Microapartments am Georgengarten

Microapartments am Georgengarten
© Sigurd Steinprinz

MICROAPARTMENTS AM GEORGENGARTEN

ACMS Architekten

LOCATION
Hannover, Germany

CATEGORY
Apartments

CLIENT
Studentenwerk Hannover

LANDSCAPE ARCHITECT
Club L94 Landschaftsarchitekten

MANUFACTURERS
Dormakaba, FeBaTec Fenster, Stader Glas

LEAD ARCHITECTS
ACMS Architekten GmbH, Wuppertal

AREA
6500 m²

YEAR
2016

Text description provided by architect.

The new buildings were funded by the Ministry of Social Affairs, Health and Equality for Lower Saxony to facilitate the provision of affordable homes in conurbations for low-income households and improve the quality of the rented housing stock.

The student apartments on Lodyweg can also be offered, depending on need, to other demographic groups such as the elderly, single people of any age or apartment-sharing groups.

Microapartments am Georgengarten
© Sigurd Steinprinz

Changing the room structure, for example by combining several spatial units together, can be done without any problems thanks to the lightweight construction of all the party walls.

No new student halls of residence had been built in Hanover for 20 years. The project, which consists of 80 new apartments, ensures the availability of attractive and inexpensive living space near Leibniz University Hanover.

Four student dormitories from the 1950s originally stood on the ground owned by the student services organisation Studentenwerk Hannover.

Microapartments am Georgengarten
© Sigurd Steinprinz

Two of the existing buildings had to be replaced because of their dilapidated condition. A sheltered, communal internal courtyard was formed between loosely grouped volumes.

By offsetting the blocks to one another, the architects created a variety of pathways and wonderful visual relationships within the ensemble.

Microapartments am Georgengarten
© Sigurd Steinprinz
Microapartments am Georgengarten
© Sigurd Steinprinz

Minimising the circulation space within the buildings and placing the access stairways on the outside achieves a very high space efficiency quotient. Two blocks are served by one shared, open stairwell. Lifts can be installed as an option.

The building modules were arranged flexibly in rows or groups and sensitively integrated with the existing trees. The ground floor plinth with its robust masonry facing instead contains the student services organisation's working rooms and offices.

Microapartments am Georgengarten
© Sigurd Steinprinz
Microapartments am Georgengarten
© Sigurd Steinprinz

Should the need arise, these can be used for other purposes – such as offices, administration or business.

The apartments on the upper floors can be combined variously to create larger residential units thanks to the party walls between them being free of building services installations.

Microapartments am Georgengarten
© Sigurd Steinprinz

The concept of adding such housing modules of various sizes to a site is transferable to other urban spaces where an increased density of development is to be achieved while integrating with the existing urban context.

ENERGY EFFICIENCY

An optimised surface area/volume ratio ensures a low heating energy requirement. Thus it is possible to achieve high KfW Effizienzhaus standards. The new residential buildings on Lodyweg achieve close to passive house standard – KfW 40.


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