Spandau Watertown
ProMinent   May 07.2016

Introduction

Historically, these two Havel and Spree River in shaping urban culture and public space plays an important role. But as the 19th century industrial and economic development, the Berlin water system gradually lost its cultural connotations, reduced to water transport and sewage channel.Since German reunification in 1989, Berlin's local government put the revival of urban waterfront as one of the main topics of urban development. After nearly 15 years of sustained efforts, the city's two main rivers (Havel and Spree River) along the 336 hectares of industrial, warehousing and military sites have been successfully returned to the embrace of the city, the city has become attractive Waterfront settlements.Watertown Spandau in the  west of Lake Spandau area, had a huge pollution due to industrial production and fuel stockpiles, resulting in the serious consequence that entire waterfront environment was completely destroyed.- The Waterfront redevelopment for the new urban space;- Construction of new residential area in distinctive waterfront.
Flour Mill area, Havel Corner (Haveleck) Area, Brewery Area , Havel Peninsula Area, North Port Area.Shure Sea Division (Schultheiss) is a famous local beer brands. Since 1876 the island in the idyllic western shore of Lake built the first plant since the company has grown in strength, in 1920,it has grown to European even the world's largest brewery.The development of the brewery made overall planning and positioning, delineating the plant construction and new buildings that need to be protected, in order to build a new future Spandau lakeside community by the way of making a co-existence of the new and the old.Boiler House before and after transformation:StrategyMixing functions, including housing, social services, office, commercial and cultural facilities as well as dining facilities;The new buildings are made of red bricks, generating dialogues between the old factory and strengthen the whole sense of identity for the site;Use a special way to organize traffic system, which serves for pedestrians and bicycles strolling along the waterfront.

 



Lat: 52.5075
Lng: 13.4251
Type:
Region: Europe
Scale: City
Field: Compositive
City: Berlin