Office and Apartment Building in Munich
- Julia Liese
Inspired by historical clinker buildings, for this office, apartment and commercial building in the new district of Schwabinger Tor the architects designed a clinker and concrete facade as a kind of relief extending across all storeys, which are used for different functions. The cross-shaped, reinforced concrete elements, in which stepped clinker slips are inserted, are connected by elements of light-coloured, acid-treated concrete. At the horizontal joints these are continued as pilaster strips between the windows, while vertically they can be read as small capitals. In this way the joints required by the construction become a kind of ornament. The window reveals and column claddings are made with concrete of the same colour, so that they match the overall appearance. Despite the severity of the grid, on several floors the windows differ in size, revealing that the storeys have different uses.
