Hakenfelde: Amorbacher Weg

Amorbacher Weg is a residential area with planned housing estates and a structured urban layout in the outskirts of Berlin. The defining local feature of Amorbacher Weg is the deliberate relationship between housing blocks, pedestrian paths and clearly structured shared open space. How Amorbacher Weg is used over the course of the day depends on repeated building types, green courtyards and the separation of through traffic from internal routes. Amorbacher Weg lies in the borough of Spandau, about 15 km west of central Berlin. From Amorbacher Weg toward Hakenfelde Nord and Westerwaldstraße, density, land use and street character shift step by step rather than at a sharp edge. The immediate streets and open spaces give Amorbacher Weg a recognisable local identity of its own. Together, these elements make the smaller everyday zones that exist inside a large planned layout central to the identity of Amorbacher Weg.