Berlin - Urban Architecture and Daily Life since 2009

Berlin Urban Architecture and Daily Life Since 2009

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Berlin is a Constant Construction Site

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Culture and Education 1 Floating University raumlaborberlin ○ 2 Futurium Berlin Richter Musikowski ○ 3 Neues Museum David Chipperfield Architects, Julian Harrap ○

From Classicism to Contemporary Sandra Hofmeister 4 James Simon Gallery David Chipperfield Architects Berlin 5 Ernst Busch Academy of Dramatic Arts O&O Baukunst 6 Park am Gleisdreieck Atelier Loidl 7 Berlin Metropolitan School Sauerbruch Hutton Interview Matthias Sauerbruch: Experiments, Niches, and Urban Qualities 8 Arndt-Gymnasium AFF Architekten 9 Renovation of the Berlin State Library Unter den Linden hg merz 10 silent green Kulturquartier Kombinativ

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Living 11 Wohnregal FAR frohn&rojas ○ 12 IBeB ifau + Heide & von Beckerath ○ 13 Am Lokdepot Robertneun ○

Berlin Building Groups: The City for Personal Use Florian Heilmeyer 14 Ausbauhaus Neukölln Praeger Richter Architekten 15 Building Group Project BIGyard zanderroth architekten 16 Glashütte Alt-Stralau Eyrich Hertweck Architekten 17 Walden 48 ARGE Scharabi, Anne Raupach Interview Tanja Lincke: Centrifugal City 18 Home on the Spree Tanja Lincke 19 Haus L Kersten + Kopp 20 Single-Family Home brandt + simon architekten Essay Giants of the 1970s Florian Heilmeyer

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Work 21 taz Publishing House E2A Architekten ○ 22 Axel Springer Publishing House OMA ○ 23 Suhrkamp Publishing House Bundschuh Architekten ○

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Airports and Train Stations: Re-Sorted and Re-Used Jasmin Jouhar 24 Luisenblock West Sauerbruch Hutton 25 The Box AHM Architekten 26 Office and Studio Building Ritterstrasse 8 BCO Architekturen 27 Office Expansion David Chipperfield Architects Berlin Interview David Chipperfield: In Dialogue with History 28 Tierpark Berlin Administration Building ZRS Architekten Ingenieure Lobe Block Terrace House Brandlhuber+ Emde, Burlon / 29 Muck Petzet Architekten 30 Up! Berlin Jasper Architects, Gewers Pudewill

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Projects

1 Floating University raumlaborberlin ○ 2 Futurium Richter Musikowski ○ 3 Neues Museum David Chipperfield ○ 4 ○ 5 ○ 6 ○ 7 ○

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Architects, Julian Harrap James Simon Gallery David Chipperfield Architects Berlin Ernst Busch Academy of Dramatic Arts O&O Baukunst Park am Gleisdreieck Atelier Loidl Berlin Metropolitan School Sauerbruch Hutton Arndt-Gymnasium AFF Architekten Renovation of the Berlin State Library Unter den Linden hg merz silent green Kulturquartier Kombinativ Wohnregal FAR frohn&rojas IBeB ifau + Heide & von Beckerath Am Lokdepot Robertneun Ausbauhaus Neukölln Praeger Richter Architekten Building Group Project BIGyard zanderroth architekten Glashütte Alt-Stralau Eyrich Hertweck Architekten

17 Walden 48 ARGE Scharabi I Raupach ○ 18 Home on the Spree Tanja Lincke ○ 19 ○ 20 ○ 21 ○ 22 ○ 23 ○ 24 ○ 25 ○ 26 ○ 27 ○ 28 ○ 29 ○ 30 ○

Architekten Haus L Kersten Kopp Architekten Single-Family Home brandt + simon architekten taz Publishing House E2A Architekten Axel Springer Publishing House OMA Suhrkamp Publishing House Bundschuh Architekten Luisenblock West Sauerbruch Hutton The Box AHM Architekten Office and Studio Building Ritterstrasse 8 BCO Architekturen Office Expansion David Chipperfield Architects Berlin Tierpark Berlin Administration Building ZRS Architekten Ingenieure Lobe Block Terrace House Brandlhuber+ Emde, Burlon / Muck Petzet Architekten Up! Berlin Jasper Architects, Gewers Pudewill

Structural design: Buro Happold Completion: 2018/2019/2021 Area: Building approx. 400 m2 Use: Culture, education

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Lilienthalstrasse 32, Kreuzberg 🌐 floating-berlin.org @floatinguniversity

raumlaborberlin

Half Planned, Half Improvised Floating University

Since 2018, Berlin’s first university built on piles has been located right across from the site of the former Tempelhof Airport airfield, nestled between sports fields and an allotment garden colony. Its architecture is as unusual as the location and the concept of the Floating University – which, as mandated by the Berlin Senate, is no longer allowed to call itself a university and has since written its name with the word crossed out.

What at first glance may look like a forgotten frog pond is actually one of the rainwater retention basins built in the 1930s to drain the Tempelhof airfield during heavy rainfall. The basins still function today: when it rains, a pond forms, slowly draining into the Landwehr Canal.

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For security reasons, the site remained closed for more than 80 years; this enabled the development of a unique ecosystem with myriad plant, animal, and algae species. It is a place full of paradoxes: oddly removed from the city yet located in the city center, created by humans and reclaimed by nature, a hybrid between a dystopian vision of the future and a contemporary jungle paradise.

The architecture collective raumlaborberlin has already dealt with the vast open space of Tempelhofer Feld and its possibilities for appropriation in the past. Among other things, they organized a Do-It-Yourself World Exhibition for artists there in 2012. This is also how the collective came across the rainwater basin. By 2018, they had developed a concept for its temporary use as an “offshore campus” for dialogue on the future of cities.

Raumlabor invited cooperation partners, including 25 European universities, and submitted funding applications. Then began the construction of an initial basic structure comprising timber buildings, walkways, platforms, seating, and gathering areas stretching across the shallow basin. Open wooden structures, some of them with multiple levels, are supplemented with scaffolding and plastic elements as well as fabric for sun and rain protection.

Half planned, half improvised, a robust raw structure was created that constantly changes according to the skills and desires of its users.

Every year, new versions or interpretations of the university emerge, like a song covered by different performers. A diverse program quickly developed, featuring concerts, readings, discussions, workshops, film screenings, barbecues, dance performances, nature tours, and sports courses. A non-profit association was established to turn the temporary facility into a permanent one. In 2021, at the Architecture Biennale in Venice, Floating University received the festival’s highest award, the Golden Lion. The exemplary project shows how residual urban spaces can be conquered, activated, interpreted, and implemented in multiple ways with little intervention. Nevertheless, its future is uncertain, as the state-owned Tempelhof Projekt GmbH and the municipal district would prefer to see the temporary structures removed. Paradoxically, its success and popularity seem to be the project’s biggest threat. fh

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Site plan Scale 1:2,000

○1 Floating University raumlaborberlin

The educational campus that occupies the rainwater retention basin at the

former Tempelhof Airport is a constantly changing, do-it-yourself structure.

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For decades, the rainwater retention urban wasteland could be infused with basin lay dormant. Then a diverse group a new identity, even on a small budget. led by raumlaborberlin showed how

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Clients: UTB Projektmanagement (Am Lokdepot 1–5, 9, 11–12), Grundstücksverwaltungsgesellschaft Heyden (Am Lokdepot 6), private building group (Am Lokdepot 7/8 and 10) Structural design: ARUP Germany, IB-bauArt Berlin, Ingenieurbüro Doliva Landscape design: Atelier Loidl, Lohrengel Landschaft Completion: 2017 Area: Approx. 19,000 m2 Use: Residential, studios, commercial, restaurants Housing units: Approx. 220

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Am Lokdepot 1–6, 10, Kreuzberg

Robertneun

Show Your Colors Am Lokdepot

In the 2000s, a 20,000-square-meter lot was still vacant at the southern end of Park am Gleisdreieck, located on the border between the districts of Schöneberg and Kreuzberg in a north-south direction along a busy railroad track. Because of the noise, the land around the two former halls of the locomotive depot – flat industrial buildings made of steel and brick – was designated as a commercial area. An investor asked Robertneun Architects for a design study. At their own risk, the architects came up with three possibilities, one of which was residential. They recognized the potential of this location with its wide view over the tracks and the adjacent sports fields: A more open horizon is hard to find in Berlin. With their residential proposal, they won over the

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investor and then the two districts, which made the necessary changes in the urban development plan so it could be built.

Robertneun drew up design specifications for the whole row of 15 houses and around 220 apartments, plus commercial spaces, a bar, and studios on the first floor. In addition to the investor’s classic condominiums, two houses were allocated to building groups. The basic structure comprises plots of equal depth and 7, 14, or 21 meters wide; the architects speak of S, M, and L. The different sizes enabled a wide range of apartment typologies and sizes. All buildings share the same urban base of red brick, which compensates for the height differences of up to 7 meters along the entire length. The architects also specified the materials to be used and the shades of red for pigmented concrete, metal, and recycled bricks – tones derived from the industrial environment, particularly from the architecture of the old locomotive depot.

Seven of the 15 buildings were designed by Robertneun and demonstrate the architectural possibilities within the specifications. At the base level, the entrances celebrate the imposing floor heights with massive entrance gates and oversized house numbers. The six floors above offer a variety of housing types, even in the narrowest of buildings: one-bedroom apartments that can be connected to neighboring duplexes if needed, full-length apartments, and apartments with interlocking split levels. The facades reflect the diversity inside, be it with a metal shelf installed in front of the house for deep loggias or balconies that protrude far from the facade. Their bold red color does not at all seem like a provocation but appears surprisingly natural. fh

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The architects also developed the site plan. Aiming for a mix of housing types, they divided the long row into plots of different widths: size S for multilevel living around a two-story loggia; size M for single-floor apartments with a freight

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elevator and balcony as a second escape route; and size L with multi-unit apartments with winter gardens and cantilevered balconies.

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Sample unit arrangement, upper floor

Ground floor

Am Lokdepot 1: Isometric, floor plans, apartments

Scale 1:400

Third floor

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Clients: Lobe Block /Olivia Reynolds and Elke Falat Structural design: Pichler Ingenieure Site supervision: Muck Petzet Architekten Completion: 2018 Area: 2,800 m2 Use: Studios, offices, restaurant

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Böttgerstrasse 16, Wedding 🌐 lobe.berlin

Brandlhuber + Emde, Burlon, Muck Petzet Architekten

Logic of Indeterminacy Lobe Block Terrace House

The Lobe Block is a cheerful, neo-brutalist concrete mountain that fits surprisingly well into its heterogeneous surroundings in Wedding. The client Olivia Reynolds had approached the architects Arno Brandlhuber, Thomas Burlon, and Markus Emde with the request to design a flexible-use studio building, whose spaces she wanted to fill with select tenants from the creative industries. It was to have enough common areas to allow group creativity to emerge and potentially be used for residential purposes. Reynolds had found a plot of land in an industrial area less than 100 meters from the Gesundbrunnen train station. The three architects, who with their office b+ often collaborate with external partners on a project-by-project basis, worked on this project with Muck Petzet Architekten.

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Together, they developed the basic form of a stepped building for the deep site, with deep floors lit only from the north and south. To the east, the new building adjoins the 40-meter-long firewall of the neighboring building; to the west, its closed concrete wall serves as a new firewall. The curved property boundary becomes a rugged relief with vertical offsets.

Attached to each floor is a 6-meter-wide terrace. Facing south, they connect almost seamlessly with the interior through a glass facade with floor-to-ceiling sliding doors. Two sculptural staircases connect these terraces to form a semi-public space. These spaces serve as meeting places, where tenants meet on their way to their studio or office, during breaks, or at events on the terrace. When it rains, the water runs down the sloping terrace surfaces and stairs, transforming the building into a giant rock with a flowing waterfall. Towards the street in the north, the terracing at the rear forms a negative: The double-height ground level recedes 7.50 meters from the road, creating a covered forecourt beneath the projecting upper floors. The main access leads through a wide passage to the garden side and the two outdoor staircases.

According to the architects, the “logic of indeterminacy” applies both inside and out. Although the building is designed for commercial use, the visible installations and lightweight walls made of plasterboard or maritime pine plywood allow for easy conversion to residential use at any time.

Each unit has connections for kitchens and bathrooms, and all building code requirements for residential buildings were considered, such as fire protection and energy-saving regulations. Inside, the boundaries between living and working, inside and outside, community and privacy become blurred. The architecture asks its users not to take these limits for granted but to find them individually and shape the space according to their own needs – and to adapt it again and again. fh

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Site plan

Scale 1:4,000

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Section, floor plans

1 Forecourt 2 Coworking space 3 Kitchen 4 Restaurant

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