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2022/11/04 · Berlin, Good Stuff, Partnership

JOIN OUR CO-WORKING SPACE

Are you currently searching for a beautiful yet functional co-working space in vibrant Mitte/Kreuzberg?

We’re renting out 1-6 tables in our spacious and lush office in Charlottenstraße 2, located in Graphisches Zentrum near Checkpoint Charlie. The idea is to start a creative cluster of the best creatives, planners, thinkers and designers – in the urbanism and sustainability space, but also in general!

The desks are available from now on, but the rent from a later date is possible as well. We are offering large tables, enough space to respect social distancing, and a friendly environment with driven and kind people.

Location

Charlottenstrasse 2, 10969 Kreuzberg
Easy access — just 2 min away from U-Bahn Kochstraße station
wide range of restaurants and coffee shops around, reachable in couple of minutes (Charlotte 2, Chupenga, betahaus and many more)
Besselpark is just a few steps away

Space

±400 m² total space and 100 m² shared space
Fully set up work space that includes a large desk (approx. 10 sqm of workspace per person) comfortable chair and other gadgets
shelf space, in case you might need to store things
very bright, spacious room. Also, a lot of space for you plans or posters to be pinned up at the wall
large, dedicated areas for sketching
extensive library of architecture and urban planning books
big kitchen with espresso machine, fridge, microwave and hotplate. Also perfect for a chat or meetings
no carpets
many plants!

Infrastructure & service

unrestricted 24/7 access to the space
free internet (super fast speed with glass fibre)
weekly cleaning service
theft insurance, includes all electronics, laptops etc.
beautiful and simple design tables, with famous Eiermann frames
space to park your bike or car
ground floor and easy access

Price

The monthly rent per desk is 300 EUR — internet, table, chair, shelf space, keys, cleaning service, storage space and kitchen included in the price

People
You’ll share the space with a bunch of young urban planners / architects / engineers from all over the world and our co-worker office LABELS (Cee Cee Creative)

Come visit us at Charlottenstr. 2 | 10969 Berlin and take a look yourself, or ask reach out with the questions to our colleague Bella reachable via:

📧 office@tspa.eu

☎️ +49 30 57 70 63 492

2022/10/17 · Africa, Berlin, Good Stuff, Partnership

Community needs oriented, solar energy powered hubs in rural Rwanda

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Earlier this year TSPA started an exciting partnership with The Pulse and Solarkiosks Solutions.

These two Berlin Based companies, together with many other experts, are working towards an inspiring goal to to implement and operate a network of solar-powered rural centers in Rwanda. Each of the E-HUBB will combine fully integrated solar energy systems, retail and whole shops, stores and offices, tailored to the specific needs of local entrepreneurs or NGOs and many more. TSPA joined this network of experts as a technical advisor for the spatial and architectural concept development as well as integration with the surrounding urban settlements.

The very first pilot test — The Pulse center is soon to be operating in the first location in Rwanda. Follow us to learn more.

Thomas Stellmach visiting professor at BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg

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We are happy to announce that TSPA’s founder and director, Thomas Stellmach, is starting a new position as Visiting Professor at Brandenburgische Technische Universität Cottbus-Senftenberg.

Together with Julia Binder, Thomas will take part of the Urban Design and Urban Studies chair in the Faculty of Architecture, Civil Engineering and Urban Planning.

2021/07/15 · Competition, Inspiration, Partnership, Russia

TSPA one of five teams selected to compete and design the architectural and urban development concept for the new Ecopolis in Sakhalin, Russia

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TSPA was selected as part of the 5 international teams that will design an architectural and urban development concept in the Open International Competition for the new Ecopolis in Sakhalin, Russia.

Together with Wowhaus, Nomura Research Institute, and the Scientific Research Institute of Ecology and Sustainable Management of Natural Resources, TSPA will develop a concept for a new city model that will bring a “qualitative transformation of the regional economy, its modernization, and diversification, the development of green energy, as well as the creation of a technology incubator and new industries».

2020/10/06 · Introspection, Partnership

Three work places available at Aquabutze coworking space

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We’re renting out three table spaces in our beautiful shared office at Moritzplatz at Aquacarree above Ritter Butzke.

They are available immediately but also a later date is possible.

Price per desk per month 248,- EURO (USt/VAT included)

Wide tables and enough space to respect social distancing

What you get:

2020/02/13 · Europe, Partnership, Project, Workshop

Toilet provision in Düsseldorf: district needs in a city wide strategy.

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Public toilets in a city are relevant since they tackle a basic need. Everyone in a city, visitors, inhabitants, young and old will eventually have to use a restroom.

Currently, TSPA works together with Zebralog in the provision of a city-wide strategy for the provision of toilets in the city of Düsseldorf. This ongoing project has given us insight into the real impact of public toilets on the city and its residents and has taught us a range of new skills and methods for dealing with a large amount of unstructured data from various stakeholders.

To explain this in detail, our colleague Jan Cyganski shared some insights and learning outcomes in an interview.

The current stage of the project

So far, we finished the analysis of the existing toilets. We did a lot of GIS analysis using data from the city, such as toilet facilities and site visits. At this phase, the participation was already essential.

Data collection process

In the data collection, it was TSPA, different departments of the city -like the social department, the gardening department, the urban planning department, traffic department- and the district’s representatives who gave their input on missing locations.

We all delivered the inputs that our partners Zebralog managed, processed, and organised and we prepared the output.

2019/12/09 · Berlin, Europe, Partnership, Project, Workshop

Rapid planning workshop for Blankenburger Süden

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Last week our team joined Bureau B+B in Amsterdam for an intensive design workshop.
Together, we developed the concept of our design proposal for Blankenburger Süden, a 120 hectares urban development on the north edge of Berlin.
The results of our collaboration provided ideas and images to develop a new structural and utilisation concept for the largest urban expansion site in the city.

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2019/11/07 · Affordable Housing, Berlin, Competition, Europe, Partnership, Project, Uncategorized, Workshop

Berlin’s largest extension site: TSPA & B+B selected for Blankenburger Süden process

TSPA together with B+B has been selected as one of the teams that will form part of the cooperative workshop process in the development of Blankenburger Süden, Berlin largest urban expansion site. Starting in autumn 2019 and continuing until spring 2020, four teams will develop as many different test designs as possible for the planned new city district. The resulting ideas and images will be used to develop a new structural and utilisation concept (so-called «Alternative D») for the south of Blankenburg.

Our team is happy to be part of a cooperative workshop process in which teams create the test designs simultaneously. The workshop process is the third building block of the so-called laboratory phase. The first two building blocks of the laboratory phase are «Sharpening key objectives» and «Clarifying framework settings».

The area to which the sketches will be tested is of around 150 hectares. It extends from the former location of the Fachhochschule für Technik und Wirtschaft (FHTW) in the north to the approx. 90 ha core area — formerly a Rieselfeld, today arable land — to the Heinersdorf industrial estate in the south. In addition, the test designs will focus on the connection to the neighbouring neighbourhoods.

Some of the topics we will be discussing critically and creatively are: uses and functions, urban planning, open spaces and ecology, mobility and transport, and interdependencies with the neighbourhoods.

We are very happy to exchange ideas in this workshop with our salted collegues:

YelowZ
bgmr Landschaftsarchitekten
UmbauStadt
MLA+
Fugmann Janotta und Partner
CITYFOERSTER
Felixx Landscape

Context

The south of Blankenburger Süden development is a response to the housing shortage in the state of Berlin located in what is still considered «a phantom» of green grounds and one of Pankow’s most rural regions. The 90 hectare core area projects to accommodate 5,000 to 6,000 apartments.

«Four teams of planners with a focus on urban development and landscape architecture will take part in the cooperative, urban planning workshop procedure. These four teams were selected via an EU-wide award procedure» explains Katrin Dietl, spokeswoman for the Senate Department for Urban Development (Schubert, 2019;Berliner Morgenpost).

In response to the housing shortage in the state of Berlin, the last legislative period prompted the search for suitable locations for housing construction throughout the entire Berlin city area. In spring 2016, the choice fell not only on ten further locations but also on the state-owned properties in the south of Blankenburg.

When the test drafts are available in spring 2020 — they should be as varied as possible and deliver concrete ideas and pictures — a draft can be derived from them which the Berlin House of Representatives will finally vote on.

Senatsverwaltung für Stadtentwicklung und Wohnen, «Kooperatives städtebauliches Werkstattverfahren» (2019)

Senatsverwaltung für Stadtentwicklung und Wohne, «Blankenburger Süden Aktuelle Entwicklung» (2019)

Schubert, Thomas. «Ein „Klimawald“ für den Blankenburger Süden» ( 23.08.2019)

https://www.stadtentwicklung.berlin.de/wohnen/wohnungsbau/blankenburger-sueden/de/werkstattverfahren.shtml

2019/11/06 · Europe, Partnership, Project, Workshop

Chemnitz Project Group Meeting

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This 4th and 5th of November TSPA presented the current state of the city vision developing in the city of Chemnitz as part to Chemnitz-Strategie 2040 through workshops and meetings with the current project group and the city administration.

2019/09/30 · Introspection, Partnership, Russia

TSPA to host chancellor fellowship

TSPA today welcomed Alexandra Katasanova in Bonn at the reception of 2019’s grant winners of the German Chancellor Fellowship for tomorrow’s leaders.

The Alexander von Humboldt Foundation annually awards ten candidates each from Brazil, China, India, Russia, and the USA to spend an research a year in Germany. TSPA will be one of the host organisation in 2019, and we look forward to work with Alexandra on building a platform for enabling cooperation in urban development in the coming year!

2018/06/27 · Affordable Housing, Berlin, Conference, Festival, Inspiration, Partnership, Press

TSPA is a funding partner of the MakeCity.Berlin

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MakeCity.Berlin — is an international festival for architecture and urbanism. It is a platform to initiate changes for a better urban development in Berlin. This year, along the list of many other interesting practices and institutions from Berlin, TSPA became a funding partner of MakeCity.Berlin. It was a great opportunity to become more involved in the urban planning scene in the German capital and connect with experts, who are equally passionate about new discourses and opportunities of the city.

Additionally to the sponsoring role, out team had a unique chance to develop and propose a new project Impuls.berlin. Together with a great team of external experts, TSPA helped to develop an idea for a new knowledge and expertise sharing platform. Impulse.berlin aims to create an ecosystem where urban actors have the time and space to think and create a good city». To find out more information about the project, click here.

You can read more about our contribution here

Stadt machen! Impulse.berlin

2017/12/20 · Affordable Housing, Berlin, Competition, Europe, Introspection, Partnership, Project

TSPA co-founds housing cooperative urbancoopberlin. Winning competition for the Schöneberger Linse in Berlin

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Affordable housing, sustainable financing models, land leasehold models, intergenerational living, green architecture: these topics have in common that we promote them as planners and architects. They also have in common that they are more easily said than done. To see what can actually be done, TSPA founded the housing cooperative urbancoopberlin, together with SammlerUsinger, LIST GmbH, Hervé De Giovannini, SUSTAINABLE SERVICES. As our first test case, we participated in the competition of the city of Berlin for the ‘Schöneberger Linse’ organised by Senate of Berlin. The competition asked a sustainability and renting concept besides the architectural proposal. The urbancoop proposal won the first prize, being awarded the plot and development opportunity. Have a look at the project here and learn more about the residents’ engagement process in this video.

2017/12/12 · , , Africa, Partnership, Project, Publication

Nampula City Development Strategy Framework

Nampula is Mozambique’s second largest urban centre and considered the ‘capital’ of northern region. It is also one of the economically most dynamic cities of the country due to its location in the centre of Nampula Province – the most populous and prosperous of Mozambique – in the heartland of highly productive agricultural areas, at the cross roads between the East-West Nacala Development Corridor linking land-locked Malawi and Zambia to the port of Nacala, and the North-South corridor linking Tanzania with the rest of Mozambique. Due to these facts Nampula has been growing rapidly from 53,970 inhabitants in 1970, to 158,099 in 1980 and 306,074 in 1997; it is now estimated that the population of the is around 600,000 inhabitants, showing an annual growth of over 5%, which puts a tremendous pressure on urban land, infrastructure and municipal services. At the same time the surrounding District of Nampula is the fastest growing in Nampula Province. This explosive urban growth has been and continues to be mainly unplanned, so that more than 80% of the population live in high density squatter settlements with appalling housing, environmental and living conditions and generally deprived of the most basic infrastructure and services, and is potentially preventing successful investment projects if no proper territorial planning strategy is thought through.

Since 2008 the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat) has been supporting the municipality and district of Nampula, together the Faculty of Architecture and Physical Planning (FAPF) at the Eduardo Mondlane University (UEM) and with the financial support of Cities Alliance, in preparing a city-wide slum upgrading plan (CWSUP) and a city development strategy (CDS) which covers the surrounding Nampula District to cater for the urban growth in the medium to long term, hence preventing the formation of new slums in the peri-urban areas and providing more favourable conditions for investment.

2017/07/25 · Partnership, Project, Ukraine

Kiev Urban Actions

British Council Ukraine and the Goethe-Institut, in partnership with CANactions, launched a programme to identify, support and implement innovative urban development projects that seek to reinvigorate post-industrial, mid-sized cities across the Ukraine through the cultural and creative industries. The programme recognises the importance of supporting communities which are working together to address common urban issues.
TSPA, as German partner, supported one of the two winners during the implementation of their proposal in Konstyantinivka (Ukraine).
During the week from April 3 to 9 TSPA led the team through some of the most known Berlin participatory practices and discussed possible scenarios of the intervention.

Take a look at the programme and the visit outcome!

2016/12/21 · Affordable Housing, Berlin, Partnership, urbancoopberlin

Urban Coop Berlin: Second Round for Cooperative Housing Project «Schöneberger Linse»

Urban coop berlin has been invited to the second round of the comprehensive concept selection process for the «Schöneberger Linse» in Berlin. The criteria for the final selection will be in particular innovative programme and architectural solutions, besides the usual commercial factors.

As part of urban coop berlin, TSPA will start developing the concept together with leading de Giovannini architects on the base of the preference assessment of our members of the cooperative.

The “Schöneberger Linse” neighbourhood is envisioned as a model project in the South of Berlin. The 1,180 m² site will provide 900 apartments next to Berlin’s second largest train station Südkreuz. For the first time, the seat of Berlin plans to involve a mix of stakeholders as developers collaborating on a single site: building initiatives, cooperatives, investment groups and municipal housing agencies, to «ensure a stable neighbourhood development with a sustainable social and programmatic mix».

2016/09/23 · Africa, Conference, Lecture, Partnership

TSPA на конгрессе ISOCARP в Дурбане

“Cities we Have vs. Cities we Need” was the theme of the 52^ndISOCARP congress, held in Durban, South Africa. TSPA was part of a keynote panel on the implementation of The New Urban Agenda. Benjamin Scheerbarth reflected on the ways private planning offices might be able to implement sustainable strategies in cities. As possible ways forward he offered (1) to understand a plan not as a final product but as a starting point for dialogue, (2) to design with inbuilt flexibility for future change, (3) to cultivate a dual approach of holistic understanding and acupunctural interventions and to (4) find new ways of organising both spatially and organisationally.

TSPA also presented its paper on UN-Habitat’s Rapid Planning Studio (download paper), a capacity-building workshop, which Thomas and UN-Habitat colleagues conceived as a response to rapid urban growth across the continent.

2016/02/22 · Official Mission, Partnership, Workshop

Rapid Planning Studio in Nampula

From 15th to 18th of February 2016, a UN-Habitat team led another Rapid Planning Studio — this time in Nampula Mozambique. The workshop allowed local planners and leaders to discuss potential development strategies for their rapidly growing city with the UN-Habitat experts.

Nampula — a city with an estimated population of over 600’000 inhabitants — is the capital of Mozambique’s most populous province with more than 4 million inhabitants. The city’s massive in-migration and consequent housing shortage challenges current capacities to manage land effectively.

Addressing the challenges from three standpoints — legislation, finance/economy, and urban planning/design — allowed to deliver informed and feasible outcomes. Thanks to an energetic and collaborative atmosphere among the participants, the workshop successfully promoted more sustainable urban development strategies for Nampula.

2016/02/08 · Official Mission, Partnership, Workshop

Tacloban Urban Lab

Tacloban Urban Lab, jointly prepared by the UN-Habitat Design Lab and the Dutch Creative Industries Fund, took place during the 26th — 29th of January 2016 in the Philippines. It brought together international and local expertise to exchange applied knowledge and create urban design guidelines for the capital of Leyte province. Tacloban — a city of over 200’000 inhabitants — suffered from severe damage after the 2013 Haiyan Typhoon. The Tacloban Urban Lab is thus seen as an opportunity to draft guidelines for more sustainable urban growth and post-disaster reconstruction.

“Designing a better urban future” — Urban Planning and Design Labs were established on the 15th of September 2015 by the Dutch Creative Industries Fund and UN-Habitat’s Global Network of Urban Planning and Design Labs. The Tacloban Lab was part of a one year series to support local governments in partner countries such as Myanmar, Mexico, the Philippines, Palestine and Ghana.

“With the planning labs, we promote to integrate design throughout the planning process, since design explorations can actually also contribute to problem definition and goal-setting. And as clear plans ease political buy-in, design also has the capacity to accelerate governments’ decision-making processes where plans often end up in gridlock.” says Rogier van den Berg, project leader of the Urban Planning and Design LAB at UN-Habitat.

Participating experts:

UN-Habitat: Thomas Stellmach, Chris Rolo, David Guera

UN URBAN LABS: STUDIO MAKS, Mars Architects, krill, Rademacher & De Vries

2015/10/27 · Academia, Partnership, Presentation, Project, Ukraine, Workshop

Kiev Workshop: Art Zavod Platforma & CANactions Results

TSPA’s workshop at Kiev’s CANactions School for Urban Studies in Kiev reimagined a former industrial area as a creative cluster. The motto of the workshop — ‘from research to proposal’ — turned out to be very real: The site’s owner was sufficiently impressed by the results that he committed to continue the cooperation and to jointly develop the student’s ideas further to turn them into reality.

~~Have a look at the workshop results here [pdf, 44MB].~~
Update: the workshop results will be released publicly on 18 December.

Read more about the workshop in the press here [Ukrainian: Пространство для творчества и развития должно быть комфортным] and here [Ukrainian: В Киеве состоялся совместный воркшоп школы CANactions и Арт-завода Платформа].

Many thanks to the Goethe Institute for support and to the CANactions team for organising, and especially to the participants for their great work!

2015/10/15 · External, Partnership

Isocarp National Delegation Germany

Thomas Stellmach has been voted to form the National Delegation of Isocarp Germany together with Martin Birgel, Stefan Netsch, Peter Droege and Peter Zeile.

2015/05/29 · Introspection, Partnership

Four work spaces at our office available

We’re renting out four table spaces in our beautiful shared office at moritzplatz at Aquacarree above Ritter Butzke.

One of them is available immediately , the others from July 2015.

Monthly rent is 168 EURO excluding VAT. Internet, table, chair, shelf space and cleaning is included, there is storage space and a nice little kitchen.

Address:

Aqua Carree/Room 306/Entrance B

Lobeckstrasse 30-35, 10997 Berlin

Tel: 030 325 19 265

Mail: office@morgen.com.de

2015/03/26 · Partnership, Project

TSPA to design 73ha city extension in Russia

TSPA has been selected by Talan to design 73 ha of mixed and dense city in the heart of Naberezhnye Chelny in the western part of Russia. The city is one of the largest planned towns in the world related to vehicle production: the Kamaz plant itself is the largest vehicle factory in the world.

We are looking forward to work on the assignment together with our colleagues at Novaya Zemlya in Moscow, Happold Cities and Topotek1 in Berlin.

2015/02/24 · Partnership

Future City 2015 Initiative

The city isn’t the problem. The city is the solution. [Jamie Lerner]

TSPA is partner of Germany’s science year 2015 initiative with the topic ‘future city‘.

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