Description

The project consists of three different structures: the conversion of the existing transverse wing, the four-story row along the firewall (documented here), and a building on Köpenicker Straße. The new row is set off from the firewall roughly by the depth of the building; the intermediate space was transformed into a glazed access hall with ramps in the length of the building.

The plan of the building, legible as a meandering pattern, is comprised of two-apartment modules (apartments are divided by diagonal walls); the glass surfaces in front of the sleeping and living areas form another meandering pattern in plan, developed around the facade recesses.

The apartments are accessed via a short entry hallway; kitchen and small bedroom (with bed niche) can be entered from the living room. In the apartments along the access hall, the kitchens and baths are lit and ventilated via the hall; the outside-oriented apartments have baths located at the core, but kitchens with large windows to the park.

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Originally published in: Oliver Heckmann, Friederike Schneider (eds.), Floor Plan Manual Housing, fourth revised and expanded edition, Birkhäuser, 2011.