Re-wetting Großbeeren
Option Studio (Fall 2024)
FLUSH:
Waste & Intimacy in Berlin’s Civic Realm
Teammate
Elias Bennett︎︎︎
Professors
Chris Reed
Co-Director of Master of Landscape Architecture in Urban Design Program; Professor in Practice of Landscape Architecture,
Harvard University Graduate School of Design
Founding Director, STOSS
Laila Seewang, DSc
Visiting Assistant Professor in Urban Planning and Design, Harvard University Graduate School of Design
Board of Directors, Aggregate Architectural History Collaborative
Features
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FLUSH:
Waste & Intimacy in Berlin’s Civic Realm
Teammate
Elias Bennett︎︎︎
Professors
Chris Reed
Co-Director of Master of Landscape Architecture in Urban Design Program; Professor in Practice of Landscape Architecture,
Harvard University Graduate School of Design
Founding Director, STOSS
Laila Seewang, DSc
Visiting Assistant Professor in Urban Planning and Design, Harvard University Graduate School of Design
Board of Directors, Aggregate Architectural History Collaborative
Features
GSD Instagram︎︎︎
GSD LinkedIn︎︎︎
Project Overview
As Brandenburg, Germany, and the EU look towards new methods for countering the forces of climate change, restoring peatlands have come to the forefront to both sequester carbon and maintain productive land uses. We propose that the old sewage field at Großbeeren, once one of the final stopping points for Berlin’s sewage, be transformed into a new typology of productivity – a human-induced peat bog. 'Re-wetting Großbeeren' builds on existing re-wetting techniques, proposing a series of infrastructural components that aim to induce conditions for long-term peat formation while simultaneously provisioning new ways for people to inhabit this waterlogged landscape and learn about the process of re-wetting. Both territorial machine and regional park, the project intersects mandated ecological restoration with the need to foster new intimacies between people and peat lands, which will be vital if either is to persist.
As Brandenburg, Germany, and the EU look towards new methods for countering the forces of climate change, restoring peatlands have come to the forefront to both sequester carbon and maintain productive land uses. We propose that the old sewage field at Großbeeren, once one of the final stopping points for Berlin’s sewage, be transformed into a new typology of productivity – a human-induced peat bog. 'Re-wetting Großbeeren' builds on existing re-wetting techniques, proposing a series of infrastructural components that aim to induce conditions for long-term peat formation while simultaneously provisioning new ways for people to inhabit this waterlogged landscape and learn about the process of re-wetting. Both territorial machine and regional park, the project intersects mandated ecological restoration with the need to foster new intimacies between people and peat lands, which will be vital if either is to persist.
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