Haus der Statistik
The so called Haus der Statistik is creating space for art, culture, social and educational activities, affordable housing, public administration and the town hall of the future for the Mitte district. After many years of vacancy, the site in the heart of Berlin is being developed in a cooperative manner for the common good – jointly by urban society and the public sector.
The aim is an inclusive and sustainable urban design that creates space for new ideas, co-design and communal use – a vibrant place by and for everyone.
KOOP5 / ZUsammenKUNFT Berlin
Haus der Statistik
2025
For the relaunch of the website, we worked with the ZUsammenKUNFT Berlin team to give the complexity of the site an accessible structure. The diversity of the site provides a natural amount of information: Numerous events and regular offers happen simultaneously. It was important to present this without making access difficult. We therefore opted for a fluid structure and in-depth levels that can be used when details are important or not when a quick overview is required.
With a clear, modular information architecture, we have brought order to the multitude of projects, players and processes. What was previously scattered across different structures and pages can now be found in context – from the development of the neighbourhood with the new Rathaus Mitte to the allocation of rooms for event organizers and the meetings of the neighbourhood association. The constantly changing structure of the area with the current roles of the buildings is also given a permanent place on the new website.
The diverse program can be clearly filtered by format, topic and date. One task was to lay the foundation for the future organizational structure of the approx. 100 tenants. The appointments are now updated automatically via an API connection with the in-house calendar software. In doing so, we laid the foundation for fully digitalized room organization in the future. Because where there is a calendar, an external booking interface and transponder access are not far away.
Numerous initiatives, so-called pioneers, are developing the neighborhood of tomorrow in the HdS. A total of around 100 non-profit tenants from the cultural, educational and social sectors will later move into the renovated spaces. The diversity of actors that has grown over the years needs to be neatly organized later on. For this purpose, we have created a structure that allows former and current pioneers and future tenants to be presented separately.
Formally, the design is based on the architecture of the neighborhood. Processuality, fragmentation and deliberate references to the unfinished characterize the visual appearance.
Images by
Harry Sachs & Nils Könning, ZUsammenKUNFT Berlin eG
