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if you want to see some spaces and objects
if you want to text me
if you want to check some formalities
– tom :)
daydreams & nightshifts
Architectural Design, 2022 (proposal)
Are casual business trips still a future scenario? Isn‘t this something we should fade out? The terms “work” and “hotel” have been redefined in the last few years due to
changes in our global ensemble. Globalisation has been pushed further to digitalisation and virtual worlds. The design is a combination between theoretical scenarios and a very practical design approach to fulfil the requirements of an architectural competition.
It tries to break ordinary plans and concentrated on a sustainable social future. The design follows the idea of an inclusive building that will maintain value over time, not only
profit-wise, rather giving valuable spaces for people. A balance between private and common space? How much work do we need in the future? And how do we get rewarded for what we do? Hotels as well as offices usually work very binary. Soaked up in hyperfunctional, well planned and most profitable hotel room combinations. They constitute the theory of profit oriented design. Floor plans inside Hotels are comparable to the legroom in low-cost airlines to maximise the income per flight. It is almost an architectural design, compressing as many rooms as possible into a shell. The result? An ever and ever repeating typology - small rooms and long, dark corridors.
This proposal takes place in a wider context of Siemensstadt and substitutes the long term shift from a former monofunctional production site, the Schaltwerkshallen, towards a multi-scattered cultural district. A new standard hotel and office building for Siemensstadt would just be another magnet for exclusiveness. The idea is to include as many actors as possible at any time, while still providing a functional hotel and working area. The inner structure tries to tackle the notion of the classical hotel by mixing the programs and maximising the open zones and common space, therefore turning down the need for corridors. The building works as an extension and projection of the surrounding plaza. An invitation for local people, people with low requirements of stay as well as people wanting to book a simple hotel room. To provide different configurations, the building consists of three stacked structures which form a basic shell - then filled with complex program relations and actors‘ circulations.
Lifting up the building, gives back open space to the public. Space, which is heavily needed in an urban area to catalyse a long-term occupation. The proposal breaks the over-defined and linear vision and provides (un)-defined spaces. An area which has been monofunctional for decades, now transforming into a multifunctional space.
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Location
Berlin, Germany
Team
Jim König, Nick Fries, Tom Las Kohrs