions and connectivity and fostering local innovation to contribute to sustainable urban development.
The design studio aims to foster co-creation and the transfer of knowledge and innovative ideas between universities and the private and public sectors. In cooperation with local municipalities and universities, we address key urban challenges by embedding sustainable, new and shared mobility into urban and peri-urban settings. This work incorporates local solutions in partner cities across the globe with physical and digital design concepts tested in leading Living Labs.
The studio is is taught majorly online, guided by international partners and linked to study groups of other partner universities in the Urban Living Lab Center (ULLC) context. It is implemented in collaboration with the ULLC, which is a Collaborating Center of the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat). It is co-hosted by Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), the Technische Universität Berlin, the Wuppertal Institute, and regional partner universities and network partners, who will contribute to the design studio.
Course Information
Design Studio 1/2 + PIV Integrative Seminar
12 + 3 ECTS
Contact
Prof. Dr. Anke Hagemann
Habitat Unit, International Urbanism and Design
(Economy of Scarcity, part I)
Potsdamer Platz is considered one of Berlin‘s most famous ‚squares‘, where the myth of the „Golden Twenties,“ the division of Germany as well as the metropolitan euphoria of the 1990s can be traced. The most ambitious urban development project of the reunification brings together a surreal ensemble of buildings by star architects, that — continuing the approach of the IBA of 1987— was also intended to be a model project for urban ecology.
Today, Potsdamer Platz is confronted with large vacancies — not only in the retail spaces. The studio is taking this initial situation as an opportunity to make the entire area between the Kulturforum and Leipziger Platz the object of a comprehensive reassessment and redesign: The creation of housing, the further development of the urban ecological concept of a local circular economy, the reprogramming of the open spaces, the reinterpretation of Potsdamer Platz as a media location — all these are possible approaches of the studio, which aims to combine a large number of individual projects into a collective large-scale plan.
Course Information
Design Studio 1/2 + PIV Integrative Seminar
12 + 3 ECTS
Contact
Prof. Silvan Linden
Architektur und urbane Typologien
(de)
Wettbewerbe waren seit jeher Teil der Architekturproduktion und -vermittlung. Diese Disziplin, innerhalb kürzester Zeit Entwürfe zu produzieren und darzustellen, nimmt aufgrund ihrer Intensität eine Sonderrolle in unserem Beruf ein: Nachtschichten, Koffeinmissbrauch und Nervenzusammenbrüche. Aber muss das so sein?
Wir werden entgegen der üblichen Praxis innerhalb von einem Semester nicht durchgängig an einem einzigen Entwurf arbeiten, sondern mehrere thematisch voneinander unabhängige Stegreifentwürfe auf Wettbewerbsniveau entwickeln, um das schnelle Entwerfen, intuitive Entscheidungsprozesse und effizientes Darstellen der eigenen Ideen zu trainieren.
(en)
Competitions have always been part of architectural production and communication. This discipline of producing and presenting designs in the shortest possible time plays a special role in our profession due to its intensity: Night shifts, caffeine abuse and nervous breakdowns. But does it have to be like this?
Contrary to standard practice, we will not work continuously on a single design within a semester, but will develop several thematically independent impromptu designs at competition level in order to practise fast design, intuitive decision-making processes and efficient presentation of our own ideas.
Course Information
Design Studio 1/2 + PIV Integrative Seminar
12 + 3 ECTS
Contact
Prof. Ralf Pasel-Krautheim
Design and building construction –Constructions and practices
