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The SAB office building is embedded in the site of the historical Koenigstadt Brewery in Berlin. The district takes its character from its Art Nouveau and Wilhelminian style architecture. The old vaulted cellar, which was used as a beer storage room, has been partly exposed, preserved, and sensitively integrated into the new office building. The reinforced-concrete skeleton structure with five partly twisted upper floors and two basement floors rests on a clinker brick solid base which picks up on and reinterprets the materiality and colours of the surrounding industrial buildings. The roof of the plinth overlooking Saarbruecker Strasse fringes the upper storeys and has been designed as a spacious, partly planted terrace area.
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The SAB office building is embedded in the site of the historical Koenigstadt Brewery in the Berlin district of Prenzlauer Berg, directly on Saarbruecker Strasse, a street with Art Nouveau and Wilhelminian style architecture. The new building occupies the free corner of the street. The site was once Berlin's largest brewery for around 100 years. After an eventful history, the six brewery buildings are now in mixed use by neighbourhood initiatives, media companies and start-ups. The old vaulted cellar, which was used as a beer storage room, has been partly exposed, preserved, and sensitively integrated into the new SAB building. Clinker Bricks are used for the base, a colour- and material connection to the surrounding listed historic buildings.
The SAB office building façades of the first to fifth storeys above the plinth consist of sawtooth-like, scaly, floor-to-ceiling windows in dark aluminium frames. The twisting of the upper storeys with differently orientated façade scaling and alternating large, two-storey bay windows makes the rotation of the upper part of the building even more eye-catching. The rotation and set back of the building volumes impart a certain lightness and pay respect to the surrounding buildings in this location by creating new visual axes. Depending on where the viewer is standing, the historical façades on the opposite side of the street are reflected in the windows – a calculated optical interplay that, in a visual liaison between old and new, allows the new building to appear as a harmonious component in a historical street front that has developed over time. Advantage has been taken of the upwardly sloping site to cut the ground floor of the building into the terrain by half a storey. In the direction of the courtyard this produces an open space which is partly overhung by the storeys above. Into this space the exposed vaulted rear side of the underground beer cellar has been integrated like a historical ruin. The ground floor contains a conference centre with a central foyer and a Japanese garden. The roof is covered in greenery. The technical structures on the roof are recessed into its surface so that they cannot be seen from the upper floors of neighbouring buildings.
The exposed office building is located directly on the listed site of the historic Koenigstadt brewery, high up on Prenzlauer Berg in Berlin. Architect Sergei Tchoban has designed an efficient steel/glass façade from which all office users will have an unobstructed view of the historical monuments in the surrounding area. Up to 400 workstations are created in various office types.
TCHOBAN VOSS Architekten design, plan and build for national and international clients in the public and private sectors.
The company, with offices in Hamburg, Berlin and Dresden, is named after Sergei Tchoban, architect BDA, and his partner Ekkehard Voss, architect BDA (1963-2024).
With over 150 highly qualified, interdisciplinary employees and many years of experience, it offers architecturally and functionally sustainable solutions for a wide variety of building tasks in Germany and abroad.
In addition to residential and commercial buildings, the firm’s focus includes the planning of hotels, commercial centres, office complexes and industrial facilities, leisure, educational and social facilities, as well as conversions and revitalisations in listed buildings. For these projects, TCHOBAN VOSS Architekten has always taken on all architectural services up to and including general planning.
