LOVO Constructing / Christoph Wagner Architekten

LOVO Constructing / Christoph Wagner Architekten

Textual content description supplied by the architects. LOVO is a 6-story residential constructing targeted on the LGBTQ+ neighborhood, together with inhabitants with refugee background. Situated in Berlin’s Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg borough, it was designed and developed by the Berlin based mostly architects Christoph Wagner and Wenke Schladitz, along with Schwulenberatung Berlin, a company offering psychosocial counseling to homosexual, lesbian, bisexual, transsexual and intersex individuals. In 2014 Christoph Wagner and his accomplice, the artist Ulrich Vogl, discovered a plot subsequent to the very central Ostkreuz prepare station. When a big refugee inflow hit town in 2015, the couple felt the necessity to assist this inhabitants. Combining this want with their very own life expertise within the LGBTQ+ neighborhood, they partnered with Schwulenberatung Berlin, who introduced in new programmatic concepts and enter on methods to cope with the property.

The challenge’s fundamental intent was to create a way of life the place individuals would cohabit and work together in areas as randomly as in a metropolis’s neighborhood, as an alternative of conventional neighborhood fashions the place life tends to be restricted to the privateness of residences. Attributable to its progressive spatial configuration and social agenda, even earlier than opening its doorways in 2018, LOVO was introduced on the 2016 Venice Structure Biennale as a part of the German exhibition “Making Heimat. Germany Arrival Nation.” With 1200 m2 complete, 31 shared models and three maisonettes, the constructing program is organized in 6 flooring, evolving from outlets and a café the place metropolis and constructing dwellers mingle and community-oriented areas at floor degree to barrier-free assisted residing on the primary ground. The three flooring above home 14m2 personal rooms and customary areas, reminiscent of lounge, balconies, kitchen, loos and laundry. To guarantee LOVO’s inclusivity whereas additionally offering monetary assist for sustaining the constructing, the higher two ranges comprise rental duplex residences for anybody wishing to inhabit such numerous setting.

The East-West orientation unfolds in a robust interface with the road and the yard, which is activated by the bottom ground storefront and 200m lengthy balcony strips overlaying your complete size of the facades. A public passageway connects the sidewalk with the backyard at East, resulting in {a partially} screened staircase going through the encompassing city house. In a steady stream, this vertical circulation extends in the direction of communal loggias and kitchen one every ground, inviting dwellers to work together with one another. Atop the constructing three maisonettes are bordered at East by a spacious collective loggia, additionally having personal balconies going through each the road and the yard, assuring a direct relationship with the cityscape. Structured on concrete basis, load bearing partitions and slabs, the constructing exterior highlights large-format and light-weight metal mesh balustrades. Contrasting rosé and blue tones are blended with grey accents, imprinting a delightful environment, each inwards and outwards. Complementing these layers, pale pink blinds create a particular but harmonious mixture, which mirror the blended nature of LOVO.