Urban Densification Strategy Max-Eyth-Straße

Dortmund

The market development in Dortmund as an office location is stagnating and the commercial offers are essentially identical. We propose a strategy that restructures the large-scale property at Max-Eyth-Strasse 2 in a small-scale manner and thus activates it in an invigorating way.

Preserving qualities, creating diversity

The existing trees will nevertheless be largely retained and combined with a simple but sophisticated group of buildings of different typologies.

The design is based on the same scale and connected via a central access route, creating a family of buildings with a recognizable formal connection, while at the same time giving the individual buildings a high degree of independence with their own addresses.

Urban Densification Strategy

On Max-Eyth-Strasse, the buildings are set back 5 m from the edge of the sidewalk. Towards the property boundary in the east, we will preserve the existing trees, in particular the dense green backdrop, in order to protect the adjacent private gardens. This will create four decentralized addresses. All four are located on a central access route. In this way, densification takes place in the center of the group of buildings - at the edges, especially towards the neighboring residential area, the contours dissolve.

The size, storeys and arrangement of the buildings at the four addresses are designed as a variable system that can react to the actual space requirements.

The positioning of the future buildings ensures the necessary noise protection both inside the new ensemble and from the neighboring residential buildings.

Building typology And Floorplan Efficiency

The building typology is based on an efficient construction grid of 1.35 m. The floor plan dimensions allow adaptation for different conditions and uses.

The fit-out can be carried out in different materials according to the tenants' wishes: Plasterboard, wood, glass or composite. If required, individual buildings can be linked together on different levels.

The resulting office spaces are ventilated naturally as far as possible. Mechanical ventilation and air conditioning are available on request as optional extras; the space provision for this is taken into account. The ground floor zones of some buildings (variants 1 to 3) can be rented out as retail space.

Concrete Office Retail

Data

Completion

2017

Address

Max-Eyth-Straße 2
44141 Dortmund
Deutschland

Client

KORE GmbH
Frankfurt am Main

Urban Densification Study Nordhafenquartier

Berlin

The most urgent goal of the urban densification study for the Nordhafen quarter is to develop the site as part of a future living environment in the new Europacity. For us, Europaplatz is an urban campus - a meeting place for residents and everyone who works here.

In addition, the study discusses the overlapping of private and publicly accessible uses, in parts also within the building, as well as the possibilities of resource-saving measures for heating and cooling at this special location.

A new district emerges

The inner-city wasteland, which has so far been largely unused or only rudimentarily used, is set to become a lively district with a direct connection to Berlin's main railway station. Despite good connections to the transport network, the site must nevertheless be understood and thought of as an island, as it is separated from the surrounding districts by various spatial barriers. Extensive railway tracks prevent direct contact with Wedding, while the Spree Canal forms a natural border with Mitte. New bridge connections will counteract this peculiarity, but will not be able to eliminate it. This makes the new district's own urban identity all the more important. The newly created town square as the heart of the new quarter will become an address, the inner open spaces a private garden.

Construction and sustainability

The complexity and multitude of technical systems should be kept to a necessary minimum. To this end, the solid components are activated and circulated with cool night air so that the coolness stored at night naturally compensates for the internal heat loads that arise during the day. Earth ducts and - where possible - evaporative cooling from the Spree canal provide the necessary cold air. Circulation through the building is initiated by a “chimney” (stair tower), which is routed beyond the parapet edge of the building.

Concrete Glass Hybrid Infrastructure Mixed Office Public Retail Steel