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16 – 24 JANUARY _ PUBLIC PARTICIPATION IN LAND-USE PLANNING

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You have the opportunity to participate in the planning for the Quartier Am Humboldthain as part of the public consultation. This is a procedural step stipulated in the German Building Code as part of formal public participation in urban land-use planning (Section 3 (2) BauGB). The development plan, together with the explanatory memorandum and the main environmental comments already submitted, will be on public display for a period of one month. Comments can be submitted during this period. This is possible by submitting comments on one of the websites listed below or by sending an email to bebauungsplan@ba-mitte.berlin.de. Alternatively, they can also be sent by post to Bezirksamt Mitte von Berlin, Stadtentwicklungsamt, Müllerstr. 146, 13353 Berlin. The comments will be included in the final weighing of public and private interests against and among each other.

The development plan, together with the explanatory statement and all available documents, is published on the Internet at https://www.berlin.de/ba-mitte, as well as on the participation platform of the state of Berlin: https://mein.berlin.de

In addition to publication on the Internet, the participation documents are on public display in the foyer of the Schiller Library (Wedding) and can be viewed there:

Period: 16 December 2024 to 24 January 2025
Opening hours: Monday to Friday from 10 a.m. to 7.30 p.m., Saturdays 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Location: Schiller Library, Müllerstr. 149, 13353 Berlin.

 

 

→ Press release by the district (de)

Artists Inside / Group Exhibition im QAH

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The Artists Inside Fellowship is a multidisciplinary fellowship program with a focus on further education and networking. Artists Inside supports emerging artists under the age of 35 who are based in Berlin. The fellowship program consists of further education and funding opportunities in the areas of the art market, communication, finance and law.

In addition, the sponsored artists have the opportunity to exchange ideas and network with alumni and established artists about challenges and opportunities during studio visits.

The highlight of the program is a joint group exhibition which took place this year on 16 November in the Quartier Am Humboldthain (in the Nixdorf building).

 

Winner 2024: Ann-Kathrin Kluss, Amrita Dhillon, Arhun Aksakal, Elisa Jule Braun, Jonas Brinker, Linus Beckmann, Lola von der Gracht, Marie Salcedo Horn, Miji Ih, Zhenia Stepanenko

Artists Inside e.V. is a non-profit association that supports young art in Berlin.

The aim of the association is to build a sustainable network together with the fellows, alumni, members and sponsors and to create a position in the art landscape based on equal opportunities, community and integration.

The fellowship focuses on imparting knowledge and expanding one’s own network in the contemporary art scene. The 10 selected artists will be supported for a year with a comprehensive range of further training and support. At the final group exhibition, 100 percent of all sales proceeds go to the artists.

 

www.artists-inside.com

DAS QAH IM STADTENTWICKLUNGS – AUSSCHUSS DER BVV MITTE

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The ‘Committee for Urban Development and Facility Management’ of the Berlin Mitte District Assembly (BVV Mitte for short) deals with specific topics and projects relating to urban and open space development in the district at its monthly meetings.

On 9 October 2024 – following the presentation in September 2022 – we once again had the opportunity to present the now more advanced planning status for the Am Humboldthain district to the committee members from the individual parliamentary groups.

 

The focus was on the future commercial uses within the site’s character as Berlin’s future location. The focus on networking and future technologies is also reflected in the planned establishment of a start-up centre. Once again, the final concept of the masterplan and the green and open space planning – developed and presented by the architecture and planning office Cobe (Copenhagen) – also highlighted the project’s high sustainability ambitions, confirmed by the DGNB platinum pre-certificate for sustainable business districts.

16.10.24 _ INFORMATION EVENT BEFORE PUBLIC PARTICIPATION

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At the end of 2024, the Mitte district office of Berlin will carry out public participation in accordance with Section 3 (2) BauGB for development plan III-233-1 ‘Quartier Am Humboldthain’.

The Mitte district office is taking this as an opportunity to provide additional information on the current planning status at a public information event. District councillor Ephraim Gothe, the planning office BSM and representatives of the urban development office will comment on the status of the development plan procedure. The event will be moderated by the Office for Citizen Participation (Büro für Bürger*innenbeteiligung).

The information event will take place on 16 October 2024 from 6 to 8 pm in the Wiesenburg dance hall (Wiesenstraße 55, 13357 Berlin). We cordially invite you and look forward to your participation and your questions about the project.

QAH receives platinum pre-certification from the German Sustainable Building Council.

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Quartier am Humboldthain, the largest commercial development in Berlin’s city center, has achieved the highest recognition level within the DGNB German Sustainable Building Council framework by attaining its platinum pre-certification. This accomplishment results from collaborative efforts involving the urban community, political leaders, and the administration. It emphasizes the project’s significance as the most central of 11 designated Zukunftsorte Berlin featured in the government’s coalition agreement.

We express our gratitude for this accolade, which recognizes our commitment to social, environmental, and economic sustainability principles.

Special thanks go to our partners, Cobe and Buro Happold, for their shared vision and dedication.

20TH MARCH 2023 – PLANNING CONSULTATION

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From 1st to 31st March 2023 the district council for Berlin, Mitte will be carrying out an early public consultation for development plan III-233-1. With the participation of Mitte district council, we will take the opportunity to host a consultation event to provide the public with additional information on the current planning status. Architectural studio Cobe A/S from Copenhagen will present the development concept for Quartier Am Humboldthain, before city planners BSM mbH then reveal the first draft of the development plan.

The consultation will take place at Amplifier on 20th March 2023 between 6 p.m. and 8 p.m. (Gustav-Meyer-Allee 25, 13355 Berlin). We look forward to welcoming you and answering any questions you might have about the project.

 

Further information, including the agenda for the evening, can be downloaded below.

Next milestone for Quartier Am Humboldthain

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On 20th December 2022, the district council of Berlin-Mitte took the decision to draw up the QAH development plan which was then published in the district’s official gazette on 6th January 2023. The district assembly approved the decision on 19th January 23.

“We are very happy that the development planning process for our project will now proceed. This achievement has essentially been made possible by everyone’s cooperation. I would particularly like to emphasize the very good collaboration with the politicians and the administration and thank the Berlin-Mitte district for its constructive attitude,” explains Lutz Keßels, Managing Director of Quartier Am Humboldthain GmbH.

The QAH IN THE URBAN DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE OF THE BVV MITTE

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The “Committee for Urban Development and Facility Management” of the District Assembly Mitte of Berlin (in short: BVV Mitte) deals with concrete topics and projects of urban and open space development of the district in its monthly meetings.

On 21.09.2022, we had the opportunity to present the Am Humboldthain neighborhood in more detail to the committee members from the individual parliamentary groups.

The focus was on the location with its commercial character and history as well as the innovative procedure of open project development. Ms. Karoline Liedtke-Sørensen from the architecture and planning office Cobe (Copenhagen) presented the design concept for the quarter that emerged as the winner of the urban planning competition. It became clear what high urban planning and landscape planning requirements underlie the design, which find their expression in the flexible building structures around the central neighborhood park.

The QAH is at the Expo Real!

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Visit us at the EXPO REAL from October 4 to 6 in Munich.

 

At our booth in the exhibition area Berlin-Brandenburg we will present the winning design of the urban planning competition by the architectural office “Cobe” and will be happy to give you a personal guided tour through the “open project development” around the Quartier Am Humboldthain.

 

Our booth number is B2.324 in the exhibition area of the Berlin-Brandenburg booth B2.420.

Pricewinning designs for the Quartier am Humboldthain

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The winner of the two-stage urban planning competition for the new Berlin Quartier Am Humboldthain (QAH) has been announced, with the jury awarding first place on 12th August to a design by Danish architecture studio “Cobe”.

 

Second place went to a joint design from “Ortner & Ortner Baukunst” and “capattistaubach urbane landschaften”, with third place going to a design by “Robertneun TM GmbH” and “Atelier Loidl Landschaftsarchitekten GmbH”.

During the first stage of the competition from mid-March, 20 renowned architectural firms submitted designs to reimagine the 6.5 hectare site on Humboldthain, tasked with finding innovative urban planning solutions for the former AEG production site. Designs from eight winning offices were then developed further during the second round of the competition.”

 

From green neighbourhood park to hub

The winning design is centered around a strong landscape planning concept to create a development with rows of predominantly five- to eight-storey buildings culminating in height around a green, central park within the Quartier. This will serve as both a recreational space and the area’s “green lung”. Gustav-Meyer-Allee will be lined with predominantly lower buildings but gaining in height to mark the entrance to the Quartier, and the development’s height profile is derived from existing surrounding buildings. A central forecourt with a single tall, slender building will link the green space in the Quartier with nearby Humboldthain.

The development envisages solar-panelled roofs, as well as many green roofs including both communal and sports areas. A central reservoir with year-round water and open run-off areas are part of a sophisticated rainwater concept.

Previously closed, this neighbourhood is set to become a modern, climate-friendly urban development open to everyone, and as such will become the symbol of a city of short distances. The winning design aims to extend the existing network of paths by two east-west axes, connecting with existing buildings in the south and east beyond the competition area. The planned entrance towards Brunnenstraße will provide the neighbourhood with an extensive east-west connection and in the future the public with barrier-free access.

 

A variety of uses, new opportunities for research and production

The QAH is to become one of Berlin’s “Zukunftsorte”, or sites of future innovation, developed in an urban planning and architectural context for the city as a whole. As the largest inner-city development of its kind in Berlin, the QAH, surrounded by historic AEG buildings, offers great potential to rethink a commercial district’s wide variety of uses within a flexible structure.

The QAH will house the TU Berlin’s Wedding Campus as well as the Fraunhofer IZM, allowing an expansion of the Technology Park Humboldthain (TPH). Space will also be offered to small and medium-sized manufacturing businesses following its proposed objective to create with its urban design both a multipurpose and lively commercial quarter and, at the same time, attractive public spaces.

The “Cobe” design shows how the Quartier could be divided into four different clusters each with its own purpose – for example, an “urban city cluster” along Gustav-Meyer-Allee, a park within the Quartier as a “green oasis” linked to an “education cluster” in the east, as well as a central “creative cluster” and a “technology cluster” to the west opposite the Fraunhofer Institute. How exactly these different clusters will be arranged in the end will be developed as work on the master plan develops.

The design includes just under 235,000 m2 gross floor area in total, of which approximately 31,000 m2 will be on ground level. With a site coverage factor of 0.49, the design will cover just less than half the site. The winning design will now form the basis for development plans aimed to be finalised by 2025/26, with the Quartier in its essential urban outline expected to be completed by 2030.