Excerpt: Ackerstrasse 29, a housing project in a culturally diverse Mitte district of Berlin by Tchoban Voss Architekten, features three open façades and a penthouse. The square-edged, self-contained volume is emphasized by an elaborate façade design featuring beige bricks and a strongly graphical structure of white architectural concrete. The building’s windows reflect the neighborhood’s heterogeneous character, with different sizes and formats.
Project Description
[Text as submitted by architect] The new five-storey high residential building is part of a vivid and varied cultural area in Berlin’s Mitte district, impressively presenting itself with three open façades and a penthouse. The 1,000 square metre plot is adjacent to a green square dominated by a fountain with a stone sculpture by Ernst Wenck.
Square-edged but self-contained in shape the volume is emphasized by an elaborate façade design: beige bricks burnt in a circular kiln were chosen for the surface cladding together with a strongly graphical though irregular structure of massive elements of white architectural concrete. The windows in different sizes and upright as well as landscape formats are absorbing and reflecting the heterogeneous character of the neighbourhood.
The building comprises eight residential units with an area of between 70 and 190 square metres. The penthouse in the 290 square metres stacked storey is fully glazed and provides a circumjacent walk and a spacious terrace towards the south. Office and commercial spaces on the ground floor, the first floor as well as partly the basement ensure a good balance in terms of usage. In addition to commercial units there are ten parking lots in the basement.
The building is completed according to low energy standards. The units are furthermore provided with solar energy, as the entire roof area is equipped with a photovoltaic system. A geothermal system supplies the building with heating and air conditioning.
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