The Landsberger Allee Master Plan
“The design, developed from the extreme polarities of order and disorder, opts for the substance that lies between and from which the vitality of everyday life is created. Conveyed by an interest in the political aspects of space, the project addresses strategic questions about accelerated growth, density, and ecology, as well as new urban planning prospects for areas regarded as seedy urban backyards for far too long. It acknowledges that these areas are important resources for future possibilities, and that they should be considered now.” […] “Planning is no longer merely a question of manifestos or utopian nostalgia that is focused on the future or the past. Present-day concerns must be addressed. The task of urban planning is to develop strategies that express the inseparability of freedom and continuity, form and content, and investment and potential within a complex framework. These problems can no longer be solved by formalist aesthetics or static systems. They have to be dealt with in a substantive and qualitative way as part of an evolutionary contour of new urban planning, the scale of which is a transformed and contemporary Europe.”
Extract from: Daniel Libeskind (1995): Daniel Libeskind Architectural Studio et al. (1995, 5) Landsberger Allee/ Rhinstraße. Vorbereitung zum Bebauungsplan Juli-November 1995; Berlin (p.p. the Senate Department for Urban Development and Environmental Protection).
“Within the scope of the composition, the design creates a variety of gardens and landscapes which are to be dealt with in different ways with regard to their overall design, use of vegetation, and utilisation. As they are interrelated, the spaces engage in a dialogue with one another. In their entirety they form a cross-section through different types of urban landscape. In an analogy to the urban design approach of representing how the many diverse ideals interlock with one another as a mechanism, and of referring to the realm of possibilities by employing heterogeneous, complementing components, the open space is understood as planning that tends to be open, and in which the areas, which are quite individual in their design, can meet and interact.” […] In a landscape architectural sense, ‘green areas of identification’ have been created “which, modelled after the nuts and bolts of the urban land use structure, characterise the important areas between buildings and relate them to the buildings’ uses. The arrangement of the spaces is based on an internal dialogue between usage and design.”
Extract from: Müller, Knippschild, Wehberg and Louafi (1995): Entwurfskonzeption der Außenanlagen im Rahmen der Vorbereitung zur Bebauungsplanung/ Grünordnungsplan Landsberger Allee/ Rhinstraße, in: Daniel Libeskind Architectural Studio et al. (1995, 43) Landsberger Allee/ Rhinstraße. Vorbereitung zum Bebauungsplan Juli- November 1995; Berlin (p.p. the Senate Department for Urban Development and Environmental Protection).
Urban Development Competition Landsberger Allee/ Rhinstraße - Berlin
Architecture: Daniel Libeskind Architectural Studio u.a.
Landscape architecture: Müller, Knippschild, Wehberg und Louafi