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Archipuncture MUHRBECK ANDREAS MUHS ARTIST VILLAGE (2008) BAUGRUPPE ZUR BÖRSE (2010) Architect: Beyer-Schubert Architekten Architect: Müllers büro 1 Address: Alice-und-Hella-Hirsch-Ring 6 Address: Thaerstrasse 27 LEUCHTTURM (2009) Rummelsburg & Glasbläserallee Alt-Stralau Architect: Mohr+Winterer Architekten and new qualities 11 Address: Pappelallee 43 ANDREA KROTH TEN IN ONE (2005) Architect: Roedig Schop Architekten 16 Address: Anklamer Strasse 52 WERNER HUTHMACHER BÜRGERSTADT PAPPELALLEE BERND BORCHARDT (2009) STADTGRÜN GBR (2009 & 2011) E3 (2008) 12 Architect: Stefan Tebroke & Carlo Calderan Address: Pappelallee 19 – 20 Baugruppen are hot in Berlin. On billboards at many places Architect: Keinert Büsching Architekten Architect: Kaden Klingbeil Architekten in the city one can read how holes in the urban fabric are being 2 Address: Hoffmannstrasse 2-5-7 Alt Treptow 7 Address: Esmarchstrasse 3 filled with new residential blocks. Vincent Kompier takes us on a tour of these buildings of joint interest. WOHNETAGEN (2004) Architect: carpaneto.schöningh.architekten Address: Steinstrasse 26 – 28 BERLIN (DE) — TEXT: VINCENT KOMPIER, ILLUSTRATION: HARMEN VAN DER HORST 17 A Baugruppe is a group of people who jointly purchase Between 2002 and 2008, around 100 projects with without any sense of architecture were built. The revival WOHNEN AN DER MARIE (2007) a plot and, without an architect and developer, ar- a total of 1300 residences were built in Baugruppen. of Baugruppen in the last decade has a particularly Berlin Architect: Arnold und Galdisch Architekten ranges for its development. Because they carry out Currently, the construction cranes are working overtime origin. After the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, the euphoria 8 Address: Marienburger Strasse 40 many tasks themselves, they can save costs: the dif- to fill the last holes in Berlin. Although the share of Bau- for construction is tremendous. The reunited city, with ference can amount to around 900 euros per square gruppen relative to the total housing production appears 3.4 million inhabitants at that time, would grow to four ANDREA KROTH metre. The savings are invested in special architec- small, it shows that the demand for something other and perhaps five million people, believes the city council. ture, sustainability, or community facilities such as a than the standard quality of housing remains high. This Investors from around the world come to Berlin to build SC11 (2008) Architect: Zanderroth Architekten roof terrace, communal kitchen, guest room or sauna. is not entirely surprising in a city where, between 1973 housing. The main question: what direction should the Address: Schönholzer Strasse 11 ELKE STAMM WERNER HUTHMACHER 13 At present there are around 140 active Baugruppen. and 1989, over 250,000 uniform slab apartment blocks new urbanism take? Many top international architects AUGUSTSTRASSE 51 (2008) design new buildings: Sir Norman Foster (Reichstag), Arata WEITSICHT (2010) Architect: Grüntuch & Ernst Architekten Architect: Arnold und Gladisch Architekten 9 –11 Isozaki and Renzo Piano (Potsdamer Platz), Philip Johnson Address: Auguststrasse 51 Address: Scharnweberstrasse 39 18 (Friedrichstrasse) and Frank Gehry (Pariser Platz). Mean- 3 SIMON MENGES while, the city explodes in all directions after years of divi- sion that had led to Berlin’s almost medieval, citadel-like character. Outside Berlin, construction is cheaper and, for the Berliner, it is an attractive place to live. The division of the city made suburbanization impossible, but after the fall of the Wall it is well under way. 8 Around the year 2000, the economy collapses and 12 – 14 thus also the construction industry. Developers reverse 7 their steps and leave the half-finished city behind. The SIMON MENGES tax benefits for construction projects are stopped and 15 ZE5 (2010) subsidies for social housing eliminated. Architects are Architect: Zanderroth Architekten 16 ANDREA KROTH left without work. Since then, the city has seen a pe- 9 Address: Zelterstrasse 5 culiar housing market, because much is vacant; more RUSC (2007) 17 – 19 than 50,000 homes remain unoccupied. Despite that Architect: Zanderroth Architekten (or because) it is under pressure, the demand for quality 14 Address: Corner of Ruppiner and Schönholzer Strasse 6 and new forms of living remains. The concern is not taken on by traditional developers. They continue to think up WERNER HUTHMACHER 5 and build homes of maximum 80 m2 that lack sufficient outdoor space. MÜLLER STEFAN Architects have since taken matters into their own K20 (2008) 4 hands. Indeed, there are still enough places in the city to Architect: Roedig Schop Architekten build. In East Berlin, especially, are numerous empty lots 4 Address: Kreuziger Strasse 20 3 between the existing buildings that remained vacant after the Second World War – the DDR government found building in the suburbs more important than old build- ings in the city. This is not a new phenomenon in Germany; in towns 1 like Tubingen and Freiburg, Baugruppen already exist and comprise a part of the official urban development. In Berlin, 2 Baugruppen have a purely pragmatic reason: the lack JAN BITTER ANDREA KROTH WERNER HUTHMACHER ‘Baugruppen bring strikingly KLIMASOLARHAUS (2009) TRAINSPOTTING (2009) STRELITZER STRASSE (2007) LINIEN 23 (2011) innovative architecture Architect: Dittert & Reumschüssel Architect: Roedig Schop Architekten Architect: FAT KOEHL Architekten Architect: bco Architekten into the city.’ 5 Address: Bänschstrasse 10 10 Address: Greifenhagener Strasse 19 15 Address: Strelitzer Strasse 53 19 Address: Linienstrasse 23 58 A10 # 46 Tour Guide Tour Guide A10 # 46 59 (Archipuncture and new qualities) of the urban plan for Rummelsburg was nec- ing in wood, especially multiple floors, has an bamboo is processed. This gives the facade a of work for architectural firms, combined with essary because of the changing economic impact on fire safety. By disconnecting the kind of comforting quality, despite the hard a growing dissatisfaction in the architectural situation around 2000. In an international concrete staircase from the rest of the build- surface. The eleven apartments have interior/ variety of the city. Many Berlin architecture architecture workshop, several architects ing, Kaden Klingbeil reinterpreted the neces- exterior balconies. Notably, the housing block bureaus are picking up building for and upon developed the concept of the Berlin Terrace, sary fire safety regulations. Although one may is built adjacent to the former ‘death strip’ of the city once again. a 120 to 295 m2 house with three to five sto- look in vain for any wood on the facade – like the Berlin Wall. Baugruppen provide for architectural in- reys less than two metres wide, with garden nearly all housing projects in Berlin, it is plas- Zanderroth (14) also designed the build- tervention in the city, but on a small scale. and roof terrace. Elaboration of this con- tered – the structure is nearly 100% wooden ing opposite to Sc11. The complex spatial ur- They bring strikingly innovative architecture cept has led to the Artist Village: a couple of construction. The disconnected staircase al- ban situation – the north-east side of an urban to the city and they link living and working. friendly, black and white housing blocks with lows views into the communal garden. block – is turned into an intimate location. It In social terms, they are significant because huge atelier rooms of three to six metres How to develop a housing complex built belongs to the private owners of the building, the involvement of Baugruppen in neighbour- in height. There are several of these blocks against a blind wall which measures 64 metres but is made public. This allowed the designer hoods is great. Where in Hamburg municipal on both sides of the Rummelsburger See. long and 25 metres high? Arnold und Gladisch the opportunity to give the apartments views policy actively encourages Baugruppen, Ber- Don’t miss the (non-Baugruppe) block called Architekten (8) solves this tricky problem by on three sides. lin (still) stays on the sidelines. There is a cen- Fischzug, by Herman Hertzberger, at the end situating all living and sleeping rooms at the One might not suspect it, especially con- tral register of empty lots, but Berlin is with- of the street! outside facade. Staircases and service rooms sidering the amount of graffiti on the build- out special land prices for the city’s own lots, Crossing the bridge over the Spree, we are on the block’s interior. The block houses ings, but some streets in Berlin have a special in contrast to Hamburg. At present there are reach the part of Berlin called Treptow, an area 23 apartments and an office. Originally stem- monumental protection, for instance, Strelitzer more than 500 empty lots available in Berlin. in which the Berlin Wall was quite present, but ming from a fire regulation, the design uses Strasse (15). FAT KOEHL Architekten had to Remarkably, or perhaps not surprisingly, one also one with beautiful urban villas from the the in-between spaces for storing bikes and adapt to these conditions, solving a restric- aspect that characterizes many Baugruppen end of the 19th century. On this strange spot strollers. This project shows the real value of tion on balconies by creating ones that unfold is sustainability. This is not expressed visually Keinert Büsching Architekten (2) took their Baugruppen architects: they combine inter- when a homeowner opens the balcony door. It in the form of timber partitions or clay walls. chances and bought a former DDR building, esting design with ordinary needs from resi- seems as if the building is made of two parts, Although the architecture itself remains an demolished it and replaced it with modern ur- dents, such as suitable storage space. which is not the case, but creating a cut in the important aspect, sustainability is also high ban villas. Each villa houses eight four-room Just outside the S-Bahn Ring is the Zelter facade gives it a unique appearance while on a group’s wish list.