Cooperative planning of an urban court yard in Potsdam

Project with the purpose of redesigning a 5000 qm court yard with mobilization and participation of 450 residents in a panel flat quarter in Potsdam Drewitz, Germany.

Objectives of the project

• high quality concept for the design and mangement of the court which is held and conducted by four different residential building cooperatives
• creating a more nice and caring place for a family-friendly atmosphere
• more green, more plants growing in surround and on the faces of the buildings
• stabilisating cooperation and contentment within the neighbourship
• clear patterns of utilisation to avoid conflicts
• enhancing social control
• making the court “private”
• no more cars in the court

Main contractor and planning agency

Pia von Zadow, Büro für Landschaftsarchitektur

Purchaser

• `Entwicklungsträger Stadtkontor´, Potsdam

Participants

• approx. 450 residents
• City of Potsdam
• Nonprofit residential building cooperative Potsdam (GEWOBA)
• Residential building cooperative Karl Marx
• Residential building cooperative e.G. (pbg)
• Residential building cooperative 1956 (PWG)

Funding

State-aided program `social city´and resources of the residential building cooperatives

Period of the project

2002 – 2005

Publications and documents, in German:

→ Download Invitation Community Planning Weekend

→ Download press article: Mehr Licht – mehr Grün

→ Press article (German) `Offene Karten´; MAZ Potsdam, 18 February 2002

→ Press article (German) `Wirbelwind über dem Sandkasten´; MAZ Potsdam, 04 March 2002

→ Download concept draft

→ Download concept draft