Article source: gmp · Architekten von Gerkan, Marg und Partner
After a construction period of just 18 months and within the budget of 40 million euro the Isarphilharmonie concert hall in timber module construction, with about 1,900 seats, has now been completed. In combination with the former transformer building (Hall E), which has been refurbished to listed building standard, it will become the focal point of Gasteig HP8, the venue for Europe’s largest cultural center during its general overhaul. The architects von Gerkan, Marg and Partners (gmp) have succeeded within a very tight time frame and budget in creating an attractive venue with top-class acoustics of international standard that establishes the former Stadtwerke site in Sendling sustainably as a new, vibrant cultural quarter in Munich.
Design: Meinhard von Gerkan and Stephan Schütz with Christian Hellmund
Project Lead (Philharmonic Concert Hall): Annette Löber
Project Lead (Hall E): Michael Scholz, Georg Folkmer (CL MAP)
VgV Team: Christian Dorndorf, Thiago Henriques, Thilo Zehme, Anastasia Protsenko, Christoph Rohner
Design Team: Anna von Aulock, Alessandro Dado, Christian Dorndorf, Jan-Peter Deml, Martin Muc, Christoph Rohner, Phillip Stillke, Udo Fricke (CL MAP), Claudia Hupfloher (CL MAP)
Efremidis is situated on the ground floor of the listed building designed for IBM by Rolf Gutbrod and Hermann Kiess in the early 1960s. The ground floor housed the data center of the blue giant which explains the higher than usual ceiling filled with air vents and -ducts. The exhibition space has been redesigned by CAMA A during the summer of 2018. Many original architectural features were retained in order to encourage reflections on the exhibition site. In the building, which was built by Rolf Gutbrod in the 1960s, the new gallery occupies the entire ground floor. In the past, the latest computer models were exhibited here – today it is a room in which contemporary art is shown.
On the edge of a densely built residential area in the Allgäu hills, we created a wooden house for a variety of uses. The adjacent popular recreation and landscape conservation area prompted us to incorporate the surrounding nature into the design of the house. The new building follows the proportions of the existing building from the 1960s. The staggered storey set back from the street communicates with the slope, whose original steepness we have restored. The restrained, horizontally structured architecture with a façade made of local wood blends harmoniously into the natural surroundings. Floor-to-ceiling glazing, visual axes and open living spaces that offer numerous views stage nature and bring it into the house.
The spacious loft on the ground floor of a commercial rear building in Berlin Kreuzberg is located in the rooms of a former car repair shop.
Together with the owner, a spacious living and working environment was created, which atmosphere is not only due to the choice of materials but also through technically complex and sophisticated measures such as the underfloor heating and the acoustic ceiling.
Both of these do not appear, but make a decisive contribution to wellbeing. An installation for the kitchen and bathroom with sauna was created in the former workshop, with a workspace and a media lounge on the upper level.
Article source: Ippolito Fleitz Group – Identity Architects
Especially in times like these, when the office has moved into everyone’s living room, the value of shared office spaces becomes crystal clear: While concentrated work is possible at home, collective work environments are places where co-creation, collaboration and communication prevail, thereby allowing completely new ideas to unfurl. They are places where corporate culture is lived and shaped, and where a sense of purpose is created through the symbiosis of different people and disciplines. With the new office for Schöller SI in Reutlingen, Ippolito Fleitz Group shows that such places can also be homey: Warm colours, an exciting materials mix and a natural look define this two-storey office. It not only creates a pleasant working atmosphere, but also reflects the values of an innovative project developer, whose core business is not just commercial, but above all residential real estate.
Article source: Ippolito Fleitz Group – Identity Architects
Their mission is clear: »WE wins the day.« As Germany’s largest private charity in the social sector, Aktion Mensch is dedicated to ensuring the normal coexistence of people with and without disabilities in all walks of life. Inclusion is key for this non-profit association, which has been financed through a social lottery for over 50 years. And this now becomes evident in their own headquarters in Bonn. But how can the impressive diversity of its team be fostered in everyday working life without limits and restraints becoming tangible? The answer: When we translate this WE into a design concept that takes diversity as its guiding principle. Interior architecture as a strong framework for the human.
Planning a head office for a municipal energy company can be a significantly different process depending on whether the location is an anonymous metropolitan structure, greenfield land or as in this case a 2000 year-old city like Regensburg, whose city center was included in the 2006 UNESCO World Heritage List.
Optimizing processes, increasing flexibility, creating an identity, linking company departments as well as a sensitive urban repairs – these were some of the project goals formulated by the client for a restricted competition in 2016.
The brewery hall for the start-up “Braurevolution” is being built on the long side of a plot on which there are already several utility and residential buildings. The elongated structure closes off the existing courtyard to the north and leaves space for a small beer garden facing the street.
The context of the surrounding mixed commercial area provides an industrial architectural language and invites inspiration from Bernd and Hilla Becher’s photographic works of old industrial buildings.
Thousands of excursionists used to enjoy homemade ice cream and lemonade on this historic lakeside property in Potsdam until the old park cafe there closed its doors. 25 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, Berlin-based architect Carlos Zwick fell in love with the overgrown property. He bought it, including dilapidated monuments, without a building permit, but with a vision: a family place was to be built here, a house that would uncompromisingly engage with the essential elements of the surrounding nature. Ancient trees, water and the nature preserved emperor terraces – given the name due to the fact that the emperor actually enjoyed drinking his coffee here in the past – determined the architectural concept. Today, the passive house stands on 40 diagonal iron stilts whose 10 individual foundations respectfully touch the emperor’s terraces only at specific points. A steel grid supports the wooden floors, walls and ceilings. The ecological balance is in place – this is ensured by the sustainable building materials as well as the solar thermal system on the roof.
Prof. Herrmanns: If you compare the competition drawings with the structural results, there are hardly any differences. What changes have there been?
In fact, it was mainly refinements and specifications. One change was the renouncement of the playability of the flat roof. There were of course good reasons against it. And at the beginning you don’t know exactly what the facade will look like in the end. After intensive studies, we decided on facing with clinker brick slips. Not least because the old building has a clinker brick facade.
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