Gemeinschaftshaus

Typology
Community
Project
Gemeinschaftshaus 001
Client
für KARUNA - A Future for Kids and Youngsters in Trouble Int. e.V.

year
2016
Location
Hobrechtsfelde, Brandenburg, Deutschland
- Utilization concept for a listed former community house.
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The hall of the former community house should be used as event venue again. But also it should offer a café for the inhabitants of Hobrechtsfelde and the cycling tourists that pass the settlement, as well as retail space for the agricultural products that are produced in Hobrechtsfelde. A suspended steel-frame supplies sockets and lightning, but also serves as carrier for the curtains with whom different spatial configurations can be adjusted.
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Each room of the former community house will be equipped with a new flexible supply module (electricity, water, etc.) onto which the inserted volumes can plug on.
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"KARUNA - A Future for Kids and Youngsters in Trouble Int. e.V." is a organization running various offers of youth welfare and constantly in search of space. With an step-by-step-strategy the listed former community house of Hobrechtsfelde should be appropriated by different utilizations of the organization. The actual building should thereby only provide an climatic cover, while various uses like sleeping berths, common rooms and office spaces should be "inserted" as independent volumes.
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Hall of the former community house in January 2016.
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Hobrechtsfeldes former community house is already vacant for a while. The windows on the ground floor were bricked-up to keep uninvited visitors away, the roof is partly covered with a foil-construction, as trust in its waterproofness doesn't seem to be too great. While the hall as heart of the complex seems to be in a quite okay shape, the rest of the building already shows clear signs of decay.
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Hobrechtsfelde got erected at the begining of the 20th century as a settlement for workers that took care of the septic drain fields in the north of Berlin that were set up there a couple of years earlier. It was named after James Hobrecht, author of the "Hobrecht-Plan", which was a development plan for Berlin as a million-sized city and brought the capital its first modern sewer system including septic drain fields all around the city. From the 1920s on Hobrechtsfelde was inhabitated by roughly 300 people. During GDR times it got transformed into a agricultural production cooperative (LPG). Nowadays most of the buildings of the settelement are owned by the Prenzlauer-Berg-based housing cooperative "Bremer Höhe."
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