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Project • By TAELON7 • Factories
Fair Trade Zone
The design of the Fair Trade Zone understands circular economy as a spatial metabolism between architecture and landscape. Led by a women’s cooperative, the Fair Trade Zone in Akuse, Ghana, is based on an alternative model for integrated sustainable manufacturing, agriculture, and eco-tourism in Ghana. While the raw materials processed in the built interior grow outdoors in productive gardens, the buildings harvest rainwater and nourish the plants with ecologically purified production wastewater through the courtyard’s drainage channels and gravity-fed furrow irrigation. The result is a striated landscape composed of different biomes suitable for the diverging ecological requirements of a dye garden, a paper garden, a textile ga... More
Project • By Office ParkScheerbarth • Offices
Haus 2+
Haus 2+ is a modern and sustainable timber infill that redefines the entrance to Holzmarkt 25, a cooperative-led urban cultural quarter on the banks of the river Spree in Berlin’s Friedrichshain district. Designed by Office ParkScheerbarth, a Berlin-based practice for architecture and urban planning, Haus 2+ is the first all-timber building in Holzmarkt 25.
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Holzmarkt 25
Once a timber market, the Holzmarkt area later became a border zone for East Germany, and, after German reunification, a vacant brownfield site. From 2003, it was home to Bar25, the renowned open-air techno club. Following Bar25's closure in 2010, its founders and regulars formed cooperatives to preserve the area from commercial development. Thro... More