Ahoi Heimatmole

“We do not build for ourselves. We build for people, with people and for the city.”

In the condensed HafenCity, developers come together who want to combine living and freelance work in one house. The heart of the building is located in the entrance area: the Heimatclub is the address and place for communal activities. Greenery can be found as a garden on the roof, and in between, in a prime location, the staircase as a stage with green balconies. Usage-neutral floor plans allow for the most diverse forms of living, which are supplemented with temporarily usable switch rooms between two flats each, managed by the community.

Leaving behind the functional separation of modernity once and for all and being able to experience living, working and leisure in one place and in one building is the opportunity in the development of this building.

The central location of Baakenhafen, the density and the desired leisure quality are complemented by the switch rooms with home offices, the home club and the communal usable roof garden. In this sense, we have assigned the greenery directly to the open areas of the flats as added value and thus achieved a quality of use: the atmosphere of a green room, a garden on the floor, as sun protection, as wind protection, as a utility garden and as a clear design feature of the building that has a community-building effect.

Thus the green is a direct added value for the residents of the HafenMole building community, for living and as a point of identification: for the residents’ self-image and pride in their work and house. The connection of address, home club, the stage of the staircase and the roof garden are part of the commons, the flats part of privacy.