J. Mayer h. architects: schlump ONE

'schlump ONE' by j. mayer h. architects, hamburg, germany
image © jan bitterall images courtesy of j. mayer h. architects

berlin-based practice j. mayer h. architects have reformed a 1950's office building in hamburg, germany, with a new aesthetic identity and an expansion that holds a small university as well as four rentable office units per floor. the linear design of the original structure was broken by a very different skin with rounded windows that wrap the corners of the edifice. the same language is carried through to the interior especially in section, seen also in the design of partitions and even to the handrail spindles. a centrally located  corridor services two sides of open and closed-off office spaces. in the expansion, an atrium splits the volume to bring light into  the classrooms sitting above a semi-underground parking garage.


new updated skin
images © jan bitter


images © jan bitter


image © jan bitter


(left) entrance and lobbyimage © jan bitter
(right) staircase
image © ludger paffrath


stairwell
image © ludger paffrath


light-filled interiors
image © ludger paffrath


hallways between two office spaces
image © ludger paffrath


image © ludger paffrath


image © ludger paffrath


image © ludger paffrath


central hallway with two open office areas
image © ludger paffrath


(left) new buildingimage © jan bitter(right) original building


site plan


floor plan / level 0


floor plan / level 1


floor plan / level 2

section 

section

project info:

project team: juergen mayer h., christoph emenlauer, mehrdad mashaie, jens seiffert, ana alonso de la varga
project architect: hans schneider

project: 2010 - 2012
completion: summer 2012
client: cogiton, projekt eimsbuettel gmbh, hamburg

architect on site: architekturbuero franke, hamburg
structural engineers: wtm engineers
building services: energiehaus ingenieure, sineplan, hamburg
landscape architects: breimann bruun simons, hamburg