
CHRISTIAN SCHREIBER HAUS
Like a tree planted by the water
Location: Grünheide, Germany
Planning: I BA 2015–2017, II BA 2021–2023
Project Phases: HOAI 1–9
Commission: Archbishopric Ordinariate, Diocese of Berlin
Construction costs: 780.114,00 €
Area: 13.465,00 m²
Status: zrealizowany
The project is a conception developed out of the context and integrating the existing buildings, which lives from the potential of the site. To a large extent existing materials are reused or further developed. In the future, this strong framework will offer a variety of possibilities for additions and changes to existing functions. It offers great flexibility for further development while maintaining the identity- creating, overall concept.
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The open spaces close to the building, with their architectural character, are the entrance, the piazza with seating and stair landscape, and the Mariengarten:
The piazza will be further developed into a loose tree-covered square. On the west side of the Christian Schreiber House, the existing staircase will be transformed into a seating and stair landscape with shrub solitaires and a water staircase, and thus into a new highlight of the complex facing the lakefront. The Mariengarten will be recreated as a green, cloister-like courtyard. The architecture of the pergola is derived from the chapel architecture. The main entrance on the field path is transformed into a representative reception area with few formal means (low hedges). All spaces are designed with uniform materials (yellow clinker, concrete walls, light-colored seating).



The green lawn facing Luisenstraße, the front surroundings of the house and the economic areas around the newly created Marien-Garten are ordered and receive a common green frame through the surrounding hedge. The heart of the complex is the green tree hall with piazza and green lawn. Here, functional improvements such as the installation of ground sleeves for play as well as sun protection increase the experience value. At the edge, several round green themed islands (e.g. bakehouse, fragrance garden, St. Francis cross) are embedded in the green frame, where the areas of pastoral care, education and leisure come to the fore. The relationship to the lake and neighborhood in the district is established through large windows in the hedge frame at the entrance, the connection to the lake property and at the southern extension to the pasture. In the front area of the building and in the surroundings around the Mariengarten, the existing uses are spatially optimized, but above all, working areas are separated from representative open spaces and those intended for recreation. Individual new plantings enrich these open spaces.



To the south, the St. Mary’s Garden at the chapel, the alternating willow and the fruit corner terminating to the south are visually connected by generous spatial openness.
The existing beautiful groups of trees in the southern plot are complemented by a group of fruit trees and numerous fruit bushes and enriched by embedded uses
The openness of the large meadow, which characterizes the lakeside property, is to be preserved and thus the green sports field and the play landscapes are positioned at the edges. When it comes to play, the emphasis is on the immediate experience of nature and communal togetherness. This is expressed both in the play areas designed for different group sizes and the near-natural, to some extent “wilderness-like” design.


OVERARCHING GOALS
1. To appropriately design the entrance area of the house from the field path in keeping with the function of the house as the “flagship” of the Archdiocese.
2.To strengthen the connection of the piazza and the main house with the lake property through spatial vistas, a wider path and a common frame design.
3. to develop the southern area, starting from the elevated terrace of the chapel, as a spatial sequence of individual spaces (Mary’s garden, changing willow, fruit corner) on the one hand, but also connected to each other by visual connections.

