GROW+LOOK+EAT :: PLANTATION PARK AT TEMPELHOF

MASTER PLAN

\\\ living in a green farming area: buildings are surrounded by green spaces and farming areas

\\\ offering a spectacular and attractive living space: more and more people get conscious about health and consumption

\\\ additional farming for partial feeding the residents and visitors 

\\\ plantation park as an adventure for everyone

\\\ autonomy in terms of energy (solar energy, geothermal heating and cooling and wind power) 

\\\ car free transportation by use of bicycles, car sharing with electric vehicles, and pedestrian scale zoning

\\\ creating an attractive street system which is comfortable for slower transportation like bicycles and pedestrians

ECONOMIC INTENT

\\\ saving money through independence from the energy grid of Berlin

\\\ saving construction materials by shared community areas

ECOLOGICAL INTENT

\\\ using low carbon materials like steel, wood, and local materials

\\\ using renewable energy (geothermal heating and cooling, wind power, solar energy)

\\\ create an ecological environment by farming areas next to housing areas

\\\ green facades to produce oxygen and to grow vegetables right next to the balcony (vertical farming)

SOCIAL INTENT

\\\  encourage consciousness for the environment, consumption, low carbon life style and climate change through a new housing environment that uses the energy it produces

\\\ identification by individual designs and indentity through „baugemeinschaften“ (community building)

\\\ community living in shared spaces by old, young, handicaped people living together

ARCHITECTURAL INTENT

\\\ low carbon materials 

\\\ solar panels as a designing element

\\\ additional farming on the facades