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House for a Goldsmith / Christoph Wagner Architekten

Valeria Silva — Fri, 07 Feb 2025 10:00:00 +0000

A farmhouse in the Mark Brandenburg, half an hour north of Berlin, was to become the client's new home and workplace. The agricultural use of the house was probably abandoned in the 1950s and the stable and workshop rooms were converted into four flats. The client decided to keep the remaining old tenant in the house and not alter this flat. The remaining areas were carefully remodeled and converted into living and working spaces by Christoph Wagner architects with Wenke Schladitz and reoriented towards the surrounding garden. A flat with 140 square meters was created on two floors. It was important to the client and the architects to preserve the character of the house with its traces and layers of time. A complete renovation was not desired. For example, cracks were only repaired where structurally necessary and not for design reasons. Large areas of the building were left untouched.

LOVO Building / Christoph Wagner Architekten + Wenke Schladitz

Andreas Luco — Tue, 24 Dec 2024 10:00:00 +0000

LOVO is a 6-story residential building focused on the LGBTQ+ community, including inhabitants with refugee background. Located in Berlin's Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg borough, it was designed and developed by the Berlin based architects Christoph Wagner in collaboration with Wenke Schladitz, together with Schwulenberatung Berlin, an organization providing psychosocial counseling to gay, lesbian, bisexual, transsexual and intersex people. In 2014 Christoph Wagner and his partner, the artist Ulrich Vogl, found a plot next to the very central Ostkreuz train station. When a large refugee influx hit the city in 2015, the couple felt the need to help this population. Combining this wish with their own life experience in the LGBTQ+ community, they partnered with Schwulenberatung Berlin, who brought in new programmatic ideas and input on ways to deal with the property.