WOHNPARK
Berlin, Germany | 2300 m² | 2015
The central design concept is a largely car-free residential park that places a strong emphasis on both private and communal open spaces and gardens. The distinctive design approach, featuring rows of buildings just three stories high, allows for a wide variety of unique and unconventional spatial configurations. The garden street forms the central space of the development’s interior. From here, all apartments are accessed either directly at ground level or indirectly via open staircases. The garden street is spacious enough to accommodate generous communal areas and landscaped green spaces. The intimate, peaceful, and sunny setting of the inner courtyard allows the individual apartments to open more extensively onto the outdoors than would typically be possible in central urban locations. Particularly during the summer months, this significantly extends the residents’ living spaces into the open air, whether onto a private garden, a terrace, or the garden street itself—a lively shared space with very little vehicle traffic.
ARCHITECTURE: Architekturcontext, Berlin | CONSTRUCTOR: Baugruppe B102 | PHOTOGRAPHY: © Hanns Joosten
