Falkenhagener Feld: Westerwaldstraße

Westerwaldstraße is a residential street with apartment buildings and a structured neighborhood layout. The defining local feature of Westerwaldstraße is the continuity of residential streets, courtyards, entrances and short routes to everyday services. How Westerwaldstraße is used over the course of the day depends on the relationship between building scale, street greenery and the small spaces used repeatedly by residents. Westerwaldstraße lies in the borough of Spandau, about 16 km west of central Berlin. The transitions from Westerwaldstraße toward An der Kappe and Germersheimer Platz are gradual, marked by changes in building form, traffic and greenery. The immediate streets and open spaces give Westerwaldstraße a recognisable local identity of its own. Together, these elements make the quality of ordinary daily life rather than a single landmark central to the identity of Westerwaldstraße.