Am Karlsbad RESIDENTIAL
BackProject type
Residential, Extension of a listed building
Status
Construction phase
Location
Berlin, Germany
Time
Ongoing
Client
Konzern Versicherungskammer
Competition
1st prize
Renderings
Graft
After winning a competition by the Feuersozietät Berlin Brandenburg, GRAFT has been commissioned to carry out the expansion and revitalization of its company headquarters in Berlin. The long-established company has been headquartered for around 90 years at Am Karlsbad 4-5 in Berlin – located to the south of the Landwehr Canal, opposite Potsdamer Platz and the Berlin State Library.
GRAFT will complete the representative perimeter block with the addition of a new-build ensemble. The site-specific architecture will reinterpret and reinforce the urban block structure and respectfully write a new chapter in the history of the existing listed building stock.
The new volumes will directly adjoin the current Feuersozietät building from 1936 and expand southwards as far as Bissingzeile, utilizing an area formerly designated as a parking lot. Through joining the historical building with the new volumes, a campus with internal pathways and four greened courtyards will be created. Each courtyard will have its own identity, with the large courtyard of the existing building forming the heart of the campus.
In the southwest, along Bissingzeile, the block perimeter is also completed. However, here the historical, meandering logic of the projecting and receding building volumes is adopted and further developed. This creates distinct addresses, entrances, and "front gardens" that maintain the scale of the residential street.
Project Partners
Georg Schmidthals, Wolfram Putz, Lars Krückeberg, Thomas Willemeit, Sven Fuchs
Project Lead
Maike Wienmeier (project director), Peter Buche, Achim Krayl, Matthias Rümmele, Jan Frechen, Alexander Moritz, Leon Seibert (assistant project lead), Sebastian Massmann (project lead existing), Michael Stoll (project lead existing)
Project Team
Marco Falzoni, Harpreet Kaur, Ivana Damjanovic, Leon Jakob Seibert, Foivos Chalkiopoulos, Karsten Littau, Marco Schacht, Mark Reschke, Dua Nur Ciftci, Tatiana Lebedeva, Filipa Leal de Carvalho, Elena Shepeleva, Bojan Zdravkovic, Onur Kemal Kösedağ, Daniel Finck, David Wehrmeister (BIM), Philippos Michael
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