When it comes to the climate crisis, we already have all the science and the technological solutions we need. What we lack is the willingness and the ability to imagine what it could be like to live with the climate crisis, and in much hotter cities.   The heart of this project was the Berlin […]

belove is a design project that questions the current focus of cities by resonating to e-commerce, the earth’s ecology and liberal capitalism. The project is separated into three dimensions: a global movement, a utopian city, and a local site in Berlin. The global movement is led by professionals using their skills to push Industrial Revolution […]

Looking for new housing under the surface of the city is either the last option in the face of a tight housing market or an exciting new way to use unused urban space. How much sunlight do you need anyway? What do new social communities look like underground? What are the potentials for the housing […]

Berlin has long been expanding underground, especially in its central districts. sFoundations and basements came first, followed by the initial uenetworked infrastructures:h gas (1826), water (1856), sewers (1878), and electricity (1882). The subway system (1902) created a second level of transport below the streets. Subterranean space took on a public dimension; the streets acquired an […]

As the counterpart to the commonly accessible zone comprising all that is above ground, the underground has always been a realm of speculation and imagination. Located literally beyond our grasp and out of sight, it sparks fantasies of penetration and excavation. Since the 1960s, if not before, the prefix underground has been used to describe […]