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TSPA (Thomas Stellmach Planning and Architecture) is a start-up based in Berlin, Germany. Emerged from Uberbau architecture & urbanism in 2014, we have an extensive portfolio of projects reflecting our experience in strategic planning, urban development and design. Our in-house team is comprised of young, talented urban planners, architects, geographers, GIS experts and urban management experts.

We are urbanists at heart. We thrive on working in different global contexts and scales, with projects ranging from regional development to neighbourhood transformation across Europe, Asia and Africa. Our global experience has informed and tested our expertise, giving us a holistic and complex understanding of what it takes to implement successful projects.

“Creating flexible designs based on rational and collaborative decision-making delivers solutions that withstand the test of time.”

Our work centres on the strategic planning phase. Our planning and design decisions are based on a thorough analysis of the existing conditions and context. This analysis goes beyond the spatial and includes comprehensive economic, social, environmental and regulatory assessment.

We take what we call a structured creativity approach, drawing on our team’s capacity for inspired creativity, and coupling that with empirical analysis and proven best practices. This marriage between rationale and free inspiration means we deliver solutions that are at once innovative and pioneering, yet comprehensively thought out and feasible.

Teamwork, cooperation and capacity-building form the core of our decision and design process. We love to learn from our clientele and to share our experience with them: We keep a channel of dialogue open by holding frequent check-in meetings with clients, which ensures visions and targets are continually being met.

All our projects share a set of key values for holistic sustainable development: coexistence and inclusion, economically sound development and environmentally-friendly design.

With its main office in Berlin, TSPA operates in four world regions: CIS, MENA, Sub-Saharan Africa and Western Europe. Additionally, Thomas Stellmach is a consultant with UN-Habitat in Nairobi and cooperates closely with the urban planning lab of UN-Habitat.

Our public sector clients comprise national and regional planning boards, as well as municipalities in demand of regional and metropolitan strategies, spatial plans and visions as well as city extension and transformation projects. Our private sector clients represent development corporations who require planning services or expert consultation for urban design and analysis for regeneration of former industrial areas, as well as urban infill, brownfield and greenfield projects including feasibility and project impact studies.

TSPA’s mentality is firmly grounded on feasible possibilities and the expertise to do things better. We do hold a particular stance on urban development that stands out from the rest: that good design and cost-effectiveness are not competing, but complementary objectives.

We have witnessed time and again that the initial expenditures our clients invest in sound strategic planning, professional analysis and solution options lend to making informed decisions—decisions that minimise risk and loss of investment and ultimately result in impressive outcomes and cost-savings in the long run.

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Discovery of an Island, Moscow, RU, 2010

Discovery of an Island, Moscow, RU, 2010

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