Wilmersdorf: Brabanter Platz

Brabanter Platz is a smaller residential square surrounded by apartment buildings and local neighborhood life. Brabanter Platz is shaped above all by the relationship between the open square, its surrounding façades, paths and the streets that feed into it. In Brabanter Platz, the daily character emerges through changes in seating, greenery, pedestrian movement and the uses at the edges of the space. Brabanter Platz lies in the borough of Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf, about 7.5 km southwest of central Berlin. The transitions from Brabanter Platz toward Barstraße and Rüdesheimer Platz are gradual, marked by changes in building form, traffic and greenery. The immediate streets and open spaces give Brabanter Platz a recognisable local identity of its own. The character of Brabanter Platz is clearest along everyday routes between homes, public space and nearby destinations. Within Wilmersdorf, Brabanter Platz stands out through a clear public focus for the surrounding streets.