Far Frohn & Rojas Planungsgesellschaft mbH

Apartment Rungestrasse

Apartment Rungestrasse 

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Apartment Rungestrasse
© Tobias Wootton

ARCHITECTS
Far Frohn&rojas

PHOTOGRAPHS
Tobias Wootton

PROJECT TEAM
Marc Frohn, Mario Rojas Toledo, Max Koch, Max Lefebvre, Maria Martinez

AREA
211 M²

YEAR
2024

LOCATION
Berlin, Germany

CATEGORY
Apartments, Apartment Interiors

Apartment Rungestrasse
© Tobias Wootton
Apartment Rungestrasse
© Tobias Wootton
Apartment Rungestrasse
© Tobias Wootton

Transforming part of a former office building from the early 1930s into an apartment we were confronted with the challenge to maintain the spaciousness that its open plan had to offer and refrain from subdividing it into a series of isolated rooms.

The first architectural element we introduced was therefore a shelf featuring five bays and two levels.

Apartment Rungestrasse
© Tobias Wootton
Apartment Rungestrasse
© Tobias Wootton

Each bay houses an individual environment: an entry zone, a cooking area, a work space, a bathroom, a reading nook, a sleeping loft, ….Meandering around the shelf leads to the bedroom.

We also introduced three domed lamps three meters in diameter each hanging right above head-height and zoning the remaining open space.

Apartment Rungestrasse
© Tobias Wootton
Apartment Rungestrasse
© Tobias Wootton

Each of them references an architectural precedent: the Pantheon, the “großes Schauspielhaus” and the geodesic dome.

Apartment Rungestrasse
© Tobias Wootton
Apartment Rungestrasse
© Tobias Wootton


Apartment Rungestrasse
© Tobias Wootton
Apartment Rungestrasse
© Tobias Wootton
Apartment Rungestrasse
© Tobias Wootton


Apartment Rungestrasse
Apartment Rungestrasse
Apartment Rungestrasse
Apartment Rungestrasse


Apartment Rungestrasse
Apartment Rungestrasse
Apartment Rungestrasse
Apartment Rungestrasse
Apartment Rungestrasse
Apartment Rungestrasse

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