URBAN GREENHOUSE

The Urban Greenhouse constitutes a live-work tower designed for transient living and working, and a plinth that serves as a public green space. The greenhouse serves as an urban connector between the green spaces of Theodor-Heuss Platz situated to the west of the site and Lietzenseepark situated to the east. It provides a high quality green space for the transient residents, workers and visitors from the public.

The building program is subdivided within 3 main volumes. The top-most is the residential volume which has has two types of apartments to accommodate different numbers of occupants. It has all the amenities necessary for transient living such as laundry rooms and shared kitchen spaces.

The middle working volume of the tower constitutes both conventional working spaces featuring enclosed individual offices, and non conventional spaces featuring open plan co-working spaces.

The bottom-most plinth volume constitutes a greenhouse within which are elevated platforms that stand on thin steel columns. They hold a range of activities varying from transient working spaces such as hot desks and transient living spaces such as sleeping pods which short term users can rent for a few hours a day. Other activities include recreational spaces, coffee shops and local retail outlets.

The volume is made of a glass and lightweight steel structure which allows the greenhouse to be porous and transparent enough to ensure that visual connectivity remains between the inside and the outside of the volume.