JOH3: Privacy in Urban Context

In the heart of Berlin’s Mitte district is built residential complex designed by one of the most innovative German architects and designers Jurgen Mayer H. He has recreated the classic image of an apartment house in Berlin with a small green courtyard, but it followed the most modern approaches to the design, ensuring a sustainable balance between ergonomics and ecology. Sculptural pendant lamellas on the front face of the unusual shape of the building, visually extrapolating it to the landscaped courtyard and interiors.

OH3 is a unique residential building in downtown Berlin developed by Euroboden and designed by J. Mayer H. Located on Johannisstraße in Mitte, Berlin’s downtown district the seven story building neighbors both the Museum Island and Friedrichstrasse. The ground floor provides commercial space and the interior courtyard is a private respite for residents of the multi-unit building. The apartments all face southwest, opening to the calm, carefully designed courtyard garden as well as daylight. The sculptural louvered facade works to protect the interior from overheating and provide privacy. Twenty years after reunifcation, the historic center of Berlin near Museum Island and Friedrichstraße is a charming mixture of renovated 18th and 19th century luxury buildings, pre-fab concrete structures and contemporary architecture. And yet even a big city like Berlin has its surprising moments; just a stones-throw from the hustle and bustle of the Friedrichstadtpalast, a new building’s unmistakable look forms an interesting contrast with the Kalkscheune’s old, typically Berlin structures. Developing out of this soft, three-dimensional, sculpturally crafted façade of countless vertical slats is an architecture infused with poetry.

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