Siemensstadt 2.0, Berlin (DE)
New building,
Neighbourhood Development
Client: Siemensstadt Grundstücks GmbH & CoKG
Architecture: Dietrich Untertrifaller
Competition: 2019
Area: 700,000 m²
Programme: Research and production facilities, 2,750 flats, hotel, shops, restaurants and cafés, schools and kindergartens, leisure facilities and parks
Visualisation: Dietrich Untertrifaller
Team
Lucy Kalhofer, Benjamin Michels, Christina Schlüter, Michael Sohm
Text: Gerlinde Jüttner
Partners
Public space design: Schultze+Grassov, Kopenhagen
Building physics: Transsolar Energietechnik, Stuttgart
Traffic concept: MIC mobility in chain, Mailand
Landscape: Ramboll Studio Dreiseitl, Überlingen
Work, research and living
For Siemensstadt 2.0, we created a coherent masterplan for the 70-hectare industrial site in the west of Berlin, part of which is a listed building. The aim was to develop a sustainable neighbourhood that meets high standards of architectural quality, sustainability and economic efficiency.
The closed industrial area is to become a lively neighbourhood with research and production facilities, 2,750 flats, a hotel, shops, restaurants and cafés, schools and kindergartens as well as spacious leisure areas. The residential component will be concentrated in three areas of the site. The typological diversity of its building structure and the mixed ownership of rental flats, owner-occupied complexes and construction groups ensures its desirable social diversity of residents.
The vision for the new Siemensstadt Campus is a people-centred, lively, urban environment. Motorised private transport will therefore be largely reduced. The planned parking facilities are concentrated in peripheral multi-storey car parks. A fixed e-bus route and several stations with e-bikes and e-scooters are available for internal circulation. A shuttle will take all users to all locations within the site at any time of day
"The founding concept of Siemensstadt in 1897 was to combine work, research and living and thus create an intact symbiosis for a successful future. This is exactly what Siemensstadt 2.0 is all about."
Joe Kaeser, CEO of Siemens AG
Our guiding principles for urban development
A new identity-forming centre
Networking home and workplace, development and production, urbanity and nature
Innovation Boulevard as a new backbone and communicative focal point
Smooth transitions between the various ground floor uses such as hotel lobby, restaurants, shops, etc..
Switchgear hall at the centre of the innovation cluster with maximum flexible programming
Switchgear high-rise with loft-like working environments; glazed upper floors with new visitor centre
Spacious street with cafés, restaurants and shops as an interface between working and living
Garden city 2.0 on Paulsternstrasse – green courtyards and tenant gardens in the centre of the block plus community gardens
House of craftsmanship integrates living, hotel, working, production and car parking as a hybrid
Educational campus in the central park
