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Trespassing the Future by Kattapa
June 20th, 2012 7:32 AM
I hadn't planned to scale a building, but I did. :)
When I first started going to Berlin, a friend of mine showed me an abandoned factory that was covered from head to toe in graffiti, about 6 floors of graffiti art. It was one of my favourite places, but I only visited it a couple of times before a security company moved in. And now it's just apartments, or whatever else they are now using the building for.
(My photos of this place are lost in cyberspace.)
However, there are plenty of other abandoned buildings in the area and I want to visit them before they meet the same fate. So I went to Köpenicker Straße, a nearby street at the river, because I knew there are a lot of abandoned buildings there.
The first building I found had already met the same fate. It had turned into a heavily guarded building site. For the second building however, I only had to climb a wall and a fence.
This, however, had only been the beginning of the evening, as I soon discovered another building to explore... :)
And more graffiti...
Whoever was managing this building had however found a more cost effective way of keeping people out.
This didn't stop me however. So I went scouting for an entrance point.
And found one:
I climbed onto the brick wall and onto the building.
Where I continued my climbing until I was at an entrance.
I was in...
Then, I discovered this.
Which just meant more climbing.
Now I was really in. (The irony being that I was doing this instead of parkour and ended up entering a building from the sixth floor.)
I went through the entire place and also onto a neighbouring roof. Here's a small selection of the pictures: (There are a lot more in the photo section.)
The other pictures:
When I first started going to Berlin, a friend of mine showed me an abandoned factory that was covered from head to toe in graffiti, about 6 floors of graffiti art. It was one of my favourite places, but I only visited it a couple of times before a security company moved in. And now it's just apartments, or whatever else they are now using the building for.
(My photos of this place are lost in cyberspace.)
However, there are plenty of other abandoned buildings in the area and I want to visit them before they meet the same fate. So I went to Köpenicker Straße, a nearby street at the river, because I knew there are a lot of abandoned buildings there.
The first building I found had already met the same fate. It had turned into a heavily guarded building site. For the second building however, I only had to climb a wall and a fence.
This, however, had only been the beginning of the evening, as I soon discovered another building to explore... :)
And more graffiti...
Whoever was managing this building had however found a more cost effective way of keeping people out.
This didn't stop me however. So I went scouting for an entrance point.
And found one:
I climbed onto the brick wall and onto the building.
Where I continued my climbing until I was at an entrance.
I was in...
Then, I discovered this.
Which just meant more climbing.
Now I was really in. (The irony being that I was doing this instead of parkour and ended up entering a building from the sixth floor.)
I went through the entire place and also onto a neighbouring roof. Here's a small selection of the pictures: (There are a lot more in the photo section.)
The other pictures:
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posted by Kattapa on June 23rd, 2012 4:26 AM
The trespassing was sort of coincidental. My main motive was to visit these places when I still have the opportunity.
I love this.
But did you mean to do this task instead?