Quarter of Nations in Hamburg, Germany by Gerber Architekten

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Sumit Singhal
Sumit Singhal loves modern architecture. He comes from a family of builders who have built more than 20 projects in the last ten years near Delhi in India. He has recently started writing about the architectural projects that catch his imagination.

Quarter of Nations in Hamburg, Germany by Gerber Architekten

June 11th, 2015 by Sumit Singhal

Article source: Gerber Architekten

The ‘Quarter of Nations‘ in Hamburg’s Wilhelmsburg district was created in connection with the IBA 2013 – a model intercultural housing project intended to house more than 1,700 inhabitants originating from 30 different nations. Gerber Architekten extended a traditional workers’ housing development with two new buildings that respond to the most fundamental elements of the existing architecture and reinterpret them by incorporating sculptural head-end volumes, whilst simultaneously reconciling them with the high energy efficiency requirements of a passive building. There are a total of 75 publicly-funded housing units, of different sizes and offering different forms of accommodation; they combine accommodation types suitable for single persons, couples and families, thereby ensuring an appropriately-mixed social profile for the ‘Quarter of Nations‘.

Image Courtesy © Hans-Jürgen Landes / HG Esch

Architects: Gerber Architekten
Project: Quarter of Nations
Location: Hamburg, Germany
Photography: Hans-Jürgen Landes / HG Esch
Client: SAGA GWG
Competition: 2008
Construction: 05/2012 – 09/2014
Completion: 09/2014
GFA: 10.520 m2

Image Courtesy © Hans-Jürgen Landes / HG Esch

Landscape Architecture: Andresen Landschaftsarchitekten Lübeck
Structural Framework: ISP Ingenieure
HVACR: KPI Planungsgesellschaft GbR
Sound insulation and room acoustics: Taubert und Ruhe GmbH
Fire protection: IFB Schütte
Passive house planner: IB Rozynski and Dipl.-Ing. Robert Heinicke Architekt, Zertifizierter Passivhausplaner

Image Courtesy © Hans-Jürgen Landes / HG Esch

Project team:
- Architect: Prof. Dipl.-Ing. Eckhard Gerber
- Project director: Dipl.-Ing. Jens Haake
- Project leader: Dipl.-Ing. Britta Küest, Dipl.-Ing. Arthur Schiebelbein,
- Competition and design: Prof. Dipl.-Ing. Eckhard Gerber, Dipl.-Ing. Hannes Beinhoff, Dipl.-Ing. Britta Küest, Dip.-Ing. Anna Radicke
- Planning: Dipl.-Ing. Britta Küest, Dipl.-Ing. Mariella Kiourktsoglou, Dipl.-Ing. Diana Vugner, Dip.-Ing. Semra Yüksel, Dipl.-Ing. Soudabeh Zerangi, Dipl.-Ing. Rüdiger Ameling
- Construction management: Dipl.-Ing. Elke Kutschke, Dipl.-Ing. Britta Küest, Dipl.-Ing. Claus-Jürgen Tedt
- Management building process: Dipl.-Ing. Barbara Breitenbach

Image Courtesy © Hans-Jürgen Landes / HG Esch

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Tags: Germany, Hamburg

Category: Housing Development

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