The design concept by behet bondzio lin architekten for the Association of the Northwest German Textile and Garment Industry aims to provide all employees with a view of the picturesque landscape to the north and to welcome those arriving from the south with a strong textile image. The elongated structure is enclosed on three sides by a completely closed brick facade. The volume, closed to the east, south and west and open to the north, is the basis for an energy-optimized office building.
Office principals Andreas Reeg and Marc Dufour-Feronce place special attention on the local connection of their buildings. This also applies to the choices of materials they use. With the cork screw house they developed a base out of rammed concrete for the lower ground living levels. The outdoor walls of the long stretched pool are also lined with the material. The base was supposed to look and feel „like it was excavated“ explains architect Andreas Reeg. The century old construction material is traditionally applied in layers and then manually compacted. This results in an open, porous and characterful textured surface.
The project brief required the provision of a working space and a sleeping area in a 10m2 room of a ground floor apartment at an “Altbau” building in Friedrichshain, Berlin.
The 3.40m height of the room allowed the sleeping area to be located at the top part, leaving the ground floor free for a generous workspace.
The clients wanted the staircase to the mezzanine to be comfortable and sturdy, but with a light appearance.
Ideally to be used also as a bookshelf for few books.
High on the sloping grounds the new building fills a gap in an existing hillside development with views over the city of Tübingen.
The spatial arrangement for the five-member young family with cat and dog is divided into three levels. Serving rooms with a studio on a slope, individual rooms for parents and children on the upper floor and the garden level with its spacious communal living area.
This house for a family with two children is located in a quiet residential street on the western edge of Reutlingen. The characteristics of the place are formative influences for the design: The property is beneath the widely visible Achalm – the scenic landmark of the city – and slopes steeply downward to the northwest, offering an impressive vista that extends into the Black Forest.
The re-planning of the Dorotheen Quartier not only creates new areas for public use, it also offers a unique opportunity to reassess the relationship with the Karlsplatz arcade. This thoroughfare has, until now, always been perceived as the less important “back” of the site, situated behind the Breuninger Department Store, and leading towards Sporerstraße and Karlstraße. With this project, which includes three mixed-use buildings with offices, small-scale retail and urban living, the highly valuable central city core is now infused with a new identity and vitality – complete with a broad range of user activities. Thus, the new area augments Stuttgart’s existing, thriving network of lively pedestrian areas.
From May to September 2018 raumlaborberlin creates a visionary inner city offshore laboratory for collective, experimental learning: Floating University Berlin. Students and scientists from more than twenty international universities come together with artists from all over the world, local experts, architects, musicians, dancers, neighbors and visitors for this experiment of applied science to challenge routines and habits of urban practices.
The aim of the project was to expand an existing building by three sleeping rooms, a bathroom and an undefined space that could be used freely by the children. The direct access to the garden from the main building, as well as an existing tree should be maintained, leaving just a small space to locate the extension.
The houses shall be elevated on stilts above parking lots in the city of Trier. They can easily be installed, and because it’s a pre-fabricated design, a pop-up village could be built quickly.
The situation in the housing market has exacerbated. Even in recent years, far too few apartments have been built in the inexpensive segment. So affordable housing must be re-implemented as soon as possible.
With this significant building AllesWirdGut marks the structural upgrading of this part of the inner city of Erlangen in Bavaria. The new Provincial Government Office forms the pivotal element of the district development. The development responds to regional and supraregional relations and links important inner-city connections. Several finger-like structures gather around an atrium and resemble a four-leaf clover. Open spaces are created around the building by moving the building from its immediate property lines, which complement and enhance the public space in terms of quality.
Team Execution: Bernhard Schnetz, Christian Zotz, Christof Braun, Ferdinand Kersten, Katharina Kuchler, Michael Strixner, Nadine Tschinke, Petra Panna Nagy
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