With the upcoming structural change due to the coal phase-out, a new perspective should open up for the people of Lusatia by creating and establishing new forms of work both in the city of Cottbus and the surrounding region. The energy transition gives this concern a new actuality.
Project name
Startblock B2 Regional Start-up Center Cottbus
Architecture firm
Bernd Huckriede, Jens Brinkmann, Ludwig Heimbach
Location
Siemens-Halske-Ring 2, Cottbus, Germany
Design team
Bernd Huckriede, Jens Brinkmann, Ludwig Heimbach
Collaborators
HVAC: Integral Projekt GmbH & Co KG. Electrical System and Elevator: BWE-lngenieurgesellschaft mbH. Building Energy and Acoustics Consultant: GWJ Ingenieurgesellschaft für Bauphysik GbR. Fire protection: Professor Pfeifer und Partner PartGmbB. Surveying: Strese and Rehs. Geotechnical engineering: Ingenieurbüro Reinfeld + Schön. Project Planning and Monitoring: CGG (Cottbuser Gesellschaft für Gebäudeerneuerung) with Schneider Wang Architekten
Landscape
Spiel.Raum.Planung
Structural engineer
Mathes Beratende Ingenieure GmbH
Typology
Commercial Office › Building
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Written by
Catherine Park
Part of a 1925 villa in the center of Bucharest that now hosts a group of offices from different creative industries, this 125 sqm (gross area) apartment was designated as a hub for meeting spaces. The brief was quite simple, yet elusive, which turned the whole process into a very organic and fluid one.
Architecture firm
Pianoterra
Location
Bucharest, Romania
Principal architect
Alina Vilcu
Design team
Alina Vilcu, Radu Dumencu, Mara Coman, Gabriel Ciobanu
Tools used
Allplan, SketchUp, V-ray, Adobe Photoshop
Typology
Commercial, Office
The work is based on a concept that breaks like a bone the entire rigid facade and the environment itself to make a gesture of rupture with respect to the existing buildings in the vicinity, it was respected to withdraw and be in line with others and that the height was also consistent with other buildings.
Project name
Broken Bone Building
Architecture firm
Veliz Arquitecto
Tools used
SketchUp, Lumion, Adobe Photoshop
Principal architect
Jorge Luis Veliz Quintana
Visualization
Veliz Arquitecto
Typology
Commercial Office
