This new construction is primarily intended as a summer extension for an existing pre-fabricated wood house. Collecting the functions for which space was lacking in the main building, it is also built as a wood structure and planked on all sides with larch wood. On the ground floor, there is a live-in kitchen with a fireplace and a generous opening to the terrace, a workshop, and in between a small bathroom accessible from both sides. The compact stairway opens on the upper floors to the bedrooms of the older children and the office. The terrace space is expanded by partial removal of the sloping terrain and framed with a gabion.

Images: © ATELIER D ARCHITETTURA · Project: 2013 · Workphase HOAI: 1-4

The arrangement of small rooms within the semi-detached home is opened up as far as possible and expanded with three interventions visible from the outside. An overhang marks the entrance, surrounding the entire building together with the garage and the two-story annex. On the ground floor, the annex expands the living and dining area, opening it towards the garden. A terrace enhances the living and sleeping quarters on the upper floor. The studio found in the basement is provided with daylight by way of landscaped light shaft and can be accessed from the garden via a stairway. On the upper level, the living and sleeping areas with a small gallery were also provided with a skylight to supply light and air circulation. The enlarged dormer in the direction of the garden offers enough room for a small bathroom with a view.

Images: © Anja Belter · Realisation: 2011-2013 · Workphase HOAI: 1-4

As well as its first branch in Mitte, this FILETSTÜCK combines the sale of high quality meat and delicatessen for the use at home with its preparation on the premises to enjoy in the restaurant. As parts of an entity, sales area and restaurant a clearly defined by adequate materials and colours.

Cream coloured tiles along the walls and the counter identify the sales area and create a simple and elegant background for the presentation of the goods. In the restaurant, the wooden seating bench is accompanied by a warm green colour along the wall, a mirror opens up the space.

A carpet of ornamented tiles together with the open nature of the space toward the street combine both areas into one.

Images: © Alberto Ferrero · Realisation: 2011 · Workphase HOAI: 1-8 · WWW

The goal of this design was to recapture the elegance and materiality of the space and to house Architektenkammer Berlin (Berlin Chamber of Architects) fittingly both as representatives of the city’s architects and as a dynamic service provider with an eye to the future. The planned interventions serve the goal of promoting transparency, permeability, and communicative collaboration among employees and among the Architektenkammer, the membership, and office visitors.

The existing structures remain largely intact, so that that the existing fire protection and technical systems (ventilations, heating, electric wiring) are scarcely affected. All walls remain in place and are painted white, the carpet flooring is completely removed and replaced with linoleum (semi-gloss anthracite) for purposes of acoustic insulation.

The simple foyer is furnished with a reception area and the new cube of a kitchenette that can be used as a bar for events. The generous hallway before the offices 204–209 is structured with windows onto the individual spaces. These windows each correspond to a change of colors in the flooring (linoleum anthracite/gray), on the wall opposite filing elements fold towards the top. In the lower realm of the hallway, these elements become standing tables that separate the realm of the kitchenette from the hallway.

In the offices, the existing shelving systems are maintained and kept operable, including the integrated ventilation system, only individual segments are removed for “office views.” The visible surfaces of the shelving units are restored and painted white. The rooms are linked to another with doors and room-high office apertures along the window side. The somewhat raised utility conduit is retained and seems to flow from one room to the next by way of the fixed glazing. Mobile wall elements with a steel frame structure filled in with translucent acrylic wall components serve the purpose of optical spatial separation and indirect lighting.

The spaces in the front area are reserved for seminars, assemblies, and other events and can be used flexibly. A curtain for acoustic insulation makes possible several events at once.

All new furniture is made using OSB boards, sanded and varnished, all surfaces are realized in stainless steel. The clear and functional forms of the new furniture and elements in combination with the materials chosen reflect the original presence and elegance of the building, interpreting it anew and providing an appropriate setting for the Architektenkammer.

Images: © ATELIER D ARCHITETTURA · Concept: 2010

Within ist new concept developement, the Hotel 38 in Oranienburger Strasse was extended by a new reception area on the ground floor with bar, breakfast area and reception counter.

Guests are lead by light elements with U glass profile into the interior of the hotel, along the reception and bar to the spacious breakfast area in the courtyard. A sideboard serves as a means of information in the entry area merges into the reception counter and the bar and frames, again as a sideboard accompanied by a mirror band along the walls, the breakfast area. That space is divided into two parts by the light structure in which the guests can either sit on a long table or come together on smaller tables with connection to the courtyard to begin their day. The light green of the vertical light elements was combined with oak strip flooring on all horizontal surfaces. The way formed by the light structure is set against it in light grey.

The extensive chair collection was varnished in a warm white and thus given its diversity some integration.

Images: © Alberto Ferrero · Realisation: 2010 · Workphase HOAI: 1-8 · WWW

FILETSTÜCK combines the sale of high quality fresh meat and delicatessen for the use at home with the offer of preparation on the premisies to enjoy in the restaurant.

The green kitchen seems to be moved towards the dining and sales area, which is opened up through the spacious display windows onto the street. Through an integrated window it enables the customer to observe the preparation of food in the kitchen. In the dining area there is a carpet of green ornamented tiles which complements the white walls and the mainly red colours of the presented goods. Together with the clear outline of the interior and the integrated details of inventory, it creates an inviting atmosphere to stay and enjoy.

Images: © Alberto Ferrero · Realisation: 2009 · Workphase HOAI: 1-8 · WWW

Consulting and design for various private and public spaces at the Italian Embassy. An additional book shelving system defines the entrance area to the private apartment of the ambassador S.E. Antonio Puri Purini and his wife Rosanna Doná dalle Rose.

For the public entrance foyer, cachepots were designed with mosaic surfaces that could also be used as tables. The purist form of the cube echoes the structure of the flooring. Art objects are rearranged to better define the perception of the rooms. (Our thanks to the APPIANI company for their support).

Images: © ATELIER D ARCHITETTURA · Realisation: 2007 · Workphase HOAI: 1-8