LIVING LEVELS BY NPS TCHOBAN VOSS CONQUERING NEW YORK – INTERVIEW WITH BIG ENERGY SELF-SUFFICIENT INDEPENDENT MULTI-FAMILY DWELLING GENESIS OF HIGH-RISE RESIDENTIAL BUILDINGS

Sanjay Puri (Sanjay Puri Architects, Mumbai) LET’S TALK ABOUT: LIVING pulse interviews Indian architect Sanjay Puri How is the topic of home living currently What do you see as the current international and a large 800-square-foot deck. Almost the trends in residential construction? entire site will be landscaped and pedestrian India is a country with numerous, diverse cul- High-rise buildings can be a good solution as friendly with a basement car park. tures and in each region, homes are discussed long as the design creates large community quite differently. In the cities of the South peo- open...

RENAISSANCE OF THE HIGH-RISE • P. 4 VISIONS: LIVING IN MINIMALISTIC STYLE • P. 8 A HOUSE THAT SUPPLIES ITS OWN POWER • P. 12 BERLIN HIGH-RISE NEXT TO EAST SIDE GALLERY • P. 18 CAREFULLY PLACED URBAN BUILDING BLOCK • P. 26 NEWCOMER • P. 32 WAF 2016 IN BERLIN • P. 33 DISSOCIATION FROM SUBURBIA – INTERVIEWING BJARKE INGELS GROUP • P. 36 ABB-FREE@HOME® WIRELESS• P. 40 04 MACRO RENAISSANCE OF THE HIGH-RISE pulse is also available as a free app for iPhone, iPad or iPod touch. This time the app accesses other Bjarke Ingels Group designs, too BY PETER KOERNER 08 VISIONS LIVING IN MINIMALISTIC STYLE 12...

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MACRO Peter Körner has been working as an independent curator for Deutsches Architekturmuseum in Frankfurt since 2010. Most recently, he curated the International High-Rise Award 2016, which is awarded bi-annually by DAM, the City of Frankfurt and Deka Bank. RENAISSANCE OF THE HIGH-RISE The times in which residential high-rises were constructed as artless, unaesthetic boxes are over. As the International High-Rise Award 2016 has shown, the developers of today’s high-rises prefer to build in the metropolises of our globalized world, and the homes they offer provide exclusive comfort and phenomenal...

Rafael Viñoly created the tallest purely residential high-rise world-wide with 432 Park Avenue. The exclusive apartments with their spacious window areas provide breath-taking views. foreign buyers, and that they are often left empty most of time. There is Municipal Planning Department Mike Josef, a Social Democrat, has a very real risk that we will see similar developments in the residential now called for up to 30 percent of the flats in Frankfurt’s largest resi- towers currently being built in Germany. However, as long as there are dential high-rise project, currently being built on the former...

bloomimages Courtesy Richard Meier & Partners Architects; Magnus Kaminiarz & CIE Commissioning of the “Strandhaus” in Hamburg (design: Richard Meier) is scheduled for 2018 (left), Magnus Kaminiarz & CIE are planning the Grand Tower for Frankfurt’s Europaviertel quarter. In Singapore, the current hotspot for innovative concepts, the Housing trates the current shift in international high-rise construction, away & Development Board is planning gigantic residential machines togeth- from traditional office blocks and towards residential and mixed-usage er with the local architecture offices. These...

LIVING IN MINIMALISTIC STYLE In view of the rising property prices in larger cities, minimal housing, sharing communities and micro apartments are currently much-discussed topics and becoming more attractive for young people and singles in particular. Below you’ll find some – in part already tested – visionary ideas that make comfortable living in small spaces possible. CABIN SPACEY Prompted by a comment from a potential client, Berlin-based architect made up of a solid core comprising a sanitary area and kitchen. Above Simon Becker began mulling over innovative ideas for creating living this...

PAUL JAEGER: MINIMAL SHARING HOUSING_ONE What if a group of about nine people was to live in a house together and enhanced energy values in relation to the cost of building. The unusual share all of the interior furnishings and infrastructure? Paul Jäger based shape also makes it possible to place the most important interior area in his Bachelor project at Leipzig University of Applied Sciences on this the limelight in the best way, because it means the large communal room notion. What is so innovative about his design entitled “Minimal Sha- looks different according to the season and weather....

DEKLEVA GREGORIC ARCHITECTS: MONOHOUSE “Our buildings need to be smart, but ultimately also attractive of course”, say architects Tina Gregorič and Aljoša Dekleva, describing their work. In 2003, they set up their own company in Ljubljana, Slovenia, and caused a stir in the professional world with their very first building, XXS House. The relevant authorities only approved the purist design for a weekend home after intense struggle. dekleva gregorič architects developed the extremely reduced concept for monohouse in 2015. It envisages a simple yet comfortable living environment, which can take...

AUTONOMOUS HOUSE René Schmid Architekten have created a trailblazing project in Brütten, Switzerland: the very first energy self-sufficient independent multi-family dwelling. Here, the planners successfully combined tried-and-true sustainable technologies that enable energy-independent residences across a total of more than 1,000 square metres. Text: Lasse Ole Hempel • Photos: René Schmid Architekten Commissioned in 2016, the energy self-sufficient multi-family dwelling in Brütten generates and stores all the power it needs to operate, including the household electricity. There is no connection...

In the fully furnished showroom flat, anyone interested can find out more about the technology used, such as the ABB-free@home® house controls. where anyone interested can find out all about the pro- surrounding built environment. The architects thus suc- ject and get new ideas for their own home. In Brütten one cessfully subdivide the volume and keep the scale small. special focus has been on user behaviour: Energy/con- Thanks to its roof design, the multi-family dwelling is sumption monitoring and special energy management reminiscent of the traditional buildings nearby, whereby follows and...