House for Art Collectors L40

House. Made of concrete. Dark and serious, yet full of lightness and trust. Another contribution of classic modernity, seductive and rejecting at the same time.
In recent months, a number of projects have emerged in Berlin that do not quite fit into the conservative atmosphere here and immediately attract attention with their innovative architecture. Just a few blocks from the office of Arno Brandlhuber, a black concrete building for an art collector has risen on a complicated plot. The house, with the austere name 'L40', comes from the Berlin office BundschuhBaumhauer and is located at the northern end of Rosa Luxemburg Platz. On the narrow triangular plot, individual apartments are stacked on top of one another, with none of them being the same. The distinctly sculptural concept arose from a collaboration with the artist Cosima von Bonin, who played with the layout of 2500 m² in shapes that meet the specific needs of the art collector. The apartments feature as many full walls as possible to accommodate large artworks. The building represents a play of open and closed surfaces and volumes. The smooth white plaster of the interior rooms stands in stark contrast to the rough outdoor surfaces of black concrete. “This contrast is further enhanced by a number of interior rooms without windows, where sunlight enters through upper skylights. The more than twenty-meter-long cantilevers of the apartments are both dynamic and static at the same time.”
Special attention was paid by the architects to limiting noise and vibration transmission, which was successfully solved by ensuring that no part of the building is in immediate contact with its surroundings due to thick layers of insulation. Future art collectors can gaze through large windows directly at one of Berlin's busiest intersections while the noise of passing cars remains outside.