The façade design for the northern section of the new Tegel Quartier is part of the fundamental redesign of Gorkistraße in Berlin into a vital urban shopping street. The upgrade of a building from the 1970s is also a prototypical architectural task, especially with regard to the topic of sustainability. The northern section of the quarter is designed as an ensemble of individual addresses: a diverse architecture based on a common design idea. The design of the new "department store" is reminiscent of the legendary Karstadt store on Hermannplatz. The façade, designed by Max Dudler, was largely attached to the existing building fabric. Its lively relief and the two new high points capture the attention of passers-by. The contrast of materials and colours gives the ensemble rhythm into smaller sections based on the historical parcelling. The façade lives from the exciting repetition of the same motif in ever new, surprising execution. The cascading design of the natural stone façade impresses with its deep staggering. The natural stone frames of the shop windows conceal the mullion-transom construction, so that only the materials glass and stone are visible.
Text: MAX DUDLER
Photos: Stefan Müller for MAX DUDLER
Isometrics: Diana Adler in the seminar FACADE 4.0 at TUK
The preparatory work for this project publication was created as part of the building construction theory in the seminar FACADE 4.0 at the TUK through a student thesis by Diana Adler.
