Finkenau Baugruppe
Hamburg, Germany
Six buildings, of 2 houses and 8 maisonettes, within a new terrace designed with and for a Baugruppe – a cooperative housing organisation – in Hamburg
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Within a new terrace, designed with and for, a Baugruppe
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Highly bespoke homes tailored to the occupants’ needs
Project Details
- Finkenau Baugruppe, Hamburg, Germany, 2013–2019
- Client: Planning Society Finken & Uhlen
- Status: Built
Awards
- BDA Hamburg Architecture Prize 2020, Second Prize
Finkenau is a terrace of 24 townhouses developed with Kraus Schönberg Architekten and DFZ Architekten, for a housing co-operative on a tree lined boulevard leading to the canal in Hamburg-Uhlenhorst.
With a mix of single-family homes and buildings of stacked maisonettes, a unifying four storey with top floor set back typology was developed. Adam Khan Architects designed six buildings peppered along the row, playing with room and void to create highly bespoke homes tailored to the occupants’ needs within the rigorous structural framework. Through colour, bond and jointing, the brickwork offers a diversity of expression, and is an interpretation of brick as surface patterns, or relief patterns, that places the townhouses within the Hanseatic tradition of robust and elegant brick architecture.
Collaborators
- Baubüro.eins
- Kraus Schönberg Architects
Photography
- Ioana Marinescu
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