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Entwurf • Design LXSY Architekten, Berlin
„Für einen zukunftsfähigen Wandel muss
der lineare Bau- und Planungsprozess durch ein
kreislauffähiges System abgelöst werden!“
LXSY Architekten
Grundriss Erdgeschoss • Ground floor plan
Grundriss Obergeschoss • Upper floor plan
Bauherr • Client Impact Hub Berlin GmbH, Berlin
Standort • Location Rollbergstraße 28a, Berlin
Foto: Hannes Wiedemann
Nutzfläche • Floor space 3500 m 2
Fotos • Photos Studio Bowie, Berlin
Mehr Infos auf Seite • More info on page 166
COWORKING SPACE
IMPACT HUB IN BERLIN
For long now, the goal has no longer merely been to
leave a minimized but a positive footprint as regards the
most sustainability behind – and this in all respects. In
project partnership with TRSNFRM and entirely in the
spirit of the circular economic community of the Impact
Hub operator, LXSY Architekten have expanded the
CRCLR building in Berlin into a coworking space.
I mpact Hub Berlin is part of a global network of so-called changema-
kers who share the conviction that, belonging to a global community,
they can achieve a fairer future for people and the planet in social, eco-
logical, financial and inclusive respects. Entrepreneurs who share this
spirit are able to participate in this and become a part of this by beco-
ming a member of Impact Hub. It is the circular attitude, the global co-
operative idea which distinguishes the Impact Hub community from
other coworking spaces. Community-oriented living and working is also
the guiding theme of the CRCLR building on the site of the former Kindl
brewery in the city district of Neukölln. With 3,500 square metres, 25
team offices, a café and a roof terrace, this is the largest Impact Hub in
Europe so far. With the aspiration of establishing a zero-waste building
where material cycles are interconnected in such as way that the waste
materials of the ones become the secondary raw materials of the other
users, from among the people in the CRCLR collective the TRSNFRM eG
developed which realized a sustainable refurbishment and an extension
of the former warehouse. In 2015, LXSY Architekten had successfully
completed the interior construction of the Impact Hub Berlin Kreuzberg
in a participatory and sustainable way and now, in a cooperative process
together with TRSNFRM eG, designed the interiors of the Impact Hub
Neukölln. In the conflicting priorities of choosing between “use as is”
and “upcycle”, approximately 70 percent of the reused materials and –
wherever necessary – sustainable new materials have been used. For-
going plasterboard in favour of brickwork, local maritime pine and
spruce with a wooden-stand grid of 62.5 centimetres for an optimum use
of leftover wood cuttings were complemented with hemp walls (room
climate and sound insulation) as well as felt and straw panels (room
acoustics). Not last, by reusing the sliding doors of telephone booths
from the former Impact Hub Berlin, of black MDF from a Berlin club, for-
mer sitting elements of a supermarket, windows from a demolition con-
struction site and tiles from old stocks, LXSY have set an example of clea-
ring up the prejudice that circular buildings lack aesthetics. More of this!
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