Out & About: Building Community Kurfürstenstrasse

Architectural Guided Tour through the building. The built community at Kurfürstenstrasse, located in Berlin Schöneberg, consists of 6 towers that overlap vertically and horizontally. The result is 25 interconnected units that each have a very high space and several lower spaces.

Building Community Kurfürstenstrasse by June14 Meyer-Grohbrügge & Chermayeff

The six towers that form the structure on a Berlin corner are an offset of the given two streets at a 104 degree angle and interlock with the urban space through projections and recesses. The house aims to offer new alternatives for cohabitation and to respond flexibly to individual needs and arrangements. The architecture does not prescribe sharing, but only enables it both internally and on an urban scale. While they vary in square meters, each unit consists of one double-high space passing through the building, with windows facing both the public street and the private courtyard. Except for bathrooms, there are no interior walls. Therefore, privacy or connection results from the placement of corners, levels, and sight-lines.
The house is built from a few robust elements, with attention paid to an economical and simple use of materials. The project includes a green roof, cross ventilation in every space and careful use of energy but the building is fundamentally a project made from people. The inhabitants, who followed the project from its inception brought their strengths and weaknesses to the project.

Guided tour: 20 June / 18:30 CET

Meeting point:
Kurfürstenstraße 142,
10785 Berlin

◾In collaboration with Johanna Meyer-Grohbrügge & Sam Chermayeff (architects)

Language: English

Register here: info@ticket-b.de

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