House of Statistics

During the restructuring of Alexanderplatz through socialist ideals under the GDR, buildings were erected as prefabricated slabs. Construction began on March 8, 1968, with plans by the architectural collective Manfred Hörner, Peter Senf and Joachim Härter.

Since 2008, the House of Statistics has stood empty in the middle of Berlin. It is located close to the Alexanderplatz. 

Allesandersplatz: In 2015, the initiative Haus der Statistik, a group of committed artists, architects, cultural workers and politicians, prevented the sale of the building to investors including the building's planned demolition.

To create the planning law required to refurbish the existing buildings and add new ones, the initative created an integrated urban planning workshop with three planning teams, which took place from September 2018 to February 2019.

Currently, Koop5 is working closely with planners from Teleinternetcafe and Treibhaus on detailed questions related to the building's development. 

The urban design developed by Teleinternetcafé intends to provide a robust basis for a cooperative, community-oriented process of space production in the heart of Berlin.

The first floors of the entire neighborhood are to be used for the common good. They should form the basis of a lively neighborhood. Sumiltaneous to the planning and construction of a new building, existing buildings function as test sites for possible new uses.

In the coming years, a lively mixture of affordable apartments, administratative buildings, and small-scale units for commercial, cultural and social uses, is planned to develop.

“Shaping Berlin together – united, sustainable, cosmopolitan.” This model of development advocates for new cooperations and broad participation of the urban society, with the goal of creating more projects like this all over Germany.

"The fact that by some miracle the mayor, the technocrats, the cultural workers, the social workers, the tenants, were all more or less happy, led to this becoming a kind of blueprint. Thus, similar models were pursued elsewhere."