Katharinenstrasse

The side streets off of Kur­fürs­ten­damm of­fer great po­ten­tial for res­i­den­tial de­vel­op­ments, as was dis­cov­ered in the course of Berlin’s build­ing boom in the early 2000s. The site on Kathari­nen­straße is flanked by low apart­ment build­ings dat­ing from the post­war era. A large play­ground to the west that can­not be built upon promises most of the dwellings in the new build­ing an un­ob­structed view. Al­though the T-shaped plan cre­ates a high ar­chi­tec­tural den­sity on the site it­self, the sur­round­ing ur­ban fab­ric is suf­fi­ciently open to en­sure all of the apart­ments have am­ple day­light. The new build­ing will ac­com­mo­date fifty res­i­den­tial units with spa­cious rooms built on a range of dif­fer­ent plans. The street fa­cade of­fers a mod­ern in­ter­pre­ta­tion of the tra­di­tional style of the area’s spa­cious ten­e­ments, us­ing stucco and brick, with stone for the build­ing’s base.