A patchwork family from Munich wanted a design for a private house that allows enough space and privacy for both families, but also offers the possibility of interconnecting rooms and areas to inhabit the house as one unit. Uncoupled from a property, a house of gathering, retreat, and change was diagrammatically designed.
Location: Munich, Germany
Year: 2016
Client: Private
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Status: Settled
Product and design draft of an upscale business apartment for the project developers Grundkontor from Munich. In addition to the interior architectural concept and the creation of a product master, the brand name “my apart” was also developed. The business apartments “my apart” will be realized at several locations in Germany.
Location: Munich, Germany
Year: 2015 – 2016
Client: Grundkontor
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Status: Completed
Conversion of a listed former telegraph office and office building in Augsburg from the 1920’s into residential and commercial spaces. The project envisages different types of housing such as studio houses, city apartments, townhouses, and student apartments on a total of 12,500 m² of gross floor area. The parking spaces in the center of the property will be used as a communal green space.
Location: Augsburg, Germany
Year: 2014 –
Client: KLAUS Wohnbau
Size: 12,500 m²
Status: In progress
Construction of a new Campus Viva location in Berlin. Once again, the student apartments and community areas developed by CBA will be implemented.
Location: Berlin, Germany
Year: 2015 – 2017
Client: Grundkontor
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Status: Completed
The project plans the renovation and expansion of a terraced house in Munich. The new areas will additively be attached to the property. By staggering the additions, distance areas will be kept and the house’s original cubage remains recognizable. Furthermore, different surface textures in the facade mark the property and the new construction.
Location: Munich, Germany
Year: 2013 – 2014
Client: URBANWERK GmbH
Size: 275 m²
Status: Settled
Design study for a student apartment house in northern Munich. The comb-shaped building contains 408 apartments and a generous communal area.
Location: Munich, Germany
Year: 2013
Size: 14,000 m²
Status: Settled
The existing building from the year 1956 – in a prominent location across from the Rosenkranz church in Neubiberg – will be completely renovated and raised by another level. The gable will be turned by 90° towards the street, the cullis asymmetrically moved to maintain the setback. A new building volume will thereby be created while still incorporating the preservation-worthy building. The irregularly-structured window openings underline the monolithic, sculptural appearance of the structure.
Location: Neubiberg, Germany
Year: 2013 – 2014
Client: URBANWERK GmbH
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Status: Completed
The design envisages the reconstruction and expansion of a townhouse in Munich. The spatial expansion of a box on the ground floor generates a flowing room containing kitchen, dining area, and living space. The addition takes on the outer edges of the existing house, creating a flowing transition between the interior and exterior. Additionally, the large glass facade allows for a lot of light inside. Both of the top rooms receive a terrace on the room of the addition, also connecting these rooms to the outdoor area and visually enlarging them.
Location: Munich, Germany
Year: 2013-2014
Client: Private
Size: 100 m²
Status: Completed
Photos: Bernd Ducke
Reconstruction of a bungalow from 1969 in Munich-Gräfelfing. Among other interventions, the design plans to combine the kitchen with the dining and living area. This creates a long room which transversely pierces the building.
Location: Gräfelfing, Germany
Year: 2012
Client: Private
Size: 150 m²
Status: Completed
CBA was contracted to design the interior rooms as well as the facade of the student apartment house Campus Viva in Munich. The architectural interior concept that CBA had already developed for the apartment house in Bremen was also largely adopted here. The common areas present a flowing room divided by individual functions and accentuated by colors and materials. The apartments are functional, simple, and allow for individual design by the resident.
Location: Munich, Germany
Year: 2012
Client: Grundkontor AG
Status: Completed
The project includes furnishing 320 apartments and a large communal area. Campus Viva Bremen is the first of a row of student houses emerging in Bremen, Munich, and Heidelberg. The interior architecture of the units represents an efficient use of space while still maintaining a pleasant, friendly, and warm living atmosphere. The communal area is comprised of different functions such as a fitness area, washing room, and a communal kitchen.
Location: Bremen, Germany
Year: 2011 – 2012
Client: Grundkontor AG
Size: 11,000 m²
Status: Completed
Photos: zweimalig
The building is located in Frankfurt’s Westend district. The lower part of the apartment was renovated and expanded by the attic. A gallery opening for the internal staircase forms the connection between the upstairs and downstairs areas. This creates interesting views between the kitchen, dining area, and living room, visually extending the apartment. The large window front in the attic as well as a new loggia let a lot of light inside and open up the view of Frankfurt’s skyline.
Location: Frankfurt, Germany
Year: 2011 – 2012
Client: Private
Size: 140 m²
Status: Completed
Photos: zweimalig
The building is based on a clear design concept. The client, an enthusiastic mountain climber, wanted the broadest possible view of the Wendelstein mountain across from the building. Due to the impossibility of building on the upstream fields, the building will always offer an impressive view of the mountain chain from nearly all rooms. The back of the building is mainly closed off, only necessary windows perforate the facade.
The timber frame construction was covered by split larch shingles on the outside. The garage pushes into the main house as a concrete square. The entire southwest side is designed as a sliding glass facade. The living room is extended into the exterior area through the large, frameless sliding elements.
Location: Neubeuern, Germany
Year: 2010 – 2013
Client: Private
Size: 250 m²
Status: Completed
Award: Rosenheimer Holzbaupreis 2016
The concept reflects the heterogeneous, urban environment. The different roof orientations of the surrounding buildings are combined in a sculptural volume. Large facade openings on the ground floor underline the orientations of both house blocks southwards and westwards. The top floor programmatically divides the house into a private and an office area, connected via a bridge across the “light trench”.
Location: Dresden, Germany
Year: 2010
Client: Private
Size: 350 m²
Status: Settled
Design planning of three terraced houses in Tutzing near Starnberg. In addition to a share of the garden, every house features a terrace in the attic with a view of Lake Starnberg. The sliding elements of the facade give the house a constantly changing appearance.
Location: Tutzing, Germany
Year: 2010
Size: 740 m²
Status: Settled
The development of the existing building from 1960 in Cologne’s city center is based on the “house on house” concept. The new construction is placed on the property as a confident, contrasting element. The design of the facade – building plastered, expansion of sheet metal cladding – strengthens this impression. The added volume is irregularly perforated by large-scale window cuts and terraces. Another important aspect of the design is the view of the Cologne Cathedral. A large-scale window was integrated facing the street on the fourth floor, offering a wide view of the towers of the Cologne Cathedral and the urban environment. In the attic above this, a generous terrace was included, also allowing an impressive view of the city. This principle of openings is repeated on the courtyard-facing side. In this case with a view of the quiet inner courtyard.
Location: Cologne, Germany
Year of construction: 2007 – 2010
Client: Dr. Klaus Holtmann
Size: 350 m²
Status: Completed
Photos: zweimalig
CBA designed the extension of a detached house in Munich Grünwald for a young, local family. The already existing addition to the building is incorporated in its basic structure and extended southwards. A new flat roof replaces the gable roof and provides a clear contrast to the structure. This is enhanced by the dark facade cladding. The addition is initially intended as an independent rental living unit, but will later be connected to the areas of the main house.
Location: Munich, Germany
Year of construction: 2007
Client: Private
Size: 100 m²
Status: Settled
The expansion of a building was commissioned as part of the renovation of the property of a detached villa in Grünwald. This envisages an additional dining room with a kitchen on the top floor as well as a new en-suite bedroom on the ground floor. Two parties should be able to live separately in the building after completion of the building measures, divided into ground and top floor. The cubic form of the addition stands in conscious contrast to the 1960’s architectural language of the villa. A glass connecting corridor on both floors represents the necessary break between old and new.
Location: Munich, Germany
Year of construction: 2006
Client: Private
Size: 120 m²
Status: Settled