Berliner Haus, Breite Straße ← Works ← Henley Halebrown

Berliner Haus, Breite Straße Berlin, Germany 2024–2024

Breite Straße is on Berlin’s Spree Island. A Berliner Haus, this is a prototype for mixed-use in the city, a commercial building with shops at street level that offers a relatively informal atmosphere for dwelling and working in a mix of studio offices and apartments above. The design incorporates excavated archaeological remains preserved beneath the building. The formal street facade can be read as a wall or a trabeated structure of columns and beams into which three types of window are variously recessed, flush or projecting

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Breite Straße street façade model – a combination of re-entrant and projecting bay windows give the masonry façade depth
The formal Breite Straße façade (right) responds to the architectural history and heritage of the Spree Island. By comparison the garden elevation (left) is informal
Basement (left) & Ground floor plan (right). The building accommodates two commercial spaces -cafés or shops – at street level with gardens to the rear
The site is divided into four quadrants with the archaeological remains in the two right-hand quadrants and the building in the two upper quadrants adjoining the street
Cross section with garden (left) and street (right). The section is animated by the archaeology below and the pergola and garden to the rear
The south-facing garden façade – a brick frame with timber screens and benches - is shaded by the superimposition of a planted steel pergola serving both as circulation and balconies
1st-4th floor plan of studio offices (left) and 5th-6th floor plan of apartments (right). A single internal stair and lift core leads to the open-air pergola and in turn to the homes and offices
Long section: basement archaeology and services; ground floor cafés and shops; 1st-4th floor studio offices; 5th-6th floor apartments
Street façade - projecting and re-entrant bay windows admit more daylight and east morning light, provide for cross ventilation and open up longer diagonal views down the street
Sketch of the lower floors of the garden facade with its pergola, cloister and formal and informal gardens from which both building and ruins emerge

architects Henley Halebrown

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