Moos
Communal housing and co-working in former bathtub factory.
Berlin, Germany
The Bright Side
Cooperative housing tower with a unique hybrid concrete and timber structure.
This prototype building leverages the comparative advantages of both a concrete and prefabricated timber element system. This hybrid approach complements the best properties of each system. The efficiency of a robust 500-year concrete structure to manage primary loads avoids the need for large timber profiles and excessive lamination adhesives. Every third slab is made of concrete, with three-storey residential buildings made of prefabricated wooden elements inserted in between. These are not only structurally independent units, but also form social clusters within the anonymous tower typology. Unfortunately, we couldn’t convince the competition jury, but we love the idea so much that we simply had to visualise the building on a virtual building site.
Location
Bern, Switzerland
Status
Competition 2020
Client
Bern Railway Housing Cooperative
Team
Pascal Berger, Marc Schmit, He Mengjia
Collaboration with
TEN, Zurich / Belgrade
Structural engineer
Neven Kostic
Timber construction engineer
Renggli AG, Schötz
Visualisations
Artefactory LAB
Every third slab is made of concrete, with three-storey residential buildings made of prefabricated wooden elements inserted in between.
Every third slab is made of concrete, with three-storey residential buildings made of prefabricated wooden elements inserted in between.
Every third slab is made of concrete, with three-storey residential buildings made of prefabricated wooden elements inserted in between.
Every third slab is made of concrete, with three-storey residential buildings made of prefabricated wooden elements inserted in between.
Every third slab is made of concrete, with three-storey residential buildings made of prefabricated wooden elements inserted in between.
Every third slab is made of concrete, with three-storey residential buildings made of prefabricated wooden elements inserted in between.
Every third slab is made of concrete, with three-storey residential buildings made of prefabricated wooden elements inserted in between.
Every third slab is made of concrete, with three-storey residential buildings made of prefabricated wooden elements inserted in between.
Every third slab is made of concrete, with three-storey residential buildings made of prefabricated wooden elements inserted in between.
Every third slab is made of concrete, with three-storey residential buildings made of prefabricated wooden elements inserted in between.
Every third slab is made of concrete, with three-storey residential buildings made of prefabricated wooden elements inserted in between.
Every third slab is made of concrete, with three-storey residential buildings made of prefabricated wooden elements inserted in between.
Every third slab is made of concrete, with three-storey residential buildings made of prefabricated wooden elements inserted in between.
