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Our task is to design a building for a new type of academy, which should make three essential areas of a sustainable lifestyle tangible and learnable: Nutrition - preparing and cooking food and eating together, Sport - movement, body awareness and balance, Soul - a place for rest and concentration, and a lot of connection to nature.

Schellack-Höfe

The courtyard complex ‚Schellack-Höfe' is characterized by its fantastic location on the Spree and the architectural quality of the existing buildings.
The aim of our design is to develop the location sustainably, as well as to make 'Die Schellack-Höfe' more present in the city and to enhance the perception of the quarter.

ZigZag

MVRDV and morePlatz have completed ZigZag, an office building that pioneers the transformation of Mainz’s Zollhafen from an industrial area to a lively city quarter. With its zig-zagging “folded skin” of aluminium panels, the six-storey building creates a landmark at Zollhafen’s Hafenspitze, enjoying views over the entire harbour basin.

HIP_1

The Hamburg Innovation Port - HIP - forms the future context for the building HIP_1, which comprises the first phase of the development.
The location of the HIP in the Harburg inland harbor, between the Blohmstraße and the Ziegelwiesenkanal, offers a characteristic atmosphere, as well as a clear address of the project from the city as well as from the water side. The buildings of the HIP are organized in four strips oriented to the docks.

Citycenter Freiham

What kind of a center Freiham should get? What is special about the developing community around the ‘Mahatma Gandhi Platz’? How open and diverse is this place? How adaptable and alive during the day from early morning till late evening? The main point of the design is the vitality and use of the square. The buildings form a serving and in a comprehensive sense sustainable scenery.

Hohen Neuendorf

On top of the existing garage in the north of Berlin, a single-storey residential house in timber frame construction is added. The original building from 1978 was expanded by a storage in the early 1980s.
The former garage is newly plastered and the extension completely covered with horizontal wooden cladding. The existing structure and its addition appear as one coherent volume with a clearly legible subdivision.

Heidestrasse

The two southern blocks of the masterplan for Quartier Heidestrasse form an urbanistic exception - the new buildings are clustered in between existing volumes - party used for housing, partly commercial - and linked into one big city block. In contrast to the overall area of the Europa City, the buildings are part of a paramount urban structure. The design reflects this situation by combining the different functions of hotel, free sector and social housing into distinguished but related blocks.

Hamburg Innovation Port
competition 1st Prize; collaboration with MVRDV

HIP, the Hamburg Innovation Center, is located at a bassin in the port of Harburg, as one important piece of the long-term project 'channel harburg' for conversion and development of the area. The basic organisation and the high density is based on an interpretation and densification of the combinations and compositions of large building-volumes that are characteristic for harbour areas.

Freiham München
competition 3rd Prize; collaboration with Oever Zaaijer

Freiham is currently Munich’s largest urban development project, situated at the western perimeter of the city. In the coming years approximately 4.000 flats and apartments will be built. Municipal housing developer Gewofag organized and run the competition for a project of ca. 230 units of social subsidized housing plus social and cultural program. The design of morePlatz, in collaboration with Oever Zaaijer, Amsterdam and Realgrün, Munich was awarded the 3rd Prize

Hafenspitze Mainz
competition 1st Prize; collaboration with MVRDV

Mainz's harbour area is being converted into a new urban neighborhood of residential and commercial functions. The plot 'Hafenspitze' is located at the far end of the harbour bassin overlooking the new development around the water. In order to create a strong and modestly iconic appearance for this pioneer development of the neighborhood the project reshapes the masterplan. The design proposes two distinct compact volumes forming an ensemble with a public plaza in its center.

GreenNest

GreenNest is a project initiated by InnovatieNetwerk together with SIGN and STIRR (private foundations for innovation in greenhouse industry and hospitality/tourism) with the support and collaboration of the municipal authorities of Amsterdam. GreenNest is designed to become one iconic project for both subjects. It combines a unique hotel and an experience center of stacked green worlds into one innovative building on a site in Amsterdam Zuid-Oost. The experience center comprises 10.000m2 over five floors very high floors with ca. 200 hotel lodges suspended from the ceilings.

Forum Wien

The design of the new 'Forum Building' is based on an interpretation of the layers and urban references of the very characteristic site in the center of Vienna. The building is composed of three slightly shifted volumes which refer, on different levels, to the structure of blocks and the historic rules and regulations of 'Rathauscarrée' around the City Hall. The shift of the volumes creates portions of different programme and allows for expanding public space on ground floor level and the rooftop.

Stadskas

‘Stadskas’ is a project designed for the Rhine-Harbour Area in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. It is a floating greenhouse that aims to connect the city’s population with the water as an urban space. In the framework of the development and ‘colonisation’ of the vast areas of former city-harbours of Rotterdam it has a substantial connection with water and with the future of water-life in this city. The water surface in the Netherlands will increasingly be included in the visions of the development of sustainable cities.

Zwemboot

The floating pool 'Zwemboot' brings back a historical function to the Rijnharbor of Rotterdam: from 1922 till 1962 the floating pool in the river Maas was highly popular especially for the youth at that time. Fifty years later, the private initiative of the architectural office morePlatz together with the swimming school 'Kikkersprong' revives this historical background.
The public pool not only addresses kids and swimming lessons but forms an attraction for the whole neighborhood with a wide program of water sports, swim training, sauna, wellness and massages.

Vendu

The headquarters of the "Vendu Notarishuis" - located at Kipstraat 54 - was one of Rotterdam's first buildings constructed after the war. It originally hosted the institute for the blind and features some remarkable architectural details such as large toplight rosettes and a spacious plinth. The building designed by Vermeer & van Herwaarden - nowadays listed as a monument - was converted into an auction hall in 1991 by Dutch architects Van den Broek & Bakema.

Schinkelplatz

In the vicinity of the competition site, the hIstorical buildings of the old 'pre-war' city of Berlin layout shall be reconstructed. What is the suitable handling with the task of building a new office complex in this strict framework? Can we design an image that beats the longing for the past? Which architecture pays respect to the site and at the same time stays recognizable as a contemporary building without historical quote, irony or criticism?

Haus der Zukunft

The situation of this historically meaningful area along the riverside of the Spree - right where the 'wall' used to separate the city - forms a challenging background for the 'House of the Future'. This central part of Berlin is still in development and the 'mental map' of the citizens and visitors is still undefined. Its immediate neighborhood is transformed according to a historicist master plan. Being an 'Exhibition hall of the Future' it not only has to constitute a 'window to the world of tomorrow' but also has to describe an access to the 'world of today'.
How can the project cope with the ambitious futuristic program and at the same time intermediate with the traditional block structure?

Olga-Areal

An entire cityblock in the western areas of Stuttgart is to be remodeled and developped for residential programme of ca. 200 houses. The erratic collection of large scale medical buildings of the Olga hospital that was composed of several decades should be 're-contextualized' in the new proposal.
The city block of the 19th century provides useful formal reference regarding scale and density. How can this type be applied and improved to match contemporary criteria? Which qualities could be added to the traditional block and how should it be upgraded to meet the requirements of 'new urban living'?

Wiesenkrone

The location of 'Kronenwiese' marks the transition from the inner city to the more quiet residential neighborhoods along the slope of 'Zürichberg'. A beautiful site overlooking the city towards the valley of river Limmat, yet restricted by busy roads on two sides of the site which cut the connections to the adjacent areas and to the river.
The programme of ca. 95 houses plus kindergardens and commercial spaces demands for a rather high density of building. How can the new structure be integrated with the surroundings? Could it even achieve an urban improvement for the area by spatial organisation and possible new connections?

Café Eisenmann

The Bavarian National Forest is Germany’s first National Park. It was found in 1970 and represents a regional attraction and important economic factor for the whole area with more than 700.000 visitors per year.
Since the fall of the ‘Iron Curtain’ the region is witnessing a continuous upswing – being shifted from a former fringe to a central position in Europe. Due to the National Park’s 40th anniversary the visitors’ center in Neuschönau is refurbished and extended.

	Fountain The new kiosk building for the bath 'Mythenquai' preserves the spacious lawn with solitary trees along the shore. The impressive landscape of the lake of Zurich is even enhanced - 'Fountain' is placed exactly at the same spot as the former kiosk. The vicinity to the shore but still central position is advantageous and takes into account the usage of customers throughout decennia. The new pavilion is fit into the center of the altered path system, that links the relevant elements of the site and guarantees optimal accessibility.