Ladders give entry to mezzanine sleeping locations in rooms at this pupil residence within a former auto-radio button factory in Berlin’s Kreuzberg district .
The 260-area G.27 Worldwide Institute is spread across two buildings, which collectively make up 79,000 square feet (seven,339 square metres) of space. Every floor has 40 rooms, and a communal kitchen and lounge space.
Property developer Macro Sea sourced each vintage and modern pieces of furnishings, with a emphasis on Danish and up-and-coming Berlin designers.
Bedroom wardrobes are on wheels, to permit college students to effortlessly re-arrange space layouts, and incorporate metal drawers made from storage boxes salvaged from the unique factory.
Rooms are offered for single or double occupancy, and have bunkbeds or mezzanine sleeping locations – available through slatted ladder-type staircases with metal handrails.
The task was developed for and overseen by non-profit organisation Council on Global Educational Exchange (CIEE), which promotes global training and exchanges.
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Shared residing locations feature a mixture of old and new pieces in muted colours, even though communal kitchens have a central bar and characteristic vivid yellow accents.
The developing lobby – which was designed to be the “heart of the undertaking” – has a bespoke stone reception desk and functioning fireplace, and provides a number of seating regions for socialising or studying.
The buildings also home classrooms, an architectural studio, kitchens, a workshop, and an occasions room.
The house developers partially excavated the front courtyard to produce further organic light in the building’s basement, re-paved the courtyards and additional a terraced lawn.
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“Macro Sea sought to generate an environment that treats college students as savvy international citizens rather than wards of an institution,” the organization said in a statement.
“Aiming to transform the conventional study-abroad experience, the undertaking is a total-fledged “vertical campus” the place residing, academic classes, dining and socialising are stacked in the very same creating, generating a state-of-the-art interdisciplinary space that anticipates collaborative, task-based finding out,” they extra.
Elsewhere in Berlin, regional practice Sauerbruch Hutton renovated and extended a former military uniform factory, to accommodate its own offices, whilst Kinzo transformed 3 floors of a former brewery into headquarters for audio platform Soundcloud.
Photography is by Chris Mosier.
Idea sketch of a bedroom 
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Ground floor plan 
Normal upper floor prepare
