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The participants' programme followed its own axis. They arranged their own transport, accommodation and programme. Berlin is spectacular and you definitely cannot see everything in one weekend. Saturday afternoon was dedicated to a common program - a walk in the eastern part of Berlin, which lasted less than two hours. The meeting together with the teacher took place on Saturday 18 November afternoon in front of the Aedes Architekturforum. After a short talk, the steps from there led to the nearby Tchoban Foundation - Museum for Architectural Drawing on Christinenstraße.
The building of the Museum for Architectural Drawing was designed by the architectural firm SPeeCH Tchoban & Kuznetsov and completed in 2013. The museum provides a home for the internationally renowned Tchoban Foundation collection as well as temporary exhibits from leading cultural institutions from around the world. The Tchoban Foundation was founded in 2009 by Sergei Tchoban, an avid illustrator and collector of architectural drawings. The foundation's stated goal is to bring the fantastic and emotionally charged worlds of architectural drawing to the general public primarily through exhibitions. The museum building is located at the western entrance to the Pfefferberg from Christinenstraße, on the site of a former brewery between Schönhauser Allee and Teutoburger Platz in Prenzlauer Berg. The museum presents itself as a four-storey massive concrete building with a glass tiered floor. The position of the four floors resembles a loose stack of blocks or boxes, which are stacked alternately to form a cantilever at different angles on the street and courtyard sides. The enclosed façade is decorated with greatly enlarged fragments of architectural sketches in relief. The perforations and the colour of the exposed concrete are intended to refer to the use of the building as an exhibition space for architectural drawings. The building contains an entrance area, two exhibition rooms, a museum depository and a conference room. Through a large, deeply grooved wooden door, we were able to peer inside the museum's foyer, which has large-scale hand-carved wall panels.
On Brunnenstraße we had a glimpse of the gallery building and architect Brandlhuber's own studio. He worked on the building together with Emde and Burlon in 2007-10. The street façade suggests a radical architectural solution that is not usual for the location, yet it does not in any way disturb the surrounding buildings, but rather complements them and fills in the former gap. The façade consists of polycarbonate panels with large glass panels that are not symmetrically placed. The height of the concrete building corresponds to the surrounding buildings. Through the open ground floor we reached the courtyard, which is dominated by a staircase made of raw concrete with a relatively low handrail. The staircase is freely accessible from the courtyard and so we had the opportunity to see the terraces of the individual floors. The rear façade of the building is largely glazed.
While walking along Auguststraße, we also stopped for a while at the Baugruppe Auguststraße building, which houses the architectural studio Grüntuch Ernst Architekten. It's located in a pleasant neighborhood of Berlin, right across from Gipsdreieck Park. In addition to offices, the building also houses residential or exhibition space. An interesting feature is the arrangement of the apartments, providing the spatial qualities and comfort of urban living, in a spatial jigsaw, which is also reflected in the façade. Wide structural strips dividing the facade, multi-storey loggias and large glass areas give the building an original look. There is also a small courtyard at the rear, accessible to all the building's occupants.
Among the architectural gems, we discovered another fascinating structure - the Cafe Bravo, located in the courtyard of the Berlin Institute of Contemporary Art. Rustic paving stones and picturesque slatted fences surrounding old trees added to the atmosphere of the place. Designed by Dan Graham and realized with architect Johann Nalbach, the building opened in September 1999. At times the pavilion appears transparent, at others like a mirror. A duo of mirrored glass cubes reflect the surrounding classical architecture, creating an ever-changing spectacle. It's a great blend of the past with ultra-modern design. To end our walk, we passed through the largest inner city development in Berlin at Tacheles. The more than 25,000 square meters of wasteland around the so-called Kunsthaus Tacheles has become a gigantic construction site.
Ten buildings with offices and apartment buildings are grouped around four courtyards that are assigned to the areas of housing, commerce, culture and work. Restaurants and retail businesses are intended to enliven the district.
The historic part of Tacheles has been preserved - along with the graffiti. And the L-shape of the passage from Friedrichstraße to Oranienburger Straße follows the historical model of the pre-war period.
A large square, lined with restaurants and shops, opens onto Oranienburger Straße. The whole district was also intended to be green and airy. The roofs are also green and instead of roofing as in the historic arcades, green bridges at great height connect the two sides of the courtyard on the left and right.
Bc. Adéla Juřičková
Bc. Tamara Bartalová
Bc. Vanessa Rontová
Bc. Sára Tomková
Martina Hešlarová
Stepan Chopyk
A walk through autumn Berlin in search of contemporary architecture
In mid-November this year, students of the Bachelor's and Master's degree programmes of the FA BUT had a long weekend visiting Berlin. As part of the elective course Architecture of the XXI century, they set out to discover the contemporary architecture of the German capital. Each student's task in the course is to choose a building that was built after 2000, visit an ongoing exhibition or lecture and then write an article. A large part of the enrolled students decided to visit Berlin, where there is always something going on in the field of architecture and there is therefore something to discover.The participants' programme followed its own axis. They arranged their own transport, accommodation and programme. Berlin is spectacular and you definitely cannot see everything in one weekend. Saturday afternoon was dedicated to a common program - a walk in the eastern part of Berlin, which lasted less than two hours. The meeting together with the teacher took place on Saturday 18 November afternoon in front of the Aedes Architekturforum. After a short talk, the steps from there led to the nearby Tchoban Foundation - Museum for Architectural Drawing on Christinenstraße.
The building of the Museum for Architectural Drawing was designed by the architectural firm SPeeCH Tchoban & Kuznetsov and completed in 2013. The museum provides a home for the internationally renowned Tchoban Foundation collection as well as temporary exhibits from leading cultural institutions from around the world. The Tchoban Foundation was founded in 2009 by Sergei Tchoban, an avid illustrator and collector of architectural drawings. The foundation's stated goal is to bring the fantastic and emotionally charged worlds of architectural drawing to the general public primarily through exhibitions. The museum building is located at the western entrance to the Pfefferberg from Christinenstraße, on the site of a former brewery between Schönhauser Allee and Teutoburger Platz in Prenzlauer Berg. The museum presents itself as a four-storey massive concrete building with a glass tiered floor. The position of the four floors resembles a loose stack of blocks or boxes, which are stacked alternately to form a cantilever at different angles on the street and courtyard sides. The enclosed façade is decorated with greatly enlarged fragments of architectural sketches in relief. The perforations and the colour of the exposed concrete are intended to refer to the use of the building as an exhibition space for architectural drawings. The building contains an entrance area, two exhibition rooms, a museum depository and a conference room. Through a large, deeply grooved wooden door, we were able to peer inside the museum's foyer, which has large-scale hand-carved wall panels.
On Brunnenstraße we had a glimpse of the gallery building and architect Brandlhuber's own studio. He worked on the building together with Emde and Burlon in 2007-10. The street façade suggests a radical architectural solution that is not usual for the location, yet it does not in any way disturb the surrounding buildings, but rather complements them and fills in the former gap. The façade consists of polycarbonate panels with large glass panels that are not symmetrically placed. The height of the concrete building corresponds to the surrounding buildings. Through the open ground floor we reached the courtyard, which is dominated by a staircase made of raw concrete with a relatively low handrail. The staircase is freely accessible from the courtyard and so we had the opportunity to see the terraces of the individual floors. The rear façade of the building is largely glazed.
While walking along Auguststraße, we also stopped for a while at the Baugruppe Auguststraße building, which houses the architectural studio Grüntuch Ernst Architekten. It's located in a pleasant neighborhood of Berlin, right across from Gipsdreieck Park. In addition to offices, the building also houses residential or exhibition space. An interesting feature is the arrangement of the apartments, providing the spatial qualities and comfort of urban living, in a spatial jigsaw, which is also reflected in the façade. Wide structural strips dividing the facade, multi-storey loggias and large glass areas give the building an original look. There is also a small courtyard at the rear, accessible to all the building's occupants.
Among the architectural gems, we discovered another fascinating structure - the Cafe Bravo, located in the courtyard of the Berlin Institute of Contemporary Art. Rustic paving stones and picturesque slatted fences surrounding old trees added to the atmosphere of the place. Designed by Dan Graham and realized with architect Johann Nalbach, the building opened in September 1999. At times the pavilion appears transparent, at others like a mirror. A duo of mirrored glass cubes reflect the surrounding classical architecture, creating an ever-changing spectacle. It's a great blend of the past with ultra-modern design. To end our walk, we passed through the largest inner city development in Berlin at Tacheles. The more than 25,000 square meters of wasteland around the so-called Kunsthaus Tacheles has become a gigantic construction site.
Ten buildings with offices and apartment buildings are grouped around four courtyards that are assigned to the areas of housing, commerce, culture and work. Restaurants and retail businesses are intended to enliven the district.
The historic part of Tacheles has been preserved - along with the graffiti. And the L-shape of the passage from Friedrichstraße to Oranienburger Straße follows the historical model of the pre-war period.
A large square, lined with restaurants and shops, opens onto Oranienburger Straße. The whole district was also intended to be green and airy. The roofs are also green and instead of roofing as in the historic arcades, green bridges at great height connect the two sides of the courtyard on the left and right.
Bc. Adéla Juřičková
Bc. Tamara Bartalová
Bc. Vanessa Rontová
Bc. Sára Tomková
Martina Hešlarová
Stepan Chopyk
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