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CAROLINE AHRENS
DipLA  CMLI Landscape Architect
 
 

Specialist Subjects

aArchitecture
aLandscape Architecture
aUrban Planning
aHorticulture
aLighting Design
aother subjects

 

in particular ...

aBooks and booklets
aLectures and articles
 afor professional journals

aCatalogues and brochures
aDesign briefs, competition entries
aor presentations in print and
•aelectronic media
acomplete websites, DVDs, CD-ROMs
•aor software products
 
Projects    
Books: Kristin Freireiss (Ed)
'Passion City'
ST raum a. Landschaftsarchitektur
Munich: Prestel, June 2009, 355 pages
  Sandra Hofmeister (Ed)
'Mein liebster Stuhl/My favourite Chair'
Von Architekten, Designer und ihren Lieblingsstühlen/ Architects, Designers and their Favourite Chairs
Munich: Callwey Verlag, March 2008, 240 pages
  Ulrike Brandi, Christoph Geissmar-Brandi
'Light for Cities. Lighting design for urban spaces.
A Handbook'
Basel: Birkhäuser Verlag, September 2006
  Christa van Santen
'Lichtraum Stadt. Lichtplanung im urbanen Kontext'
Basel: Birkhäuser Verlag, 2006, 123 pages
  Ulrike Brandi Licht
Lighting Design - Principles, Implementation Case Studies
Basel: Birkhäuser Verlag, 2006, 112 pages
  Freie und Hansestadt Hamburg,
Behörde für Stadtentwicklung und Umwelt,
Amt für Landesplanung
'Spielbudenplatz, Dokumentation des Wettbewerbes 2004', Hamburg, 2004
 

Carl Fingerhuth, Ernst Joos, eds.
The Kunming Project: Urban Development in China – a Dialogue

Basel: Birkhäuser Verlag, 2002, 223 pages

 

Deutsches Architekturmuseum
Das Geheimnis der Schatten / Licht und Schatten in der Architektur
The Secret of the Shadow / Light and Shadow in Architecture
.
Frankfurt: 2002, 222 pages, eight sections

  Ulrike Brandi und Christoph Geissmar-Brandi.
Light Book – The practice of lighting design
.
Basel: Birkhäuser Verlag, 2001, 255 pages; correction
 

Masterplan Licht EXPO 2000 Hannover / Masterplan Light. Hamburg: Dölling und Galitz, 2000, 64 pages

 

EXPO 2000 GmbH
EXPO 2000 Hannover Nachnutzungen / Post-utilisation
Hamburg: Dölling und Galitz, 2000

 
     
 Brochures: aMein Baum, Meine Stadt
'Count me in!': More street trees for Hamburg

Ministry of Urban Development and the Environment, Hamburg, 2012
, 16 pages
  aHafenCity Sustainability Pavilion
Osaka 9 Info Pavilion and brochure
HafenCity Hamburg, 2012
  aCriteria for the accreditation of degree courses in landscape architecture
ASAP, Validation Organisation for Study Programmes in Architecture and Planning, 4th ed, Berlin, 2012, 11 pages
  aIBA Projekt Flyers
International Building Exhibition IBA Hamburg, 2011
,
9 project flyers
  aSustainable Construction in HafenCity
Eco Label HafenCity,

HafenCity GmbH, Hamburg, 2010
, 55 pages
  aClimate Factors Metropolis
Climate Protection Concept for a Renewable Wilhelmsburg
IBA HAMBURG, August 2008, 34 pages
n a
 

aSustainable Construction in HafenCity
Guidelines for Clients and Investors -
and for Building Design
,
HafenCity GmbH, Hamburg, 2008n a

  aTowards a new national urban development policy - Memorandum, Bundesministerium für Verkehr, Bau und Stadtentwicklung, Bundesministerium für Bauwesen und Raumordnung, Bonn/Berlin, Dezember 2008, 107 pagesand
  aUrban Planning and Development, HafenCity University Hamburg, Information for Students, Hamburg, 2007n and
     
Competition Design Briefs: 

Engel und Völkers Headquarters
Plot 60, HafenCity Hamburg,
Design Brief,
D&K consult, Hamburg, 2012

aInternational Building Exhibition IBA Hamburg
since 2009 numerous translations for IBA Hamburg GmbH,

IBA Stelen, IBA-Labor Climate Change Management, IBA@work, lectures, mintues, etc.

 

aSmart Material Houses'
Water Houses'
aHybrid Houses'
Pilot projects for IBA Hamburg GmbH, D+K consult,
Hamburg, 2009

 

aDanevirke and Haithabu'
International Design Competition Brief,
Kreis Schleswig-Flensburg in cooperation with Archäologisches Landesamt Schleswig-Holstein,
Architektur + Stadtplanung, Baum Schwormstede GbR, 2009

  aEurope Tower Sofia'
Architectural Workshop in Sofia, Bulgaria,
Design Brief and Report, ECE, D+K consult, Hamburg, 2007
  aArchitecture Olympiad Hamburg 2006'
Competition Brief and Documentation,
D+K consult, Hamburg, 2006
  aSUTOR Prize 2006' - A cathedral for electricity - The former power station on the River Bille in Hamburg - Hammerbrook', Students Competition, Design Brief and Documentation, D+K consult, Hamburg, 2007
  a2007 Urban Land Institute Students Design Competition, Hamburg Rothenburgsort -
Strategies for urban redevelopment',

D+K consult, Hamburg, 2007
  aRiverGardens’, International Urban Planning and Design Workshop, Prague,
D+K consult, Hamburg, 2005/6,
  aÖstlicher Baakenhafen - Chicago Square’, International Urban Planning and Architecture Study, Behörde für Stadtentwicklung und Umwelt, Hamburg, 2004  
 

aNeugestaltung des Spielbudenplatzes /
Redevelopment of Spielbudenplatz
’,
International Design Competition, 
D+K consult, Hamburg
, 2004

a'Sprung über die Elbe / Leap across the Elbe’, International Architecture Workshop, Hamburg, 2003
a'Erweiterung des Congress Centrums Hamburg / Extention of the Congress Centrum Hamburg’,
International Design Competition,

D+K consult, Hamburg
, 2003
a‘Erneuerung des Jungfernstieg in Hamburg Redevelopment of Jungfernstieg in Hamburg’, International landscape and architectural ideas competition,
D+K consult, Hamburg, 2002
a‘Bavaria Gelände Hamburg - St. Pauli’,
International Design Competition,
D+K consult, Hamburg, 2002
a'Docks Prague 8’,
International Urban Planning and Design Workshop, Prague,

D+K consult, Hamburg
, 2001
     
Articles for Professional Journals: aTopos - The International Review of Landscape Architecture and Urban Design, Callwey Verlag, Munich,
since 2005
  aPd. Prof. Dirk Schubert. Theodor Fritsch and the German (völkische) version of the Garden City – The Garden City invented two years before Ebenezer Howard. Planning Perspectives, 19, January 2004  
 

aGarten & Landschaft, professional journal for
Landscape Architecture

 
     
Lectures / Articles: aPd. Prof. Dirk Schubert. 'Shifts from ships to chips:
Waterfront revitalisation from local to regional perspectives in European port cities (Hamburg, Barcelona, Rotterdam, London),
2009
 
 

aPd. Prof. Dirk Schubert. 'Seaport Cities – Phases of Spatial Restructuring and Types and Dimensions of Redevelopment '
HafenCity University Hamburg, Paper, 2009

 
 

aPd. Prof. Dirk Schubert. 'Flammable Cities: Fire, Urban Environment and Culture in History'
Conference at the German Historical Institute, Washington, DC, May 15 – 17, 2008

 
  aPd. Prof. Dirk Schubert. 'Ever Changing  Waterfront'– Urban development and  transformation processes in ports and waterfront zones in Singapore Hong Kong and Shanghai' 2005  
  aProf. Dr. Werner Hofmann, Masterdrawings, Horst Janssen, An introduction on the opening of the exhibition on 7 October 2004 at the Kunsthalle Hamburg,
St Gertrude, Hamburg, 2005
a'International High Rise Award 2004', Deutsches Architekturmuseum, Frankfurt, 2004  
  aGene Desfor, Roger Keil,    Stefan Kipfer and Gerda Wekerle; 'Planning the future of the competitive city in Toronto', York University, Toronto, 2003  
  aPd. Prof. Dirk Schubert. Transformation of Hamburg and London - A comparative study of two cities, rivers and ports and different types of urban and socio-cultural development. Universität Hamburg-Harburg, Paper for the Sixth International  
Conference on Urban History – Edinborough, 2002
 
  aM. Auley. Glasgow – City on Water / Glasgow – Stadt am Wasser. 2001  
  aN. Falk. Urban Waterfront Revitalisation / Städtische Uferbereiche Lehre für eine erfolgreiche Erneuerung, 2000  
  aPd. Prof. Dirk Schubert. Paul B. Jaskot: The Architecture of Oppression. (book review).
Technical University Hamburg-Harburg, 2001
 
  aJan Van Alsenoy, Jef Van den Broek, Jef Vanreusel. Antwerp/Belgium „City on the River“ Cultural Event and Urban Project, 2000  
     
Catalogues:  

aCatalogue of Trees and Shrubs 2006, Bruns Pflanzen. Bad Zwischenahn. (reworked edition), 1060 pages.
All reworked editions since 2000/2001

 
Websites, Practice Brochures,
Reference lists etc.:
awww.gartenlabor.de
Landscape Architects
 
awww.ulrike-brandi.de
Lighting Designers
awww.bruns.de
Tree Nursery
awww.gillacremer.de
Theater Unikate
 
 
Computer Software: aL.E.O.S. Light. Energy Optimisation and Service. 1.10 CD-ROM. Lighting Design and Contracting Software. AutoCAD add-on for lighting designers. Client: HEWContractGesellschaft für Energie und Service mbH, 2000
aBruns Pflanzen CD-ROM (Tree nursery)
 
Other Clients:

aLatz + Partner, Landschaftsarchitekten Stadtplaner, Kranzberg
aGartenlabor Landschaftsarchitekten, Hamburg
aTUM Technische Universität München
aOCEAN10, Hamburg
aBDLA Bund Deutscher Landschaftsarchitekten
aLausundproductions, Berlin
aBoran Burchhardt, Hamburg
aops urbanelandschaften, Hamburg
atrint+kreuder d.n.a. Architekten, Collogne

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