Hellersdorf: Havelländer Ring

Havelländer Ring forms part of a large residential estate with prefabricated buildings and structured open spaces. Havelländer Ring is shaped above all by the deliberate relationship between housing blocks, pedestrian paths and clearly structured shared open space. In Havelländer Ring, the daily character emerges through repeated building types, green courtyards and the separation of through traffic from internal routes. Havelländer Ring lies in the borough of Marzahn-Hellersdorf, about 13 km east of central Berlin. Havelländer Ring merges gradually into Gut Hellersdorf and Hellersdorfer Promenade; building scale, street activity and open space change before any clear boundary is felt. The immediate streets and open spaces give Havelländer Ring a recognisable local identity of its own. Within Hellersdorf, Havelländer Ring stands out through the smaller everyday zones that exist inside a large planned layout.