Design of a public building in Friedrichshain Berlin: The digital common

‘An autonomous local community resisting the globalizing oppression of neoliberalism’

Master thesis (2023)

Authors

G.J.J. Jacobs Architecture and the Built Environment

Contributors

P.A.M. Kuitenbrouwer Public Building and Housing Design (supervisor 1)
S. Corbo Public Building and Housing Design (supervisor 1)
Faculty
Architecture and the Built Environment
Copyright: © 2023 Gijs Jacobs
Network Neoliberalism Commons Democratic architecture
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Published Date

04-07-2023

Language

English

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Faculty

Architecture and the Built Environment

Abstract

Berlin’s history of oppression gives it an interesting role in the development in European thought. In this project, that history is recontextualised through the story of electronic dance music (EDM) and used as a basis for an alternative approach to both old & new potential models of society.
The project attempts to create the infrastructure for an autonomous local community in Friedrichshain, resisting the globalising oppression of neoliberalism. The ‘vacant space’- plot located near the famous club ‘Berghain’ is a typology that can be found across Berlin which suggests a different approach to society that is analysed and used for an architectural proposal. Inspired by the non-hierarchical infrastructure of the network, this project proposes a series of indeterminate modular skeletons that can be appropriated by the local commune. The project is managed by a democratic digital portal using a ‘shared ownership model’, which also provides ‘open source’ libraries for a series of different products ranging from modular building components to digital code, music, books, artworks, etc.