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The Lobe Block is a Terracebuilding in the northern district Wedding in Berlin, Germany. The multipurpose house was built by the Brandlhuber+Emde Architects in cooperation with, Burlon / Muck PetzetArchitects during the period of 2014 and finished 2018.

Architecture
The Lobe Block is situated in a in a heterogeneous neighborhood of commercial and residential blocks with no “binding land-use plan, and a regulation from 1958 only permits the construction of commercial buildings“. The building is designed as a multipurpose building that combines creative work with a restaurant, a yoga studio and urban gardening. “An ongoing grandfather clause also ensures that the area remains essentially a residential zone.”commercial building but could become a residential site in the future. It’s a five story high creating a ziggurat-like shaped building with 6-meter-long semipublic terraces. The building covers a total area of 2086 m² and has a usable floor area of 3396 m². The Ground floor has a 7.50 m wide semi-public space which is created though shifting the ground floor area to the south of the site. “The floor units vary between 26 meters to 11 at the highest level.” Each Floor has a its own semipublic terraces which is connected on all floors with two external staircases which function as main access to the building and are leading to the public rooftop. The Architects decided to skip the common central access core of a building. All floors can be accessed as well through two elevators which are used as the central reinforcement core for the building. It’s a brutalist mixed used building which combines studio and galleries with spacious, semi-public terraces urban gardening and a yoga loft. It is a new interpretation of the typology Terraces buildings.

Material
The Lobeblock is made out of expodsed concrete. Spaces can be subdivided by use of partition walls made of Aleppo pine panels. Up to four separate, parallel units spanning the entire building width can be created per level. This flexibility enables the customization of studio and exhibition uses within the building, complemented by the restrained design gesture of the loft-like spaces. They are characterized by exposed concrete surfaces with a rough appearance and sunscreens made of semi-transparent and shimmering polyethylene curtains.