Tiergarten triangle
The Tiergarten triangle (sometimes also called the Klingelhöfer triangle ) is an ensemble of buildings in the Tiergarten district of Berlin . It is bounded by the eponymous Klingelhöferstraße, the Stülerstraße and part of the Corneliusstraße with the banks of the Landwehr Canal . The street is named after the German SPD politician Gustav Klingelhöfer , who lived and worked in the city after 1945.
history
After an upscale residential area with city villas was built on this site at the beginning of the 19th century, the buildings suffered massive damage during World War II from air raids and combat operations . In preparation for various projects, the area was cleared of the remains of the building. However, since none of these plans (including an international trade center) had been implemented by 1989, the square remained as an urban wasteland . At times, the festival area of West Berlin was located here , where circuses and hype performances took place. Only after the German reunification did the city administration take care of new developments. As a result of an international urban planning competition in 1995, the Tiergarten triangle was rebuilt in accordance with the winning concept of the office community Machleidt + Partner, Walther Stepp and Klaus Schäfer in parceled block perimeter development around a public pocket park . The former Tiergarten embassy and villa area served as a model.
Development
The urban development transfers the architecture its dominant form. The building typology of the individual houses (by different architects see below) develops from the tradition of the Berlin Wilhelminian style development (front building, side wing, garden house) , spatially supplemented by alleys and lofty private gardens. A small public park in the middle, reminiscent of the post-war fairground, concludes the rhythm of narrow and wide spaces . The structure of closed and open alleys (six meters wide), given house proportions and materiality, the relationship between public and private and the mix of uses result in an image of urban density and context, similar to the Strade Nuove district in Genoa .
The architectural language of the building is consistently restrained, based on topics such as addressing and classic facade division . The Mexican Embassy (design: Teodoro de León and Francisco Serrano ), with its sculptural structure and elaborate facade relief, is placed in this context . The architecture translates the set of rules from house and courtyard into the motifs of a glazed hall, Japanese garden, garden on the piano nobile or cloister with arcades in the middle of individual building groups. The houses have very high storey heights (three to four meters) and the complex is freely accessible during the day despite the strong security requirements of individual users (other parties involved: Architects - Stepp, Berlin; Pysall, Stahrenberg & Partner, Berlin; Moore Ruble Yudell, Santa Monica , USA; Hilmer + Sattler, Munich; Petzinka, Pink & Partner, Düsseldorf; Faskel and Becker, Berlin; Weinmiller, Berlin; Büttner, Neumann, Braun, Berlin; Bauherr-Groth Gruppe, Berlin).
Outdoor facilities
The theme of (semi) public and private continues in the outdoor areas . The water side, the Corneliusstraße with shaped linden trees and sculptures, the urban paving of the streets contrasts with the seclusion of the private gardens and the lush green pocket park (Cornelia Müller, Jan Wehberg). This reveals a playful attitude towards the topic of the middle of the block as a meeting point for paths from different directions.
Residents
The area close to the Landwehr Canal lies with Lützowplatz and Rauchstrasse in the area of the IBA-Tiergarten , an urban-architectural experimental field from the 1980s. In addition to the federal office of the CDU , the Konrad-Adenauer-Haus , and its affiliated structures, the countries of Mexico , Malaysia , Malta and Luxembourg set up their diplomatic missions here. A Syrian agency has moved into the previously only existing villa on Rauchstrasse and the undeveloped (2008) neighboring property is owned by Yemen . In the northern part the Nordic countries erected a building that unites the embassies of all five countries ( Sweden , Norway , Finland , Denmark and Iceland ), called Nordic embassies . On the other side of Klingelhöferstraße is the Köbis triangle with the headquarters of the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung and the KPMG German headquarters .
Awards and statistics
In 2002, the project was recognized with the German Urban Development Award and a DIFA AWARD.
- Property size 30,000 m²
- Gross floor area (total) 55,200 m²
- 170 apartments
- Park 6,000 m²
- Construction started in 1998
Pocket park towards the Mexican embassy
Wind wing principle of the streets
Alley between the houses
Alley between the houses
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Coordinates: 52 ° 30 ′ 28 ″ N , 13 ° 21 ′ 2 ″ E