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.
 

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.

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Brandlhuber, Emde, Burlon, Muck Petzet.
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Luise Angelmaier, Sarina Arnold, Pierre Alexandre Bardat, Tünde Bognar, Romina Falk, Ilaria Giacomini, Tobias Hönig, Korbinian Luderböck, Callum McGregor, Martha Michalski, Birgit Müller, Alexine Sammut, Eva Sievert Asmussen, Markus Rampl, Christian Rapp, Javiera Sanhueza, Naomi Steinhagen, Tareq Tamimi, Eugenio Thiella, Duy An Tran, Jacopo Vantini, Lukas Vögel, Marco Wagner, Wolfram Winter, Ksenija Zdesar, Natalia Zhukova
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3396.0 m²
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2014-2018
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Böttgerstraße 16, Berlin, Germany
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Brandlhuber+ is an architecture office dedicated to the idea of collaboration with other practices, disciplines, and individuals. It was founded by Arno Brandlhuber in 2006. Arno Brandlhuber works as an Architect and Urban Planner. He studied Architecture and Urbansim at the TU Darmstadt and the Accademia del Arte in Florence.

From 1992 on he initiated several project- and office partnerships. During this period numerous projects and publications were realized, including the projects Neanderthal Museum (Mettmann, 1996), Kölner Brett (Cologne, 2000), and Crystal (Copenhagen, 2006). In 2006, he founded Brandlhuber+ as an architecture office dedicated to the idea of collaboration with other practices, discplines, and individuals.

Expanding on the idea of collaboration, he started the ongoing practice of Brandlhuber+ Emde, Burlon with built projects such as Brunnenstrasse 9 (Berlin, 2009), the Antivilla (Krampnitz, 2014), and St. Agnes (Berlin, 2015); currently working on LoBe, a mixed use housing project in Berlin, and a private art collection. Furthermore he is collaborating with Muck Petzet, working on the Tacheles project; Christian Kerez & Muck Petzet working on the Spreestudios; Michalski&Wagner on projects in Sicily and Sam Chermayeff on projects in Berlin.

Arno Brandlhuber taught at several universities and colleges. From 2003 to 2017, he held the chair of architecture and urban research at the Academy of Fine Arts, Nuremberg and directed the nomadic masters program a42.org. In 2017 Arno Brandlhuber was named professor of architecture and design at the ETH Zurich, where he teaches and researches new methods of architectural production and representation in architecture and media, through the tool of TV.  He was a guest professor at several universities including TU Vienna, Harvard Graduate School of Design and others.

Besides his building practice he is researching the transition of spatial organization and production in German history, focusing specifically on the Berlin Republic. As part of this research he put on several exhibitions and publications including „Von der Stadt der Teile zur Stadt der Teilhabe“, „The Dialogic City: Berlin wird Berlin“ and others.  

In recent years Arno Brandlhuber’s practice has been dedicated to the idea of legislation in architecture as a main factor for the built environment. This mindset resulted in ongoing investigations, both built and theoretical, such as the ARCH+ issue titled Legislating Architecture and the 2016 film Legislating Architecture, made in collaboration with director and film maker Christopher Roth.
Together they formulated the second chapter The Property Drama which premiered at he 2017 Chicago Architecture Biennial. The film provoked a vivid political discussion resulting in an ARCH+ issue on the topic of property and land tenure, as well as an travelling-exhibition starting in November 2018 at the V-A-I.

His work was exhibited at the Venice Architecture Biennale in 2004, 2006, 2008, 2012 & 2016.
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Muck Petzet Architekten. Born in Munich, 1964. Philosophy Studies LMU Munich, 1983–1984. Architecture Studies TU Munich / HdK Berlin, 1985–1991. Architect at Herzog & de Meuron, Basel, 1991–1993. Office in Munich, 1993. Meier-Scupin & Petzet. Partnership with J.P. Meier-Scupin, 1993–2003.  MSP Meier-Scupin & Petzet, Mayr, Hehenberger. Partnership with J.P: Meier-Scupin, C.Mayr und J.Hehenberger, 2000–2001. Muck Petzet Architects, Munich, 2003. Muck Petzet und Partner Architekten. Partnership with Andreas Ferstl, 2012-2015. Commissioner General of the German Pavilion 2012, 13th International Architecture Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia. 2012. Professorship „Sustainable Design“, Università della Svizzera italiana, Accademia di architettura Mendrisio, 2014.

Teaching assignment at the Hochschule Liechtenstein, Vaduz, 2004-2005. Visiting professor at Technical University, Munich. Architecture as Resource, 2012-2013. Professorship „Sustainable Design“, Università della Svizzera italiana, Accademia di architettura Mendrisio, 2014. Board member of the german Plattenbauzentrum Leinefelde (dpzl), 2002. Board member of the German Architect Association (BDA) Munich / Upper Bavaria, 2003-2008. organisation of the BDA Award Bavaria, 1999. organisation of ′Architekturwoche A4, Zeitmaschine Architektur′ (architecture as time machine), Munich, 2008. Member of AK KOOP GDW/BDA/Deutscher Städtetag, 2011. Board member of Kunstverein Munich, 2011.
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Published on: February 13, 2019
Cite: "Terrassenhaus Berlin by Brandlhuber + Emde, Burlon + Muck Petzet " METALOCUS. Accessed
<https://www.metalocus.es/en/news/terrassenhaus-berlin-brandlhuber-emde-burlon-muck-petzet> ISSN 1139-6415
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