Berlin Void

In the centre of Berlin after the reunification in 1989, the abundance of land was an unthinkable rarity in a city of three million people. The voids of the city were a fertile ground for Berliner’s spontaneous activities and played a fundamental role in defining Berlin as the European capital of culture.
The voids have been the neck of Berlin, where nightclubs, art installations, concerts… grown as spontaneous events. Troughout the years however, the voids have been filled with new developments and nowdays the empty areas of the city are disappearing.

The void can be argued being a symbol of freedom, of democracy and of opportunity: a space that can be used for everything or for nothing,. The lack of program leave the freedom for innovations.

The project designed is about keeping the site out of the network of the capital. A monumntal void as a response to the urban growth: a limitation to it and indeeed part of it. The projected void becomes a virtual space in which the individual personal space merges with the sourrandings. A white island in the district of Kreuzberg, where the city is excluded and the sky is the privilege.
The hole architecture is expressed by simple gestures. The void of sense of space is yet full of definitions to be made, as if the void of the city is yet to be defined, entitled Berlin Void.