Berlin, Germany
Placed among many embassies and consular offices in central Berlin, Tchoban Voss Architects with interior architects Design Alchemists and landscape architects Nolte | Gehrke have designed the EMBASSY residential project for Adama Metropol Development with six individually designed apartment buildings.
EMBASSY has recently been awarded a 2022 International Architecture Award by The Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture and Design and The European Centre for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies.
The residential project, consisting of six buildings, was built on a 22,774 square-meter plot opposite Koellnischer Park.
The listed park in Berlin’s Mitte (Central) district, not far from the Spree River, dates back to a city fortification from the 17th century.
From the middle of the 18th century, it was dismantled piece by piece in favor of the expanding Prussian capital.
Today, numerous embassies and consular offices are located in the immediate vicinity and Alexanderplatz and the historic center around Gendarmenmarkt are just a few minutes away.
The residential ensemble fits harmoniously into the urban fabric in terms of scale and design and impresses with its varied architecture.
Differently designed street façades divide the development into six individual apartment buildings with their own unique character.
In addition, different parapet heights emphasize this independence.
Perforated façades made of natural stone and clinker bricks in different, discreetly natural colors alternate and pick up on the materiality and vibrant colors of the surrounding architecture typical of Berlin.
Some of the residential building façades have smooth or ribbed natural stone, while others are structured in reliefs of projections and recesses.
Wood-aluminium window systems with generous, floor-to-ceiling glass surfaces provide light-flooded rooms.
A total of 133 flats, some of them barrier-free, are distributed over six full floors and a stacked floor.
There are a total of four commercial units on the ground floor of the building complex, two in house A and two in house F.
The flat mix is balanced, with 1- to 5-room flats of up to 160 square meters in size.
The majority of the residential units are connected to the green surroundings via terraces or balconies.
The exits of the façade on the street side were designed as French windows.
The staggered floor has a roof terrace, and the flat roof above has been planted with greenery.
Individually designed building entrances create an address and serve to identify the buildings.
The two-story townhouses on the ground and first floors of houses C through E are accessible directly from the street via separate entrances.
In an underground garage, there are 76 parking spaces and 243 bicycle parking spaces have been included in the basement and outdoor facilities.
The inner courtyard was intensively landscaped and terraces were created in the courtyard for the ground-floor flats.
Project: EMBASSY
Architects: Tchoban Voss Architects BDA
Lead Designer: Sergei Tchoban
Project Manager: WasE-Bau GmbH
General Contractor: Adolf Lupp GmbH & Co. KG
Structural Engineers: Krampe-Beratende Ingenieure GmbH
Interior Architects: Design Alchemists
Landscape Architects: Nolte | Gehrke-Partnerschaft von Landschaftsarchitekten mbB
Client: ADAMA Metropol Development GmbH
Photographers: Roland Halbe
