Adam Mitchell

Project Description

Situated within one of the remaining vestiges of Berlin’s industrial rail network, the Inhabited Embankment nestles programmes into pockets of undesirable space. Park am Gleisdreieck, a former shunting yard that remained abandoned since the turn of the Cold War, resisted residential development in favour of urban rewilding, preserving a distended outline of the longstanding infrastructural form. The chosen site, positioned within a convergent position littered with an overlapping series of intertwined rail services, provides the opportunity for the creation of a new infrastructure that will morph the existing landscape 100 years into the future, reforming the concept of urban living by intertwining the human and ecological domain through the language of passage, providing safe crossings for both human and nature.