Christine Edmaier

Christine Edmaier (* 1961 in Stuttgart ) is a German architect . She is president of the Berlin Chamber of Architects .

Life

Christine Edmaier is a freelance architect and member of the Association of German Architects (BDA). She is a member of the Representative Assembly and the State Competition Committee of the Berlin Chamber of Architects. In 2003 Edmaier was appointed chairman of the BDA Landesverband Berlin. She then became Vice President of the Berlin Chamber of Architects in 2009. Edmaier has been President of the Berlin Chamber of Architects since 2013.

Edmaier studied architecture from 1981 to 1987 at the Berlin University of the Arts , today's UdK. During her studies she spent a year in Italy at the Università Iuav di Venezia (IUAV). After completing her studies, she first set up an architecture office with Christian Kennerknecht. As early as 1989 she received various teaching assignments at the Technical University of Berlin. Here she worked in the field of landscape planning and the field of urban and regional planning. She also did lectureships in the Ruhr area. Edmaier taught urban planning and urban design as a visiting professor at the Berlin-Weißensee School of Art from 1996 to 1997.

In 1992 Edmaier founded her office for architecture and urban development in Berlin. Your work has received several awards. For example, she received the BDA Hamburg award and the galvanizing award for the Feste Burg community center . Edmaier has been a partner of SEK Architects - Säum Edmaier Krischan Part mbB since 2015 . The three architects Dortje Säum, Christine Edmaier and Sabine Krischan work in cooperation on competitions and construction contracts.

Work (selection)

Small canal island

In the 1990s, a new building area for 20,000 residents was built in the Allermöhe district of Hamburg: the Neuallermöhe West district. In 1994 Edmaier won first prize in the urban planning competition for two of her contributions. It was also successful in the implementation competition: According to its designs, 30 terraced houses, the Small Fleetinsel project , were implemented and completed by 1998. These are based on the watercourses in Allermöhe, so-called canals. Natural or artificially created drainage ditches in the Elbe marshland, i. H. the natural flood plain of the Elbe. The project was awarded the BDA Prize Hamburg (3rd place).

Fixed castle

In 1995, the community work began in a construction trailer in the Neu-Allermöhe-West development area in Hamburg. In 1996 Christine Edmaier won first prize in the competition for an ecumenical community center. The Feste Burg project was implemented between 1999 and 2001. It is characterized by its location in the green center of the new development area on a lake. The cladding of the building with massive rocks from the landmark is striking. The community center was honored with the BDA Prize Hamburg (2nd place) and the galvanizer prize.

On the game trail

The apartment building on Wildpfad in the Berlin-Grunewald district is a four-storey residential building with seven residential units, which was completed in 2009. The facade on the street side is characterized by the continuous railing of the terraces made of greenish glass. In contrast to this is the massive chimney made of sand-lime brick - due to its green color, it echoes the color of the railings. The house is characterized by its generosity - high windows, spacious terraces, representative staircase. However, it is heated exclusively by a heat pump and geothermal probe.

Presidency

As President of the Berlin Chamber of Architects, Christine Edmaier has a decisive influence on the architectural discourse in Berlin's public.

She advocates a pluralistic appearance of architecture in Berlin - and with it an improved competitive system. This can be seen in her criticism of the monotonous design around the main train station and the planning of the Europacity there, which she has repeatedly expressed in the media : The fact that this is very much oriented towards the Berlin perimeter block development "restricts the creative leeway and hardly leaves more complex designs with innovative access models and high density too, "said Edmaier in an interview with Tagesspiegel. She also sees the award of contracts to large investors as problematic. "A little more detail and diversity of the actors would certainly have been better in this place, (...) today one would probably plan it differently, more densely and socially more balanced."

Another focus of Edmaier's presidency is the good representation of the Chamber of Architects and the profession in public. For example, the organization of the annual " Architecture Day " by the Chamber of Architects, on whose advisory board Edmaier sits, should be mentioned. Edmaier is also a member of the "Communication and Media" working group of the Chamber of Architects. Among other things, this promotes "high-quality planning and architectural services in society, especially at institutions, ministries, foundations and associations" and works on the "development of concepts for architecture communication".

As President of the Chamber of Architects, Edmaier works with the Berlin Senate Administration. As an expert, for example, she was a member of the "Technical Working Group on School Room Quality". This was set up in 2016 by the Berlin Senator for Education Sandra Scheeres and Senator for Urban Development Katrin Lompscher . Due to the increasing number of pupils, around 30 new schools will be needed in Berlin over the next few years. The result report of the working group is a plea for modern school building as a place of learning and living. Edmaier also advocates open competition when building new schools, so that smaller offices in particular can also participate. This is the only way to use the "potential of the profession to find urban planning optimized, economical and future-oriented concepts", says Edmaier.

Prices (selection)

Competitions, some of which Christine Edmaier won in cooperation, include:

• 1994: New building district Hamburg-Neuallermöhe, Kleine Fleetinsel and Stadtkante, 1st prize in the urban planning competition
• 1996: Kleine Fleetinsel, 1st prize in the implementation competition and BDA Prize Hamburg, 3rd prize
• 1996: Community Center FesteBurg: Galvanizing Prize, BDA Prize Hamburg (2nd prize) and choice for Building of the Year (public building) by the Hamburg Architects and Engineers Association
• 2001: Sports building in Blankensteinpark, 1st prize
• 2002: NINO site in Nordhorn, 1st prize
• 2002: ZOB central bus station in Munich, purchase
• 2003: Government location Henning-von-Treskow-Straße in Potsdam, 2nd prize
• 2005: Connection to the Ringcenter Nordhorn, 1st prize (see completed projects )
• 2009: Eastern Luisenblock in Berlin-Mitte, purchase
• 2012: Living at Volkspark Helmbrechts, urban planning competition, 2nd prize
• 2011: newPark in Datteln, 1st prize
• 2012: Living in the Speicherstadt Hamburg, recognition
• 2017: Extension of the district office in Görlitz, 1st prize (with SEK architects)

Memberships

• Association of German Architects
• Board member of the Berlin Chamber of Architects
• Representatives meeting of the Berlin Chamber of Architects
• State competition committee of the Berlin Chamber of Architects
• Federal Foundation for Building Culture

Web links

• SEK architects
• Homepage Christine Edmaier
• Board member of the Berlin Chamber of Architects
• Literature by and about Christine Edmaier in the bibliographic database WorldCat

Individual evidence

1. ^ BDA Berlin: Edmaier again president of the Chamber of Architects. Retrieved November 10, 2018 . 
2. ^ C. Edmaier: Biography. Retrieved November 10, 2018 . 
3. ^ C. Edmaier: Hamburg Neuallermöhe West. Retrieved November 12, 2018 . 
4. ↑ Festeburg. Bergedorf Marschen community, accessed on November 12, 2018 . 
5. ^ C. Edmaier: Fixed castle. Retrieved November 12, 2018 . 
6. ↑ Generous and energy conscious. In: Cube magazine. Retrieved November 12, 2018 . 
7. ↑ Reinhart Bünger: Housing construction is a 'black bread task'. In: Der Tagesspiegel Online. June 19, 2017. Retrieved November 16, 2018 . 
8. ↑ Uwe Rada: There is complaint, partly rightly. In: TAZ online. June 26, 2015, accessed November 16, 2018 . 
9. ↑ We need buildings in which something else happens. Interview in the evening show on July 14, 2018. In: RBB24. July 14, 2018, accessed November 16, 2018 . 
10. ↑ Board of Directors. Berlin Chamber of Architects, accessed on November 16, 2018 . 
11. ↑ Committees and working groups. Berlin Chamber of Architects, accessed on November 16, 2018 . 
12. ↑ Courage for school room quality. In: MD magazine. August 8, 2018, accessed November 16, 2018 . 
13. ↑ Technical working group for school room quality presents results report for a modern school. Senate Department for Education, Youth and Family Berlin, accessed on February 10, 2017 . 
14. ^ Senate Department for Education, Youth and Family Berlin (Ed.): Berlin builds education. The recommendations of the specialist working group for school room quality. Volume 1: Report. Berlin 2017, p. 7 .