New Housing on Briesestraße
NEW HOUSING ON BRIESESTRASSE
EM2N
CATEGORY
Apartments
YEAR
2020
PHOTOGRAPHS
Andrew Alberts
ACOUSTICS
Bauphysik Ritter, Potsdam
LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE
Man Made Land
PLANNING / COORDINATION
Ingenieur- und Sachverständigenbüro Karl-Heinz Quenzel, Karl-Heinz Quenzel
SURVEYORS
Ingenieursozietät Rek & Wieck
CONSTRUCTION CONSULTANCY / CONSTRUCTION ECONOMICS
GNEISE Planungs- und Beratungsgesellschaft mbH
MANUFACTURERS
Montana Bausysteme AG, Beton und Naturstein Babelsberg GmbH, VitrA Bad GmbH
PARTNERS
Mathias Müller, Daniel Niggli
SIGNAGE
Caroline Vogel, EM2N
TRAFFIC PLANNING
R+T Verkehrsplanung GmbH
PROJECT TEAM (COMPETITION)
Mathias Kampmann, António Mesquita, Inês Nunes, Jonas Rindlisbacher, Caroline Vogel, Leonard Wertgen
PROJECT TEAM (EXECUTION)
Laura Ball, Pia Brückner, Felix Dechert, Götz Lachenmann
BUILDING SERVICES
GNEISE Planungs- und Beratungsgesellschaft mbH
CONSTRUCTION MANAGEMENT / CONSTRUCTION REALISATION
Implenia Hochbau GmbH
CIVIL ENGINEER (COMPETITION)
Schnetzer Puskas Ingenieure AG
PROJECT LEADER
Henrike Kortemeyer
FIRE PROTECTION ENGINEER
KLW Ingenieure GmbH
CLIENT
STADT UND LAND Wohnbauten-Gesellschaft mbH
ASSOCIATES
Fabian Hörmann, Verena Lindenmayer
FIRE PROTECTION
Berlin, Andreas Wilke Ingenieurbüro für Bauphysik und Baukonstruktion GmbH
CIVIL ENGINEER (EXECUTION)
Ingenieurbüro Rüdiger Jockwer GmbH
TENDERING / QUALITY ASSURANCE
HW-Ingenieure GmbH
BUILDING SCIENCE
Andreas Wilke Ingenieurbüro für Bauphysik und Baukonstruktion GmbH, Potsdam
Text description provided by architect.
Made up of several constituent parts, this building mediates at the joint between the heterogeneous block perimeter development with its typical firewalls and the large, meandering late modern structures dating from the Sixties and Seventies.
The new building increases the density of the site and unites the two different scales and typologies, the slab, and the courtyard, which dominate its surroundings.
The proposed geometry nestles up against the firewalls of the existing neighbouring buildings and with its central courtyard creates an outdoor space of considerable quality.
By making one wing of the new building taller than the buildings immediately beside it, an independent symbol is placed in the district.
The functions proposed for the ground floor, such as a café with outdoor seating on Kienitzer Straße and flexibly sized studios along Briesestraße, activate the urban space.
Each of the four parts of the building reacts with a simple basic structure and typology to its specific position within the system. The apartments created the range in size from 1 to 4 rooms and there are also studio apartments and larger apartments with additional communal areas.
Within the flexible ‘shelf’ the apartment mix could be adapted with little effort or expenditure.The generously dimensioned internal courtyard becomes the social centre of the housing development.
The access decks facing onto the courtyard are a circulation and balcony structure with the potential to be appropriated by the community of residents.
Two passageways on the ground floor lead into the communal courtyard, which thanks to its partly planted, partly hard-surfaced terracing makes an urban impression.
The appearance of this made-to-measure urban piece in the heterogeneous urban mesh of the Rollberg district results from the use of industrial materials which, through their detailing, the way they are put together, and their particular resonance, emanate a high level of quality.
Facades with French windows and cladding of large aluminium panels rise from a robust exposed concrete plinth. This materialization provides an unpretentious background for the appropriation of the building by its residents.
