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NeoBlock: Reimagining the Megablock / Lizzette López
Lizzette López
Berlin
2019
@lizz_lm
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How to successfully design and create a recognizable identity for a high-density mixed used neighborhood in a site with a heavily historic background?

BACKGROUND

The site of study is located in Marzahn-Hellersdorf, Berlin. When the DDR was formed, the village of Marzahn became part of East Berlin. In that time massive plattenbau, a set of identical utilitarian blocks, were produced  to house large amounts of families in building structures created to be cheap, standardized and fast built.

NEOBLOCK

NeoBlock is based on the concept of community and identity, as well as the sense of unity where different society sectors share one building, creating in these way areas with a strong and recognizable identity, having as an inspiration the industrial heritage of the site as well as the historic prefabricated buildings. The use of megablocks,, was based on the premise of modernizing and reinventing the concept of large social housing, as well as the negative connotation referring to the typologies of large panel system-building.

IDENTITY

The structure of the megablocks manage to create on one side a sense of unity and inclusivity due to the mixing of different social sectors and the unification of a whole community. But on the other side, the lack of differentiation and identity between apartments and buildings its one of the biggest conflict when discussing large scale habitation units. Therefore the need to provide a strong sense of identity into every building.

CONCLUSION

NeoBlock manages not only to reinforce community and create a recognizable identity, but at the same time develop a district inspired by heritage, where the unity through past and present is undeniable. The project develops a communicative relationship between historical times, the urban and private, and the inhabitant and the structure, the NeoBlock.

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