Kiel Werftbahnstrasse

The entire competition area on Werftbahnstraße with the W8 creative center located there is characterized by small-scale development. GRAFT's design here envisages an unusual and novel fusion of future urban density at the so-called Kap Horn Tower.

An office and commercial block protecting the east is to shield the hotel and its terraces to the north and the apartments located to the south, as well as the public space connecting them, from Werftbahnstrasse. The plan envisages three construction phases. Thus, the design initially focuses on the commercial structure and the hotel complex in order to preserve W8 for the time being and gradually convert it to a new mixed-use development with residential units at a later stage. The apartments in three separate, raised structures, together with the landmark Kap Horn Tower, ultimately form a family of four proportionally related structures, from which the high-rise stands out as a solitaire, but still blends in.