Marinehaus in Berlin, Germany by ADEPT

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Danish office ADEPT wins international museum competition in Berlin

For more than 20 years, the protected ‘Marinehaus,‘ originally a union club for naval officers, was left neglected in the central Berlin neighborhood, Mitte. Now the building, as a central part of the vision of the Berlin City Museum to establish a cultural cluster, is to be resurrected as a new museum typology. With a strong house-in-house concept, ADEPT wins the international competition ahead of 20 invited competitors.

The transformation of a 7.800 m2 protected building is part of the future strategy for Stadtmuseum Berlin, that includes a new type of museum – a creative and cultural pivot that anchors the museum in the everyday life of the neighborhood through exhibitions, workshops and as a community center for the locals.

ADEPT’s winning proposal shows how a simple house-in-house concept can create synergy between the new community functions and the historical frame, already integrated in the urban context. The existing floors are removed and replaced by a new interior wooden structure, allowing visual connections between floors and a warm inclusive identity to the project.

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• Architects: ADEPT
• Project: Marinehaus
• Location: Berlin, Germany
• Client: Stiftung Stadmuseum Berlin
• Size: 7.800 m2
• Year: 2018 – 2025

Image Courtesy © ADEPT

The director of Stadtmuseum Berlin, Paul Spies, praises the winning proposal for its way to create an open and inviting contribution to public life in the city, embracing both everyday life and cultural communities. At the same time, the winning proposal underlines the vision of an innovative urban laboratory focusing on the many aspects of Berlin as a city.

‘We are extremely proud and happy to have won 1st prize in the competition for such an amazing public initiative. Our proposal embraces both building and urban vision: a new flexible interior structure that creates spaces for both cultural activities and the local community, and at the same time a respectful transformation of the protected building’, says Martin Krogh, partner in ADEPT.

ADEPT is based in Copenhagen and works in the fields of urbanism and architecture with a specific focus on the human scale in cities, public space and public buildings. ADEPT has designed and completed a growing number of urban building projects in Denmark and internationally, and primarily adress the relation between cities and buildings in public space, among these culture and education buildings. The office is the architect behind Ku.Be House of Culture and Movement and the award winning Dalarna Media Library. In addition ADEPT is the lead architect of NEW AARCH, the first new construction for an architect school in Denmark.

Construction commences in 2022. The project has a budget of 17.6 mil Euro.

Section: New interior structure allows visual connections between floors and gives a warm inclusive identity to the project, Image Courtesy © ADEPT

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Facade: The existing building is transformed in respect of its heritage, Facade, Image Courtesy © ADEPT

Fourth-floor, Image Courtesy © ADEPT

Groundfloor, Image Courtesy © ADEPT

Tags: Berlin, Germany

Categories: Community Centre, Exhibition, Museum, Workshop

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