Mittelstraße housing cooperative
The young upcoming finish architectural studio JKMM, internationally today maybe most known through the finish Exhibition pavilion at the Worldexpo in Shanghai 2010, was chosen to take part in a housing architecture competition in Berlin 2009. As a German partner for this project they chose the Architekt M.A. Robert Lassenius from Onion.
The building site is in the north parts of Berlin where the countryside slowly develop into a city. The client, a housing cooperative, was searching for a dwelling construction that would suite young families. Our concept bases on 2 rows of maisonette-appartements on top of each other. The lower apartments have their entrance at the ground floor, the once up on top from the side-aisle arcade in the third storey. This way each family is having a own garden or a sky terrace for private use. In the middle of the quarter , the four storey building shields a common playing yard off from the street. This form made it also possible to save the old nut-tree on the site, enabling one parking space for each apartment and keeping distance to the neighborly buildings close to the site boundaries. Small wooden constructions, like the atrium (containing tenants storage rooms) or the garbage and bicycles sheds offer additional optical shelter. The building has got a wooden frame construction being covered from a metal roofing and sun shades of recycling paper/plastic composite material.
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