Function: Residential building

Location: Johannisstrasse 3, Berlin, Germany

Total floor area: 4157 m2

Site Area: 1.025,25 m2

Building Volume: 9852,50 m3

Construction costs: 9.880.000 €

Invited competition: 2008, 1st Prize

Project date: 2008-2012

Completion: Spring 2012

J. MAYER H. Architects, Juergen Mayer H.

Project architect: Hans Schneider

Project team: Marcus Blum, Filipa Frois Almeida, Wilko Hoffmann

Competition team: Juergen Mayer H., Thorsten Blatter, Marcus Blum

Client: Euroboden Berlin GmbH, Munich

Architect on site: Architekturbuero Wiesler, Stuttgart

Structural engineer: EiSat GmbH, Berlin

Building service engineer: Ingenieurgesellschaft Striewisch mbH, Berlin

Building physics: Ingenieurbuero Santer Bauphysik, Duisburg

Fire security consultants: Fire Safety Consult, Berlin; KLW Ingenieure GmbH, Berlin

Project management: Thomas Quinten, Berlin

Photographers: Ludger Paffrath, Berlin and Patricia Parinejad, Berlin for Euroboden

Awards: Metallbaupreis, 1st Prize, 2013

Property development group Euroboden realized a unique residential building at Johannisstrasse in Mitte, Berlin‘s downtown district. J. MAYER H. Architects’ design for the building, which neighbors both Museum Island and Friedrichstrasse, reinterprets the classic Berliner residential building with its multi-unit structure and green interior courtyard. The sculptural design of the suspended slat fa?ade draws on the notion of landscape in the city, a quality visible in the graduated courtyard garden and the building‘s silhouette and layout. Plans for the ground floor facing the street also include a number of commercial spaces. The generously sized apartments will face south-west, opening themselves to a view of the calm, carefully designed courtyard garden. Spacious, breezy transitions to the outside create an open residential experience in the middle of the city that, thanks to the variable heights of the different building levels, also offers an interesting succession of rooms. The units’ varying floor plans and layouts indicate a number of housing options; condominiums are organized into townhouses with private gardens, classic apartments, or penthouses with a spectacular view of the old Friedrichstadt. The integrated design concept, which incorporates everything from fa?ade to stairwells, elevators to apartment interiors, promises a unique spatial and living experience with an eye to high design.