더 스퀘어3 프로젝트는 베를린시의 새로운 복합 개발 프로젝트로 어반스포츠의
허브를 목표로 3개의 타워로 구성된 건축환경을 제안한다.
라이프, 내츄럴, 스포츠, 3개의 주제를 다음과 같이 목표로 진행된다.
1. 라이프: 지역 주민들 뿐만 아니라 이지역을 방문하는 방문객들의 건강한 주거문화를
위한 다양한 도시기능을 제공 한다.
2. 내츄럴: 3개의 블록을 감싸는 그린캐릭터는 상업시설, 유치원 및 각종 서비스 시설을
포함하는 그린루프 시스템으로 디자인 되며 이 시스템을 통하여 각종 커뮤티니를 지원한다.
3. 스포츠: 올림픽 메달인 금,은,동을 테마로 하는 3개의 타워를 필두로 하는 스포츠관련 시설을
포디움 상부에 계획 한다.- 스포츠 캠페인을 위한 오피스, 클럽, 아파트먼트, 메디컬,
연구센터, 스포츠 교육시설 및 스포츠 호텔-
특히 저층부에는 스포츠 관련 쇼핑몰을 그린 플라자에 계획하여 상부의 스포츠 관련 시설을 통합한다.
그리고 여기에 접목된 친환경 설계는 건축물 전체에 자연채광, 자연환기 및
내부 에너지를 효율적으로 활용 할 수 있도록 한다.
reviewed by SJ
Three towers of gold, silver, and bronze and three diagonally shaped
city blocks make up THE: SQUARE³, a new mixed use development inspired
by sport that revitalises a unique urban quarter in Berlin. The project
is just nine minutes from Alexanderplatz, the very heart of Berlin, and
located near Europe’s largest urban nature reserve and a sports hot
spot.
Project: THE: SQUARE³
Location: Berlin, Germany
Size: land 62,000 sqm; 146,000 sqm gross floor space
Facilities: 210 childcare spaces, 1,000 apartments, 100,000 sqm for offices/retail/commercial.
One medical and research centre, sports hotel and hospitality, including a sports-oriented shopping mall. Social and education facilities, some of them specialised in sports education. Parking concept with multi-storey carparks.
Cost: € 450 million investment
Construction: due to start in 2014 and be completed in 2017
Status: Masterplan Zoning
Project Development and Management: Moritz Gruppe GmbH
Project Concept: Dirk Moritz / Moritz Gruppe GmbH
Architecture: LAVA (Design and Visualisation)
Sales / Marketing: Moritz Gruppe GmbH
Moritz Gruppe: We find potential in the most unexpected projects and spaces
For 20 years the department real estate development of Moritz Gruppe has specialised in developing extraordinary projects including a forgotten music hall theatre in Berlin Mitte, a former confectionary factory in Alt-Hohenschönhausen and an old transformer substation in a challenging back courtyard in Prenzlauer Berg. www.moritzgruppe.com
LAVA: Man, Nature and Technology
Chris Bosse, Tobias Wallisser and Alexander Rieck founded LAVA [Laboratory for Visionary Architecture] in 2007 as a network of creative minds with a research and design focus. LAVA combines digital workflow, nature’s principles and the latest digital fabrication technologies with the aim of achieving MORE WITH LESS: more (architecture) with less (material/energy/time/cost). www.l-a-v-a.net
Conceived by visionary developer Moritz Gruppe and designed by internationally acclaimed architects, LAVA, THE: SQUARE³ theme is Life, Nature, Sport:
1. LIFE: A multifunctional urban plan includes all the essentials for a high-quality and healthy urban existence for locals, workers and visitors, successfully answering the demands of a contemporary, quality lifestyle.
2. NATURE: Green characterises three blocks containing apartments, retail space, a kindergarten and social services. Residents will enjoy diagonally shaped spaces, green roof-scapes with cascading balconies, integrated garden courtyards, and overlook playing fields. Hanging plant-filled facades are articulated according to building orientation, offering an enhanced quality of living.
3. SPORT: Rising above a sport ‘podium’ are three towers of varying heights with Olympic themed metallic facades of gold, silver and bronze. Each volume is tapered to maximise sunlight, views and ventilation. Offices for sports companies and clubs, apartments, a medical and research centre, sports education facilities, a sports hotel (specifically for athletes) and a sports focused shopping mall at ground level, encircle a green piazza.
Sustainability is embedded in the project. Mixed use ensures social sustainability. Building shapes maximise daylight, reducing the need for artificial light and energy use. Facades integrate photo-voltaics as a means of regenerative energy production. Naturally ventilated spaces minimise mechanical ventilation. Rainwater is collected and reused.
The project is located in Alt-Hohenschönhausen, an area once known for its Stasi memorial and East German prefab apartments, and now ripe for revitalisation. Its proximity to the city centre, its location near several beautiful lakes and a large nature reserve, and its leisure and sporting facilities make it unique.
Utilisation concept
LIFE: apartments, offices, retail, social facilities
NATURE: sustainability and integrating the natural environment
SPORT: offices for sports clubs and companies, sports medical centre, sports hotel and hospitality for athletes, sports oriented shopping mall
Architecture
LIFE: spaces for community living
NATURE: roof gardens, hanging green facades and courtyards
SPORT: podium shaped skyscrapers
DESIGN SOURCES
Berlin
is a city with a long history and tradition. The design of a project in
an urban area characterised by different scales and typologies demands a
new approach. Rather than mimicking a particular style or historical
development, the project aims at an evolutionary development of these
typologies. The roofs of the city blocks become roof-scapes with
balconies cascading into the courtyards. The rectangular volumes of the
towers are diagonally cut creating more open views and perspectives.
SUSTAINABILITY
Rather
than a technological add-on, sustainability is embedded in the
project’s setup that optimises solar gains and the use of energy. A
careful balance of mixed use ensures social sustainability and use of
the buildings. The integration of large green areas for the courtyards
and the roof of the housing blocks and for the roof of the podium as
well as gardens in the towers make plants an integral part of the
architecture. Mixed use also provides the opportunity to combine heating
with the production of energy resulting in a highly efficient system.
All buildings maximise daylight, reducing the need for artificial light.
Spaces are, where possible, naturally ventilated minimising the need
for mechanical ventilation. Rainwater will be collected and reused. The
towers feature an innovative use of vertical green as well as surfaces
that integrate photo-voltaics as means of regenerative energy production
integrated seamlessly in the metallic facades.
ARCHITECTURAL CONTEXT
The
surrounding urban fabric of the site is diverse and fragmented at
present. The Sportsforum fields, some turn of the century buildings,
modern era housing blocks and a parking lot. The design responds by
reformulating existing typologies to adapt to the various scales,
relating to both 19th century and 20th century buildings as well as to
the open space and the urban streetscape. This results in the clustering
of the high-rise towers and in the landscaped articulation of the roofs
of the residential blocks. The new massing corresponds to the themes of
life – nature – sport creating boundaries and views between old and new
parts. It ties old and new together on many levels, programmatic as
well as urban and architecturally.
MIXED USE
The
mixed-use concept is perfectly adapted and related to the nearby
environment. It adds significant value to the quality of life and to
German sports and sports in general. It reflects the local centre of
excellence for high-performance sport, promotes local, national and
global sports, generating positive social, health and economic benefits
to the area. The architecture is forward looking and dynamic. It is less
an expression of traditional facade grids or materials but rather one
of the next stage of development in a dynamic, global city that respects
traditions but combines different stages of its history with new
possibilities.
MATERIALS
The
building structure is concrete and the tower cladding is metal to
achieve the shimmering effect related to the sports podium concept. The
facades have a metal structure with vertical green on the lower levels
to relate the buildings into the green park landscape of the
Sportsforum. The roofs of the apartment blocks are metal clad with a
light colour to reduce the effect of urban overheating.
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