Studios Frobenstraße 1

Studios Frobenstraße 1
© Aya Schamoni

STUDIOS FROBENSTRAßE 1

BOLLES+WILSON

ARCHITECTS
BOLLES+WILSON

SERVICE ENGINEER
Ingenieurbüro Norbert Lüttgens

STRUCTURAL ENGINEER
ahw ingenieuere GmbH

INTERIOR DESIGN
studio f1

BUILDING SERVICES, FIRE PROTECTION, BUILDING PHYSICS
Andreas Wilke GmbH

CATEGORY
Mixed Use Architecture, Apartments, Commercial Architecture

PHOTOGRAPHS
Aya Schamoni

LOCATION
Berlin, Germany

AREA
2300 m²

YEAR
2020

Text description provided by the architects

Finished in late 2020 Frobenstraße 1 offers for renting 11 variously sized apartments and 2 commercial units in an area of fashionable shops, galleries, street prostitution, social housing, and huge investor-driven developments for owner-occupied apartments.

Studios Frobenstraße 1
© Aya Schamoni
Studios Frobenstraße 1
© Aya Schamoni

Frobenstraße 1 is a chorus member. It is not a Primadonna that steps out to the front stage. The choreography of urban choruses is the metropolis-DNA of Berlin, Paris, or Barcelona.

It defines the street line and the eaves line. In Frobenstraße 1 the upper facade limit is articulated with a recessed shadow line, a modest but significant detail.

Studios Frobenstraße 1
© Aya Schamoni
Studios Frobenstraße 1
© Aya Schamoni

The well-behaved chorus anticipates a fictive future block-perimeter conclusion to the south, where there is now a Kindergarten (with luxurious trees). Here the pink sidewall (firewall) presents itself to the kids with its giant footprint graphic.

Unlike the Belle Etage of a Paris House, the first floor has the standard 3,10m room height, but its special relation to the street is prescribed by the delicate and continuous railing.

Studios Frobenstraße 1
© Aya Schamoni
Studios Frobenstraße 1
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The window composition to the street describes the internal layout where three apartments break out of the standard, but generous 3,10m room height to 4,80m and 6,50m.

The grey facade has therefore aspirations to be read as a palazzo, with the projecting penthouse window playing the classic Attica.

Studios Frobenstraße 1
© Aya Schamoni
Studios Frobenstraße 1
© Aya Schamoni
Studios Frobenstraße 1
© Aya Schamoni

The garden facade is more domestic, balconies meandering out for afternoon sun and individual planting. For the interior communal stair and lift noble black and white tiles dignify homecoming.


Studios Frobenstraße 1
© Aya Schamoni
Studios Frobenstraße 1
© Aya Schamoni
Studios Frobenstraße 1
© Aya Schamoni
Studios Frobenstraße 1
© Aya Schamoni
Studios Frobenstraße 1
© Aya Schamoni
Studios Frobenstraße 1
© Aya Schamoni
Studios Frobenstraße 1
© Aya Schamoni
Studios Frobenstraße 1
© Aya Schamoni
Studios Frobenstraße 1
© Aya Schamoni
Studios Frobenstraße 1
© Aya Schamoni


Studios Frobenstraße 1
1st Floor Plan
Studios Frobenstraße 1
2nd Floor Plan
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3rd Floor Plan
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4th Floor Plan
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5th Floor Plan
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Groundfloor Plan


Studios Frobenstraße 1
Elevation - South East
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Elevation - North East
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Elevation - South West
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Section


Studios Frobenstraße 1
Section
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Section


Studios Frobenstraße 1
Sketch - Library

Studios Frobenstraße 1
Sketch - Livingroom