New Korallus District
Information: During employment as an architect at Architekten Venus GmbH previously (Blauraum architekten GmbH).
Project:
New development comprising four point buildings and a linear residential block with integrated commercial space and underground parking.
Location: Hamburg-Wilhelmsburg
Client:
CONSUS Einkaufs-GbR Korallusviertel
Key figures:
16,100 m² gross floor area
96 apartments
Neighborhood café
Underground parking garage with 51 parking spaces
Services:
Architectural design and planning, work phases 5
BIM planning
Project Context
The new buildings are located at the center of the neighborhood and are intended to form a link between the open building structures of the 1970s and the new developments. As an urban design accent along Thielenstraße, the front building’s corner defines the main entrance to the quarter.
Within the site, four residential buildings are arranged along the internal neighborhood path, positioned behind the street-facing Building F. These multi-story residential buildings form the core of the development and are conceived as the garden houses of the Korallus Quarter.
Urban design
The roof terraces are distributed across three floors and each is assigned to an individual apartment, providing private outdoor spaces for the residents.
The urban design concept is expressed architecturally through the creation of multi-level terraces. Central to the design are the high-quality communal spaces shaped by the architecture and the translation of functional requirements into an appropriate urban scale. This is achieved through terraced building volumes with harmonious proportions, composed of interlocking forms.
Façade and Concept
All sides of the buildings are treated equally, yet they are subtly articulated through variations in wall proportions, openings, and rhythmic patterns. By unifying and reducing the material palette, the design aims to create essentially homogeneous building volumes.
The façades are constructed with an external thermal insulation composite system (ETICS) finished with brick slips. The building levels are visually structured by continuous bands of red-tinted exposed concrete, while the windows are designed as full-height openings.