The "HeimatMole" joint building venture is a group of clients who want to combine living and freelance work in one building. To this end, three guiding principles were defined, which serve as the overarching goals of the building community, but at the same time were to be realised in the built space:

"Mooring" is understood in two senses: As an investment of financial value and as the laying of a foundation for a unique and forward-looking project.

For the community, "arriving" means being open to everyone and creating suitable space for almost any lifestyle. It also means promoting the synergetic co-existence of work and life, comfort and energy efficiency, family and individual households as well as young and old in a single residential neighbourhood.

For Heimatmole, being able to "stay" in all situations is the basis for a material home. This enables a spatially flexible, cross-generational and energetically sustainable residential concept.

Taking the home into your own hands

Based on the awareness that the demands on living, especially in combination with working, are changing, a spatial programme was developed that enables the apartments to interact with so-called switch rooms. Switch rooms are flexible extension areas that can be ‘switched’ to the individual apartments. The small, flexibly assignable and self-sufficient units are also accessible via the stairwell and are thus open to temporary flatmates.