Administrative Building
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- Volksgartenstraße , 50677 Cologne, Germany
- Year
- 2006
The site is attractive: The mainfront overlooking an inner-city park (Volksgarten). The existing building had the somewhat sober attitude of a an officebuilding of the 50th without much attention to the special situation. It consisted of two wings with seperate entrances. For zoning reasons we proposed to restructure the wing on the corner to maintain the commercial use and to replace the remaining wing by a new building with loft character. By this solution we could achieve both a higher density and a forward-looking concept of mixted use. To form an integrate whole the facades of the two buildings are uniform in material and structure. but are different in their attitude towards the surrounding. Inspite of opening the main facade for both buildings towards the park the New Loft’s appearence is more transparent and outlooking.