An der Alster 1 | J. Mayer H. Architects

An der Alster 1

The building site is situated at the intersection between the Hamburg’s lively downtown and its urban landscape rich in water and mature trees. It is at the transition from city to nature, and the gateway building to the bustling metropolitan core.

The horizontal striped facade with its floating ‘eyes’ celebrates the view onto this unique context. A public park in front of the building continues the design strategy of the facade into the landscape. The ‘eyes’ in the facade and the platforms in the park form places to meet and contemplate.

The office spaces serve both a generic spatial layout and specific moments related to the ‘eyes’. Large spans provide for various office layout configurations in combination with balconies and climatically tempered outdoor spaces of the ‘eyes’.

The office building ‘An der Alster 1’ links interior and exterior spaces to the public park in front of the building and to the city context of Hamburg, becoming a new anchor at the prestigious Aussenalster waterfront.

Project Info
Architects: J. Mayer H. Architects
J. MAYER H. Project Team: Juergen Mayer H., Hans Schneider, Wilko Hoffmann, Andre Santer, Sebastian Finckh, Marta Ramírez Iglesias, Georg Schmidthals, Marcus Blum
J. MAYER H. Competition Team: Juergen Mayer H., Jan-Christoph Stockebrand, Marcus Blum, Klaus Küppers, Hans Schneider
Location: Hamburg, Germany

Architect on Site: Imhotep, Donachie und Blomeyer, Architekturbuero Franke
Structural Engineers: Lydia Thiesemann, CBP
Building Services: Energiehaus, Sineplan
Light Engineers: Andres – Lichtplanung
Landscape Architects: Breimann & Bruun
Photographer: fotografieSchaulin, Dirk Fellenberg

Client: Cogiton Projekt Alster GmbH, Hamburg
Area: 5436.0 sqm
Year: 2007
Type: Office Building