By arranging distinct individual volumes, the project on Siemensdamm — as a new urban building block — creates an ensemble of five distinct buildings that strikingly combines functionality, sustainability, and spatial quality. With its finely scaled structure, it responds sensitively to the varying urban conditions of its context while simultaneously forming a coherent building block within the urban fabric.

The individual building volumes vary in height, with three high points marking the distinctive urban contexts. The other buildings are set back in height, creating a varied silhouette that lends the development an appropriate urban scale and provides a fitting counterpart to the terraced historic Siemens complex.

The complex organizes different types of housing within individual buildings, each of which is given its own programmatic and architectural identity through varied heights, facade relief, and design. The shared, single-story base on the ground floor connects the individual buildings and anchors them in the urban space. On the upper floors, each building is designated for a specific use — a hotel, loft apartments along a communal pergola, student and senior housing, and duplex apartments.

Facing the large-scale Siemensdamm, the new ensemble presents a striking yet understated appearance. Towards the quieter Popitzweg and the Siemensstadt World Heritage Quarter to the north, it opens up with the inviting gesture of an open, green courtyard. At the heart of the new building, this creates an elevated, semi-public open space that benefits residents, users, and the surrounding neighborhood. The opening of the building’s volume and the semi-public courtyard toward Popitzweg strengthens the project’s integration into the neighboring residential district.