Architects: zanderroth architekten.
Location: Berlin, Germany.
Year: 2015.
Photographs: Simon Menges.
The flexible floor designs of the apartment complexes on Christburger Straße make them stand out. The apartments don’t have any load-bearing walls or supports, thus it’s possible to design the floor plan in multiple ways. The staircases were converted into fire escapes using a unique accessing mechanism that utilised continuous balconies on the back walls of the buildings. With their massive, exquisite fixed glass that blurs the line between inside and outside, the front sides of the buildings serve as exhibits for their architecture. The façade is not an extraterrestrial item; rather, it depicts a modern city building block.
The important zone of interaction between public and private areas can be made more permeable, weather-protected, and surfaced with street slabs thanks to a little depression in the entrance area. Under the direction of SmartHoming, the development project was managed as a joint building venture in which 27 parties (singles, couples, and families) cooperated to form a private firm that completed the construction project on its own accord.
