Description of project by Brandlhuber + Emde, Burlon + Muck Petzet
The site faces onto the suburban railway track, offering a wide view towards the south. The building’s levels are staggered, creating a ziggurat-like shape with six metre deep terraces on each floor and a maximised semi-public space in the ground floor, which otherwise would have been sealed off.
Shifting the lower floors to the south creates a 7.50 metre deep covered sidewalk that functions as a semi-public plaza in front of the gallery space on the ground floor. The depth of the units vary from 26 metres at ground level to 11 metres at the highest level. In this sense, the program of the units is aligned with the floor depth and subsequently the amount of light.
Two external staircases at the back connect the different floors via the terraces, aiming for a more common and public use of the exterior spaces by the users, leading to a shared public roof space. Neither roof nor patios have extra drainage. Therefore, all surfaces are slightly tilted to drain the water like a cascade onto the garden. Built entirely in concrete, exterior and interior spaces are perceived alike, enabling the users to open their apartments through ceiling-high doors towards the terraces.
The fit-out standard follows the logic of indeterminacy: only the technical connections and sanitary facilities are pre-installed. The latter is part of the two concrete cores, which also house the elevators, reaching from the ground level to the roof top, as well as all technical services. The 5.7 metre stepped profile creates units of different sizes. Besides the gallery, a co-working space with meeting rooms, rentable offices, an artist’s residence and ateliers are in the building.
The fit-out standard follows the logic of indeterminacy: only the technical connections and sanitary facilities are pre-installed. The latter is part of the two concrete cores, which also house the elevators, reaching from the ground level to the roof top, as well as all technical services. The 5.7 metre stepped profile creates units of different sizes. Besides the gallery, a co-working space with meeting rooms, rentable offices, an artist’s residence and ateliers are in the building.
The Terrassenhaus Berlin, located in Berlin-Wedding, is a multi-use atelier and gallery building, designed by architecture firms, Brandlhuber + Emde, Burlon + Muck Petzet Architects, that try to answer the ongoing challenges of the market: rising property prices and construction costs increase the pressure on architects and builders, at the expense of social and spatial qualities. Rather than giving into this pressure, the project exchanges economic benefit for collective space.
The project was a private initiative to create an exhibition and studio building for private and public use, similar to the architects’ atelier and gallery building, Brunnenstrasse 9. After purchasing the former junkyard in Berlin-Wedding, the client approached the architects to develop the mixed-use building embedded in a heterogeneous neighborhood of commercial and residential blocks. The main focus of the client was on preserving the exterior space, made accessible to users and the neighborhood.
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Published on:
February 13, 2019
Cite: "Terrassenhaus Berlin by Brandlhuber + Emde, Burlon + Muck Petzet " METALOCUS.
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ISSN 1139-6415
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