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permit gardening opportunities for residents. Residents have expressed the
desire to partake in urban farming, but monitoring risk management is an extra
set of resources that would have to be allocated to the building (Patterson
2014).

5.2.4 Block scale: DaimlerChrysler Project, Potsdamer Platz, Berlin,
Germany
5.2.4.1 Project objectives
The Potsdamer Platz exempliies block-scale projects that successfully combine
stormwater infrastructure with social infrastructure (see Table 5.4 and Figure 5.4 ).

Table 5.4 Project speciications: Potsdamer Platz

Location Berlin, Germany

Completion 1998

Project area 17,000 m 2 capturing and treating stormwater

Project type Mixed, residential, commercial, recreational

Project budget/cost $13.8 million US$ in 1998

Roof area • 19 roofs, netting 17,000 m 2

Volume of water mitigated/treated • 230,000 cubic litres per year

Awards/recognition • Wordwide irst inner city block stormwater management project

Consultant team (selected) • Landscape Architect (Living roof): Krueger und moehrle Stuttgart/Berlin,

Project Landscape Architect: Daniel Roehr
• Landscape Architect (Water features): Atelier Dreiseitl
• Architects: Renzo Piano (master planner), Richard Rogers, Lauber und
Woehr, Rafael moneo, Arata Isozaki, Hans Kollhoff

Client/owner • Daimler Chrysler AG until 2009

Rain

Extensive
living roof

Extensive
living roof

Intensive
courtyard
garden

Drain Drain

Discharge

Plants and gravel ilter

Overlow

Artiical lake

Rive Spree

Cistern Ultraviolet

treatment plant

Figure 5.4
Potsdamer Platz stormwater runoff system diagram