PRACTICE Housing projects, selection 

WEISESTRASSE, BERLIN – CONVERSION

The goal was a vibrantly mixed housing community with as many social backgrounds, generations, and forms of co-habitation as possible – able to set an example on how to update this predominant Berlin housing type. Individual apartments are re-designed to merge whenever possible and needed, allowing multiple unit sizes according to emerging needs. 

Client: Private  
HAHOH Architects

HOUSING COOPERATIVE PAPPELALLEE 25  

Tenants can decide on the layout and select between single-storey-flat or duplex. Only two load-bearing walls are determined. The 2nd entrance allows live-and-work, the later division of the flats or multi-generation living. The big balcony in the yard can be accessed from all rooms. The layout is to animate a free circulation: along the fassades, diagonally, in a circle.  

Clients: Private housing cooperative 
HAHOH Architects 

HOUSING COOPERATIVE SCHLIEMANNSTR.24 

Using the facades together with the dissolved middle wall as load-bearing system allows a high degree of flexibility, with multiple layouts being possible. This is an essential prerequisite for the diverse needs of the members of the housing cooperative. 

Clients: Private housing cooperative 
HAHOH Architects 

FLEXIBLE LOW-ENERGY HOUSE PROTOTYPE – Zell, Blackforest 

The scheme is designed to allow adaptable connections of all units. As a starting point each four flats has its own street entrance. One of the options is to connect the two ground floor appartments, or its left side with the lower, the right with the upper level. Following the client’s plan for the future also a multi-generationhouse is possible, extending over all three levels. 

Client: Private 
HAHOH Architects 

PARKQUARTIER HAMBURG FRIEDRICHSBERG 

An urban quarter was to be proposed with highly differentiated housing typologies for a changing urban society.  The focus is maintaining the park‘s landscape character as an essential quality for new urban housing. Ensembles of 3 volumes grouped around an open semi-private courtyard are proposed which are loosely woven into the fabric of the park. Even in the future the park will thus be read as an intact entity, without being segregated into isolated building constellations.  

Urban Design Competition, Client  Freie Hansestadt Hamburg. With Christian Stiller, with/for Fink Jocher Architects