Altglienicke: Kosmos Viertel

Kosmos Viertel is a planned residential area with substantial open space in the borough of Treptow-Köpenick. The local streetscape is chiefly defined by apartment buildings and compact residential blocks; planned housing, courtyards and clearly structured open spaces; larger apartment blocks and high-rise buildings; as well as parks, mature trees and everyday green space. How Kosmos Viertel is used over the course of the day depends on repeated building types, green courtyards and the separation of through traffic from internal routes. Kosmos Viertel lies about 15 km southeast of central Berlin. Kosmos Viertel merges gradually into Dorf Altglienicke and Kölner Viertel; building scale, street activity and open space change before any clear boundary is felt. Together, these elements make the smaller everyday zones that exist inside a large planned layout central to the identity of Kosmos Viertel.