New building of the Stiftung Unionhilfswerk Berlin in Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg completed on schedule
When you enter the administration building at Schwiebusser Straße, designed by Baumschlager Eberle Architekten, you are immediately overcome by a feeling of warmth. This circumstance is not only due to the difference in temperature to the cold, Berlin weather in January, but rather to the special architectural feature of the new five-story building: the central, building-high atrium with its geometrically offset floors floods the building with light. “[This] invites you to look up,” says BAL student trainee Marius Badek during a walk through the building. And it offers visitors and employees orientation and access to meeting rooms. The room-high glass partitions reinforce this impression and have several functions at once. They provide sufficient brightness in the corridors, have a fire protection function, and in some areas, they have a fall protection function effect.
For the builder, Stiftung Unionhilfswerk Berlin, it was important to create a sustainable meeting space. This also required a functional link to the “Am Kreuzberg” nursing home, which was achieved by linking the new building to the staircase of the existing building.
“Effectively, you can only build together, and that is what we were able to do in this project”, says our BAL project manager Fabian Trapp, who has been managing the property supervision of the construction project since October 2019. With this, he acknowledges his team on-site and all those involved in the project. And he also shows that the quintessence of a successful construction project lies above all in good teamwork.
