Zukunft am Ostkreuz
For 10 years now, the ›Zukunft am Ostkreuz‹ has played an important role as a link and hub of the Berlin cultural landscape at its location in Laskerkiez, Berlin-Friedrichshain. In 2011, an open-air cinema and a pub with a spacious beer garden were built in the ruins of a former film warehouse, which were later followed by two more cinemas, a theater and several stages for concerts and other events. In these years and until the rental contract termination in March 2022, a spatially heterogeneous cultural site was created, which encouraged networking and exchange between creative people and lovers of culture from art, film, music and theater.
With the perspective of a new building on the site and the re-design of the open spaces, the special character of the place should not only be maintained through the principle of ›community-based design‹, but also be further developed in a positive way in cooperation with the owner.
For this purpose, an upstream, conceptual test and variance planning was carried out, which could be deepened in a cooperative workshop process.
At the same time, the all-over narrative for the development and the implementation strategy were deepened.
The outcome of the workshop resulted in a building vision that contains qualitative and quantitative statements on structural and programmatic potential and represents a basis for future negotiations with the property owner.
The results of this compact process can be viewed here.
Location
Berlin-Friedrichshain
Realisation period
October 2021
Client
District Office of Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg, LokalBau Plattform
Cooperation partner
AKS Gemeinwohl
Illustration
Studio Malta, Cristina Estanislao
Photos
Workshop: Studio Malta
Location: Maren Michaelis, Zukunft am Ostkreuz
Project space
›Lobby‹ of Urbane Praxis
Documentation (in German)
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