Excerpt: Boxhagener Living, designed by Tchoban Voss Architekten, features a vibrant mixed-use quarter with residential, office, and retail spaces. The building blends into its urban surroundings with diverse façades—expressive towards the street and more restrained in the courtyard. The design integrates different materials and colors to enrich the architectural ensemble while maintaining a cohesive and dynamic urban character.
Project Description
[Text as submitted by architect] In Berlin-Friedrichshain, a lively and colourful residential quarter with mixed use was created with the participation of four architectural offices on a 26,000 square metre former commercial site. The self-contained Block B, located on Boxhagener Strasse, fits into an ensemble of six new building volumes, which are grouped around a generously laid out, publicly accessible garden. The block B is mixed use with residential areas (component BZ, Boxhagener Strasse 79A, Siegfried-Hirschmann-Park 6-9 in cooperation with Bonnani Architekten) and office, retail and practice areas (component BY, Boxhagener Strasse 79, 80, 80A), which corresponds to the metropolitan character of the urroundings.
Together with the office building BY, the residential block BZ encloses a green inner courtyard with private front garden areas. The block has 6 full floors each as well as a staggered floor with 73 residential units, two- to four-room apartments with a clear room height of approx. 2.70 m and a total living space of around 6,500 sqm.
The façade design was developed separately by four façade architects in order to achieve the greatest possible design variety on the entire area. TCHOBAN VOSS architects were responsible for Block BY and BZ. The facades (BZ) were executed with a thermal insulation composite system with a fine-grained plaster layer and different colouring to delimit the individual units within the block.
In comparison to the elaborately designed façade surfaces oriented towards the street and the city garden, the courtyard oriented façades are more restrained. There is also a gradation in the external façades of building block B: the office façade (BY) towards Boxhagener Strasse is expressive and striking, the colour-accentuated façades of the adjoining residential block BZ appear as background architecture in the structure.
The window parapets are fitted with aluminium window sills on the outside. All tructures exposed to the weather for terrace, balcony, window and stair railings were hot-dip galvanised and painted.
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