R fl x – Residential Building

Berlin, Germany

Photo © Jens Willebrand

Picture © Eike Becker

Drawing © Eike Becker

Photo © Jens Willebrand

Apartment Buildings

Architects: Eike Becker Architekten

Location: Kollwitzstraße 20, Berlin, Germany
Year: 2016
Client: Matthäus Werk Katholische Jüdische Wohnungsbau- und Siedlungsgesellschaft mbH
Auftragsart: Direktauftrag
Projektteam: Eike Becker_Architekten
Fachplaner: BBL Ingenieurbüro Bendel Bradke & Lang Bauwesen und Tragwerkplanung GmbH (Haustechnik), Goslinowski & Walzer GbR Ingenieurbüro (Fassade), HHP Hosser, Hass + Partner Ingenieurgesellschaft für Bauwesen und Brandschutz GmbH (Brandschutz), Büro Kiefer Garten-
Bruttogeschossfläche oberirdisch: 1736 qm
Bruttogeschossfläche unterirdisch: 559 qm
Bruttorauminhalt oberirdisch: 7771 kbm
Baukosten: 3,5 Mio. Euro

The building is aligned with a new building on its left and an old one on its right. The next building over stands on the corner of Metzer Strasse, a street that cuts through Senefelderplatz. Kollwitzstrasse forms the backbone of a neighborhood to the northeast of Berlin’s city center that has been particularly popular since the nineties.

The eight stories above ground level accommodate six apartments—some conceived as maisonettes, the rest as full-floor apartments—that range in size from roughly 120 to 180 square meters. The two top floors are situated above the eave line and have a penthouse-style design, with a broad balcony stretching across the front façade. Behind this building is a building to the rear with two additional apartments.

Via its alternation of horizontal and vertical lines, the front northwest-facing façade refers to the façade of the new building to the left and it also recalls the structure of a bookshelf. An underground garage has space for ten cars.