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Apartment overlooking a Graveyard in Berlin
Contemporary Interior Architecture in Germany – design by ALLENKAUFMANN
10 Sep 2019
Apartment overlooking a Graveyard
Architects: ALLENKAUFMANN
Location: Berlin, Germany
Apartment overlooking a Graveyard

This is a ground floor apartment in Berlin, Mitte that looks over a cemetery. There are two courtyards to pass through to reach the apartment and each building in-between has a tunnel. Our building, which also had a tunnel, would become the main entrance and a bedroom.

The apartment ALLENKAUFMANN was hired to renovate would connect two separate ground floor spaces by closing off the building tunnel. The architects ended up with a useable floor plan area that we visualized as a square rectangle being divided in half and then one section being shifted away, forming an abstract S. The area left over from the shift is a private garden.
ALLENKAUFMANN’s clients were a married couple in their late 30s with two young children. They had recently returned from a trip to LA and they wanted something LAish, the architects countered and pushed for something more New Yorkish and Berlinish.

Berlin has a type of apartment layout that is unique and traditional to the city. The floor plan is very cut up and sectioned off, every room has a door and is connected to a central foyer or hallway. We proposed using the concept of the ?shifted rectangles ...