slender
hessische str. 5 in berlin mitte
a house for one family
(not on a green field, but on a narrow building in the middle
of a city)
Floor Area: 130 sqm
Balcony and Roof Garden: 70 sqm
Slender is a two storey maisonette apartment on a 19m long
and 5m wide ‚Seitenflugel’ (side wing) in Berlin-Mitte
Slender takes on the challenge to extract the maximum architectural
potential from the existing building. Long lines and open
views create generous space in a small area.
Slender is architecturally refined, elegant and playful in
its unusual material combinations – a white concrete
floor meets an orange glass box, and a salvaged chandelier
from East Germany.
Slender is a very personal idea of living, in which space
flows from one functional zone to the next, without doors
and walls to hinder it. Movement in this building is circular,
there are no dead ends.
Slender organises the daily routine linearly, from public
to private. The start and finish of which is the long cantilevered
sleeping ramp, suspended under an arched window with a view
to the stars.
project team
Britta Jürgens, Matthew Griffin, Stefan Bullerkotte,
Christoph Mayer
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