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Modern multi-story building with large glass windows and wooden accents, surrounded by trees and people walking and cycling on a sunny day

Modern office meeting room with large wooden table, black swivel chairs, and floor-to-ceiling windows overlooking a green outdoor garden wall

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Project type

New Work, office, residential, new buildings, timber-concrete hybrid building

Status

In progress

Location

Berlin, Germany

Time

Ongoing

Size

8,200 m² (NRA)

Client

Trockland

Interior Renderings

Trockland

A twin project with a complementary mix of office and hospitality space is being developed in the immediate vicinity of Berlin's Ostkreuz: LYNX STAY and LYNX WORK. Planned as a timber hybrid building, the project combines today's requirements for modern working and living with sustainable architecture.

Viewed from its corners, the building’s regular rhythm of protruding bay windows forms a circumferential façade relief that gives the impression of a series of stacked, space-creating volumes, similar to traditional wooden joints.

Both buildings are designed as a hybrid wood structure over a basement and a first floor of reinforced concrete. Visible wooden surfaces also shape the interior spaces, which extend into the urban space through the numerous bay windows.

In addition to the flexibility and variability of its floor plans, LYNX’s façade extends from the inside to the outside, becoming a boundary that can be crossed. These protrusions are an ideal place for phone calls, video conferences, quick, informal meetings, or as break-out spaces, and act as a counterpoint to the spatial logic of the open-plan areas.

The façade thus evolves from a hard, impenetrable layer into a living building envelope.

Aerial view of Berlin showing the Spree River flowing through the city, numerous buildings, green spaces, and boats on a lake in the foreground under a partly cloudy sky.

The location offers a wide range of leisure and cultural activities in a green, lively neighborhood where people enjoy working and living. The infrastructure of the buildings is complemented by a café on the ground floor, spacious foyers and sunken courtyards which provide light to the lower floors. Roof terraces on both buildings also invite people to relax and enjoy community activities.

The Project was known under the name A LASKA till 2025.

Project Partners

Sven Fuchs, Lars Krückeberg, Wolfram Putz, Georg Schmidthals, Thomas Willemeit

Project Lead

Arne Wegner

Project Team

Anahita Dehlavi, Andrei-Friederich Atanasoaie, Raluca Ana Maria Constantin, Ana Galvez, Fabian Leiwe, Filipa Leal de Carvalho, Harpreet Kaur, Karsten Littau, Dorian Mandzukic, Nahuel Musso, Sven Bauer

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