The White in Berlin Apartments, Osthafen

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The White in Berlin Stralauer Allee

68 Apartments and Underground Car Park in Germany design by nps tchoban voss architects

7 Sep 2016

The White Apartment Building

Architects: nps tchoban voss

Location: Stralauer Allee 5, 10245 Berlin, Germany

The White, Berlin Apartments

The White
image © Werner Huthmacher

The White in Berlin Apartments
image © Lev Chestakov

This seven-storey residential building is integrated into a row of commercial and office buildings located at the former east port (Osthafen) in Berlin. Its luminous white appearance – grounded and at the same time graceful – makes the volume resemble a steamer. As its leitmotif, every detail of the building relates to the form of the arc, which can be found in rounded outer and inner edges, in the ornamental lines of the façade or in the wave-like form of the balconies.

The White Stralauer Allee Flats The White

Stralauer Allee Flats

Berlin Stralauer Allee Flats
images © Werner Huthmacher

In addition to the almost continuous glazing the distinctive shapes of the balconies underline the horizontal structure of the façade with an integrated mineral thermal insulation system. Rounded angles combined with the interaction of the retracted and protruding parts give the building an highly plastic appearance. Moreover, the form of the balconies in each apartment provides a panoramic view over the river.

The White Berlin Stralauer Allee Apartments

Berlin Stralauer Allee Apartments The White
images © Werner Huthmacher

The trapezoid ground plan of this reinforced concrete cross-wall construction opens towards the street with a glazed atrium. The spacious entrance hall is wheel chair accessible and contains the staircase and the elevator. Circumferential galleries provide access to the apartments.

Berlin Stralauer Allee Apartment Building

The White
images © Werner Huthmacher

The sizes of the 68 two to four room apartment are varying from 48 to 125 square meters. Utility and storage rooms as well as 38 parking lots are located under the raised ground floor, additional car park is outside the building. Exterior areas have been designed as green borders and children’s playgrounds, thus contributing to the living quality for inhabitants as well as pedestrians.

The White

The White
images © Werner Huthmacher

Soft light shines through the multilayered transparent foil roof of the atrium. An object, perhaps a ship propeller at first sight, fixed on fine cables, floats in the middle of the space. “Samara” called Jovana Rusov her work, which consists of several large-scale maple tree wingnuts, reflecting the light in various angles. The artist emphasizes the building’s strong aura of freedom and calmness by choosing this archaic and associative language.

The White The White
images © Werner Huthmacher

The White Berlin – Building Information

Address: Stralauer Allee 5, 10245 Berlin
Client: Wulff Hanseatische Bauträger GmbH
GFA: 8.572 sqm
Completion: July 2016

Architect: Sergei Tchoban, nps tchoban voss
Project partner: Philipp Bauer
Project leader: Karsten Waldschmidt (design), Philipp Bauer (planning)
Team: Anissa Landgraf, Priska-Magdalena Schwalke
Structural Engineering: Otto Wulff Bauunternehmung
MEP Engineering: Ingenieurbüro Rainer Mai

The White
image ©Lev Chestakov

The White
image ©Werner Huthmacher

Photography: Werner Huthmacher and Lev Chestakov

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