Green Berlin

A city in transition : this is its current state, not its final form.

What exists now is the beginning of the transformation.

Green Berlin began as Einblick, Ausblick, Durchblick: a dense city built inside a discarded skylight from cardboard, found wood, packaging, wire, cigarette filters, plants, light, and materials collected from Berlin’s streets.

The current version shows an urban landscape caught between density and possibility. Small homes, illuminated windows, a treehouse, cultural signs, and fragments of nature already inhabit the scene. Kotti and STOP WARS appear again in miniature, connecting this window to the wider story of ALLESANDERSSTADT.

The work is not finished. Vegetation will spread much more strongly through the architecture until the green is no longer decoration but an active force reshaping the city.

A100 · Next transformation

What if the space claimed by a motorway became space for collective life?

The next phase will connect Green Berlin directly to the construction and expansion of the A100. The motorway represents a conflict over what a city prioritises: traffic infrastructure or neighbourhoods, cultural spaces, ecological systems, and places where people can meet.

Inside this window, that conflict will be turned into a speculative alternative. Grey transport space can become a garden, green bridge, cultural route, playground, market, or open stage. The intervention does not present this future as finished: it asks viewers to imagine what Berlin could grow instead.

Earlier state

Before the city becomes greener.

Earlier open view of Berlin Die Rote Insel before the next phase of greening — An earlier open view of the work · formerly presented as Berlin, die Rote Insel

Making process · 10 images

A city assembled, inhabited, and gradually reclaimed by nature.

The archive follows the work from cardboard architecture and its first arrangement to electricity, vegetation, cultural details, and the current unfinished city.

Building the city

Discarded cardboard becomes a growing collection of individual houses. Their uneven surfaces and improvised shapes remain visible as part of the city’s identity.

Cardboard houses being built for Green Berlin — Constructing the first houses from cardboard

Cardboard houses being plastered — The façades receive their rough surfaces

Finding the skyline

The buildings are repeatedly sorted and tested behind the skylight glass. More houses are added while a temporary background begins to establish the depth and atmosphere of the scene.

Miniature houses arranged behind the skylight glass — Testing the houses behind the glass

More miniature houses placed against a temporary background — The city expands across a provisional background

Light arrives, nature follows

Electricity activates the miniature homes. The first trees enter the composition, beginning a process that will eventually allow vegetation to overtake much more of the constructed city.

Electrical lighting being installed in the Green Berlin miniature — Installing electricity inside the city

The first trees being added to Green Berlin — The first trees enter the architecture

Illuminated treehouse growing from the miniature city — A treehouse creates another way of inhabiting Berlin

One story appears inside another

Small references connect Green Berlin to the other ALLESANDERSSTADT windows. Kotti, STOP WARS, and the banner “Drop acid, not bombs” turn the city into an archive of cultural resistance, transformation, and shared imagination.

Miniature reference to Kotti inside Green Berlin — Kotti appears again in miniature

Miniature STOP WARS building inside Green Berlin — STOP WARS becomes part of the skyline