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YOUTH CLUB NW80 . BERLIN

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Even though the leisure time of young people often takes place in a digital parallel universe, a real place for various activities and community is a desire of this construction task.

Completed in 2024, the “Youth Club NW80” in Alt-Rudow, a district of Berlin’s Neukölln borough, presents itself as a striking new building and a contemporary replacement for a single-story building from the 1980s. The typical surroundings of this Berlin outskirts area are characterized by a single family housing structure with gabled alignment of the residential buildings to the former village street. The street-accompanying silhouette of this simple archetypal house was adopted and reinterpreted with the requirements of a youth center, placing a “house” centrally on Neudecker Weg. Continue reading AFF ARCHITEKTEN

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Kornversuchsspeicher Extension . BERLIN

AFF Architekten . photos: © TJARK SPILLE

The listed warehouse building was built in 1897/98, situated between the Berlin Spandau Ship Canal and the former Lehrter freight station, to experiment with differing methods of grain storage in response to the growing population of the late 19th century. Continue reading AFF

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SPORE INITIATIVE. Berlin

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The ‘Spore Initiative’ was completed in 2023, designed for the non- profit foundation Spore Initiative (est. 2020), and is located in the bustling urban neighborhood of Hermannstraße in Berlin-Neukölln. The surroundings are characterized by a complex of old cemetery areas and dense Wilhelminian-style perimeter blocks and the socially diverse neighborhood is in rapid transformation. Continue reading AFF Architekten