Quartier Schüt­zen­straße was built on a total area of approx. 8,540 m² and divided into 12 self-contai­ned plots. Spanning a total area of approx. 8,540 m², Quartier Schüt­zen­straße is an ensem­ble of buildings designed by the Italian archi­tect Aldo Rossi in Berlin’s Mitte district, nestled between Schüt­zen­straße, Charlot­ten­straße, Zimmer­straße and Markgrafenstraße.

Aldo Rossi reali­sed the design in colla­bo­ra­tion with the archi­tec­tu­ral firms Bellmann & Böhm and Luca Meda. The master plan was inspi­red by the pre-war architecture.

The incor­po­ra­tion of tradi­tio­nal design elements, that is the old plot struc­ture and eaves height, corre­spon­ded to the speci­fi­ca­ti­ons of the Senate Building Direc­tor Hans Stimmann. The complex conta­ins four inner courty­ards, inclu­ding an octago­nal one, and was built on a piece of fallow land of the Berlin Wall. Remains of a listed building on Schüt­zen­straße and of an apart­ment building were integra­ted into the façade. The façade of the apart­ment building was resto­red in Italian Neo-Renais­sance style. The façade of the building at Schüt­zen­straße 8 is a shortened, faithful copy of Michelangelo’s courty­ard façade at Palazzo Farnese in Rome.