Heavy architectural bronze is applied TO the historic structure The underground car park is accessed via a newly installed car lift, whose retractable gate has been inconspicuously integrated into the listed facade. A newly added extension in the courtyard, with its smooth facade of exposed concrete, contrasts with the historic wall surfaces of the existing building and zones the inner courtyard on two different levels, which are now connected by a bright steel staircase. Additional usable space is thus created on the property, which stands originally already fully developed. The existing courtyard ceiling is demolished and the entire basement is lowered by means of underpinning using the jet grouting method so that the newly created rooms have sufficient room height. A contemporary utilization concept is developed by combining flexibly divisible office and exhibition space. The design team at Club Marginal aims to preserve and leave visible both the original charm and the layers of time in the building’s form through a series of extensive renovation and conversion measures. The plan follows extensive renovation and conversion measures Listed facade Moeckernstrasse 120 | all images by Waldemar Salesski This forms one large contiguous room per floor, which is still characteristic of the building’s spatial structure today. Instead of a massive central wall, only two continuous iron columns support the ceilings of the front building. Built in 1909-1910 according to the plans of the Berlin architectural firm Cremer & Wolffenstein, the construction, in contrast to the classically structured facades, is clad with tuff towards the street and glazed clinker in the courtyard. Known for the production of light railway equipment and tipper trucks, railways, construction machinery, escalators, and ships, the industrial company moves the headquarters on Tempelhofer Ufer and the administrative building at Möckernstraße 120, which is now a listed building, dates from this period of economic prosperity. The edifice hosts the former headquarters of Ohrenstein und Koppel, O&K, a mechanical engineering company founded in 1876 by Benno Orenstein and Artur Koppel in Schlachtensee near Berlin. O&K Moeckenstrasse office building restored by Club MarginalĬlub Marginal Architekten takes over the conversion and refurbishment of a historic office building located on the edge of Kreuzberg, Germany.
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