Wohnregal: Serial Construction Housing

FAR, Middle Density, Politics and economics, Project, Technology and fabrication, Urban Paradigms

Affordable Housing, Berlin, Circulation, Climate control, Collective housing, Comfortable environment, Construction, Germany, low cost, New urban lifestyles, Optimized construction, Prefabrication, Project, Semi-prefab concrete slabs, Structure

The “Wohnregal” is a six-story building in Berlin housing live/work ateliers. It was built using pre-cast concrete elements common in industrial warehouse construction: pillars, beams and TT-ceilings (ceiling elements including two downstand beams). Underlying the choice for this serial construction technique was the goal of bridging two apparently contradictory challenges facing the housing market in Berlin.