Concrete Design Competition 2014/15 STRUCTURE
BUCHPREIS
Berlin, Germany
BRING LIFE TO THE SQUARE – BRING LIFE TO THE SURROUNDINGS
The intervention takes its program and characteristics from the context in which it inserts. The structure is also taken from the site – the generic grid from the garage under the square. A compact building is constructed above, leaving the ground floor free to be crossed and to make the accesses to the upper levels.
axonometric view of the context
ground floor plan and landscape concept
longitudinal section
Bringing density and people to the area, creating housing and improving the landscape will create the conditions for the commercial function to work. At the ground floor the possibilities to beneficiate from the park are infinitive with alternated zones of vegetation and concrete associated with trees, benches, a playground and a skating park. At the roof the neighbours have the possibility not only to profit from a terrace directly above their houses but also to share this space and interact with the others.
possible scenario for the diverse appropriation of the roof tops
axonometry of the flat types and their different configuration options