Sustainable Residential Tower
KCAP and K+H, in collaboration with Transsolar KlimaEngineering, PML Lange and WTM Engineers have won the first prize in the competition for a sustainable residential tower in Hamburg, Germany. The project is one of three ‘Wasserhäuser’ that are to be built in the Baakenhafen, which is part of the HafenCity master plan by KCAP/ASTOC - currently the largest inner-city development in Europe. One of the main objectives was to design a tower that is part of its context but also has a clear identity of its own, and makes maximum use of its location.
A total of fourteen participants were invited in three parallel competitions by three different developers. KCAP and K+H competed for the westernmost plot, commissioned by LIP Ludger Inholte Pro...
- Client
- LIP Ludger Inholte Projektentwicklung GmbH
- Year
- 2022 - Building permit
- Status
- Building Permit
- Program
- 7.500 m2 Residential tower with 62 dwellings
- Disciplines
- Architecture
- Credits
- Visuals: Playtime
- Drawings: KCAP with K+H
- Collaborators
- Climate engineer: Transsolar KlimaEngineering
- Façade consultants: PML Lange
- Structural design and building physics: WTM Engineers
- Publications
- 24 Hamburg
- A as Architecture
- Afasia Archzine
- Architectenweb
- architektur international
- Architekturblatt
- Baunetz
- e-architect.com
- Frankfurther Allgemeine Zeitung
- GermanArchitects.com
- Global Construction Review
- Hamburger Abendblatt
- Hamburg Magazin
- IZ.de
- NOZ
- SHZ.de
- Stedebouw & Architectuur
- The World News
- ubm-development
- Welt