The pattern repeat platte berlin was created during an advanced textile design course themed “Berlin as a pattern repeat” in summer term 2010 during my foundation year at the KHB. The three-week course was coached by the textile designer Jenny Pilz.
Architecture is the stage of urban living. It expresses the character and face of a city or a district. Residential areas with buildings made of precast concrete slabs appear to be abstract, dull and soul-less. Mostly due to their uniform look.
My concept ist the attempt to soften the astringence of the monotone and geometric grid cladding of builidings made with precast concrete slabs and show the humanity behind them. A seemingly endless handwritten line forms different facade grids of various types of builidings made of precast concrete slabs that are typical in East-Berlin.
I myself grew up in a high density housing area with buildings of the type Q3A in Berlin Treptow, therefore I connect childhood memories with this architecture style.
