The new residential building on the corner of Glogauer Straße and Reichenberger Straße in Berlin-Kreuzberg is a building that blends harmoniously into the existing perimeter block development of the district and adds a green accent to it. The new building is located directly at a busy intersection, in a district where residential and commercial uses are located door to door. The site is a World War 2 construction gap that was long used as a private parking lot for neighboring businesses until construction began on this project. Restoration of the urban fabric on this site was long overdue. Out of the impulse of an ecological future and as part of a green agenda for the building, a vertical "Living Wall" was built on the Glogauer Street side, a planted façade that absorbs traffic pollution and noise from the adjacent streets. Rectangular balconies protrude directly from the green wall. The vertical green wall is made habitable through the balconies from the first to the fourth floor of Glogauer Street. One stands on the balconies virtually in the middle of the garden. Hardy plants were selected for the "Living Wall", which are watered and fertilized via a precisely controlled irrigation system. Twice a year, they are also given gardening care by a "cherry picker" from the street.
New Publications
Sarah Rivière, Hermann Schlimme (eds.): Berliner Architekt*innen. Oral History, Berlin: Technical University, 2021.
Students of the TU Berlin with Sarah Rivière, Hermann Schlimme: Building the Survival Lounge, i: design, Berlin: Technical University, 2020.
Tildem Kirtak, Sarah Rivière, Hermann Schlimme: Building the Survival Lounge, ii: build, Berlin: Technical University, 2021.
Article in the Berliner Morgenpost on 28.10.2021 featuring my Berlin office's ecological residential newbuild in Berlin-Kreuzberg.
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