Stadtvillen Delbrückstrasse

The two man­sions built in col­lab­o­ra­tion with Georg Graetz are sit­u­ated in an up­scale res­i­den­tial area in Berlin char­ac­ter­ized by hand­some homes dat­ing from the late nine­teenth and early twen­ti­eth cen­turies. Their façades, del­i­cately ar­tic­u­lated and ren­dered in light-coloured stucco, were the touch­stone for the new de­sign. The en­trances of the nearly iden­ti­cal man­sions look north­east, fac­ing the street, while the ter­races and bal­conies look out over the gar­den south­west of the build­ings. The el­e­gantly curved re­cess in the mid­dle of the façade, em­pha­sized by gen­er­ous glaz­ing, pro­vides views of the beau­ti­fully de­signed stair­case. The al­ter­na­tion of pro­ject­ing and re­cessed sec­tions vi­su­ally struc­tures the build­ing and lends its fa­cades a pleas­ing bal­ance. The ver­ti­cal em­pha­sis of the French win­dows com­bines with the hor­i­zon­tal thrust of string courses on all storeys to form a har­mo­nious over­all im­pres­sion. Mul­lions and tran­soms, spe­cially de­signed columns on the front and back of the house, and the moulded cor­nice above the sec­ond storey com­plete a rich and de­tailed pic­ture.