Volt Berlim / J. Mayer H.
J. Mayer H. has won an invited competition in 2014 to design “Volt Berlin,” a new “shopping and urban experience” center near Berlin’s Alexanderplatz. The winning scheme offers a variety of experiential offerings, including multi-brand shopping, an indoor skydiving and event space, and a 7,500 square meter hotel, all within a single cubed complex whose organization is based off an uneven grid.
“One particularly striking aspect of the design is the luminous horizontal glazed line that runs like a tension fissure all the way through the building,” described J. Mayer H. “This intermediate space, located at the level of the train viaduct, will host the center’s most important attractions: indoor-skydiving and a surf wave. This energy line will exude into the urban space around the center, while Berlin and the immediate area around Alexanderplatz will always be present as a location and a backdrop.”
Architects: J. Mayer H. Architects
Location: Alexanderplatz, 10178 Berlin, Germany
Category: Shopping Centers
Architect in Charge: Jürgen Mayer H.
Competition Team: Christoph Emenlauer, Simon Kassner, Bart van den Hoven, Mehrdad Mashaie, Mael Kang, Paul Angelier, Julien Sarale
Area: 29500.0 m2
Client: TKN Real Estate Solutions AG, Jochen Schweizer Projects AG
Fire Security Consultant: KLW Ingenieure GmbH
Structural Engineer: Knippers Helbig GmbH
Building Service Engineer: Transsolar Energietechnik GmbH
Cost Planning: Jablonka Sieber Partner Architekten
Engineering Consultant, Escalators and Elevators: Lüsebrink Ingenieure VBI
Retail Space: 13,000 m2
Gastronomy: 2,000 m2
Hotel: 7,500 m2
Disponível em: www.archdaily.com.br/br/602141. Acesso em: 31/05/2019.
