Friedrichshain Urban Design and Architecture Project Berlin is the thirty-seven article on projects from practice. This project is an urban design and architecture project located on the east side of the city of Berlin. A few kilometers away from the city center with adjacent rail links and public transport routes. This facility makes this project in unique and attractive location for selling, purchase, and rent. This architectural and urban development follows the typical style of urban design in the city though the concept is new. The parameters of the buildings surround an internal open space that is connected to the main roads from openings through the block. See Figure 1, the site plan of the project from Google.
This project is a co-housing project a typical urban design and architecture project from the city of Berlin. Its unique location is adjacent to public open space and garden as well as to public link of transport to the city center gives it attraction to clients. The project encompasses a whole block in which only one building is left standing from the Second World War. The urban design and architecture include 8 buildings which were designed by a designated architecture firm with different themes. The corner building left from the Second World War was renovated to fit the context of the project. The urban design of the building shares common areas like the internal garden and open space connected to the streets from a common entry. Shared underground parking for all buildings and a shared roof terrace for all buildings tenants and clients use. The ground floor from the open entry will have access to the kindergarten, and office studios. See Figure 2, the 3d view of the urban design and architecture of the project block.
The 3d view illustrates the location of the existing building, where the architects have located the studios, the location of shops, and the location of the kindergarten.
Most of the 8 buildings, though designed by different firms, have considered several things. The common area of the internal block was designed to have an attractive space to sit and enjoy the time, and to ring light and fresh air to the buildings from the internal landscape, all internal spaces have a beautiful view of the landscape, and the buildings to have access to the internal landscape area from the street front. See Figure 3, building access, light, entries, and internal landscape area.
The underground parking is located in the Helmerdingstarbe and this is the only connection to the basement parking. The firm has considered common parking in terms of parking lots underneath all the buildings which makes the building design more complex when there is one entry point. The parking was designed to consider the security of the clients to prevent outsiders from entering it and having a rolling shutter under the client’s control upon use. From the main roads as well a consideration to have light access to the functions in the basement and the car park area by having strip windows from the ground level to allow light and fresh air to enter the parking area. See Figure 4, the light strip windows from the ground floor to the parking basement floor.
As shown in Figure 5 the internal open space inside the block appears in its simplicity in architecture design and a uniform architecture language to keep the project and the block unique and special look. Most of the buildings include balconies and strip windows as well as solid and void facades as an architectural style of treatment to the internal elevations. The internal façade materials concentrate on the idea of harmony of all the building’s architectural blocks as it is similar in color and texture. The internal landscape harmony of using natural materials in kid’s playgrounds like wood and sand. Creating different levels to separate the kid’s play from the internal sitting and walkways and paths. Another feature is the limited use of large-scale trees in the landscape design to prevent creating more shading as light is required for internal spaces and airflow to the basement as well. See Figure 5, the internal open space of the block and garden.
In the coming articles, I will go through the architectural design of some of these buildings individually to stand on their architectural design characteristics and architectural elements.
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