Brandlhuber+ Emde, Schneider . Muck Petzet Architekten . renders: © PONNIE
The proposal responds to a competition for a new residential high-rise and four additional residential buildings to be built upon a former parking lot in a central area of Berlin.
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Our project proposed increasing the housing density by 60% and put forward a different urban concept than prescribed by the brief. A shared plinth that contains collective facilities and atelier units connects the buildings. The atelier units are positioned along the entire length of the street behind a colonnade that redefines the urban space of the street. On top of this shared foundation, several separate building masses are placed to absorb the rhythm of the large-scale developments across the street. The upper arcade becomes a street that creates vertical closure and distances the apartments through air chambers and ‘front yards’. The arcade and the plinth are designed as reinforced concrete constructions, while the surmounted residential blocks are conceived as prefab wood systems. The compact, insulated volumes are wrapped in soundproofed and climatically buffering shells. The floor plans are consistently oriented towards the southern and quieter backside of the development. The residential units consist of flexible, functionally neutral spaces that can be connected as an open suite of rooms or used separately. Direct access to the upper floors supports the connection between living and working.
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0222 Köpenickerstraße:
Housing new densities
location
Köpenickerstraße, Berlin
year
2015
activity
competition
client
WBM Wohnungsbaugesellschaft Berlin-Mitte mbH
size
10.850 sqm rentable space requested
16.723 sqm delivered
budget
21.8 Mill.
architect
Brandlhuber+ Emde, Schneider & Muck Petzet Architekten
team
Muck Petzet, Arno Brandlhuber, Ksenjia Zdesar,
Blaz Skorjanc, Markus Rampl
renderings
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