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Our first cohounsing projekt is to be developed in a quiet residential street in Berlin-Spandau. On the prominent corner lot, we are designing a residential building with 15 units in the KfW55 standard. The shape and location of the property, as well as planning regulations, ensure a special architecture across the street corner: Interlaced bay windows and balconies loosen up …
Four different educational institutions are joint spatially and thematically together in a new Bildungshaus. Manifold uses and functions require a flexible as clearly structured building concept.The building is conceived as a landscape, which allows both smooth transitions and clear separation of the different uses and exciting references from inside and outside. By dividing the building in topographic bands with incised …
Karl-Marx-Street is one of the important district centres of the city. A competition is held to improve the streets’ use and spatial qualities with 2D graphics and 3D sculptures. SPAR*K examines the street for its urban characteristics and qualities. Existing qualities, such as the sequential highlights along the street are being enhanced, athmospheres strengthened due to spatial transformation and the …
The competition aim is a barrier-free apartment and business building as passive house at the Hainhölzer Markt in Hannover, which functions for the quarter both as an entrance buildings as well as a prominent gate. SPAR*K proposes a volume that deviates to the street and orients itself to the square. The volume is broken with a large cutout, a green …
In the course of the horticultural show ‘Landesgartenschau 2018’, the competition searches for a concept for an innovative and sustainable new district of housing, business and recreation on the premises of the former Leighton Barracks in Würzburg. SPAR*K orient their concept closely to the Masterplan from 2010, simply switching the volumes to create more private gardens and park areas allocated …
A kindergarten institution invited SPAR*K to a competition for a new day-care centre design on a 6500 sqm site in Berlin, SPAR*K won the 3rd prize. The large outdoor area protected by the new volume from the public space and street, a small park is created which offers numerous playing possibilities for the kids. The building will be an ecological …
The city of Celle together with the investor GEDO invited SPAR*K to the call for proposals for the new inner city shopping mall called “Altstadt Galerie Celle”. The aim of the competition was to find a concept for a sensitive integration into the historical urban fabric. The predominant typology is timber frame houses with a variety of ornaments, colours, rhythms …
The aim of the competition was to achieve a preliminary design for a modification of the castle of Hartberg including two annexes, a Western and an Eastern part. The western part is integrated in the existing historic ensemble and fills-up the gap towards the wall. The new service rooms for the castle are situated here, as well as a new …
Ajka is a changing, young city with a clear distinction due to its heavy – industry past. It has a strong bond to its traditional retreat, the Somló hill. In the past, Ajkas inhabitants left the city in search for recreation, a healthy environment and distance from work. Thus, the city centre developed into a merely single-purpose area, to cater …
As a high-quality in-between space, the ‘Entwicklungsgebiet D’ lies adjacent to the historical urban fabric of Favoriten and the growing, contemporary urban area of the new main train station. As a mixed-use district, the area functions both as knot between the characteristic housing area in the South and the international staion area, and as a gradient between the outskirts and …
The Waldorf School Berlin Mitte resides in the protected complex of the former primary School Weinmeistersteraße. On the Northern side of the building, the school intends to erect a new building for after-school care and cafeteria. The SPAR*K design both reflects the rational grid façade of the existing building and distinguishes itself from it. Thereby the special use of the …
