Architecture for houses, apartments and lofts
Residential & Living
When it comes to planning, designing and building exclusive living spaces, we architects at OOW cover a wide spectrum: from highly individual lofts, tailor-made to the owner’s wishes, to residential buildings with hundreds of units whose efficient floor plans meet the needs of every possible resident. Our style is not set in stone: We listen to our clients – and we design bespoke solutions for high-quality living.
Clinic Expansion and New Hotel Construction
Hotel
R-103
Casa Locarno
Flussbad Campus
Living on Leopoldplatz
Old Post Office Neukölln – Extension
Loft Wedding
A fresh take on the hotel room
7047 // Concrete
Ride Berlin
René Benkos Berlin Residence
Itzel Sanatorium
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Milchhof Carré Ansbach
Lustnau
NoEnergy
we design architecture
OOW is an award-winning Berlin practice designing and delivering buildings and interiors for commercial and housing—focused, bold, assured.
Architectural vision and perfectionist detail work: this is how the transformation from shell to maximum minimalist house succeeds
OOW’s interior design demonstrates the flexibility with which we translate the wishes of our clients and live up to our claim of designing architecture. For example, in Berlin we transformed a building shell into a maximally minimalist and exclusive house: a combination of architectural vision and perfectionist attention to detail. The doors function without any handles and even the walk through the staircase is spectacular as it connects the rooms transparently behind a glass partition. Similarly exciting is the interplay of a vaulted ceiling and a wooden cocoon set in a former factory space in Berlin which was converted into a loft apartment. By the way, the latter is an example of the possibilities of digital fabrication: OOW specifically programmed a script to have the almost one thousand different parts cut to size on a fully automated basis. For projects of this kind, our early, extremely detailed visualisations with different lighting situations really show their strengths: Very early on, the client will know exactly what the space can look like later.
"Optimal floor plan design for large-scale projects is one of our strengths: it allows investors and developers to use scarce space extremely efficiently - and tenants still feel very much at home. This enormously increases lettability - even in locations with weaker demand."
Mathis Malchow, Architect BDA, Founder of OOW
Designing architecture: from Berlin for clients all over the world
Our approach of combining architecture for exclusive and high-quality living with sustainability is exemplified by the sun villa in Ticino – awarded the Green Good Design Award and named one of the ten most sustainable buildings in the world by CNN. The elegant building stands out, not only because of its sky frame (the prefabricated wooden part flown in by helicopter serves as a sunshade). Moreover, the residents can enjoy the breathtaking nature on all sides and protect it at the same time – for example, by means of a practically self-sufficient heating system. That’s just one example of the international projects we design from Berlin. In the Seychelles, for example, we have planned holiday homes with a modern interpretation of a thatched roof: expressive and exclusive architecture that blends into the landscape.
Perfect floor plans for large-scale projects - especially important for micro-apartments
On large-scale projects we play to our strength of planning floor plans so efficiently that investors and developers can make the best possible use of the space while at the same time creating beautifully proportioned flats that are ideal to market and let: from the single apartment to accommodation for the whole family. Perfect floor plan design is especially important for micro-apartments and student housing, one of our areas of focus.
How to combine economic efficiency and beauty is demonstrated by a rental apartment building in Berlins Wedding district. For a neglected commercial plot, we designed a residential oasis surrounded by greenery and featuring efficient apartment floor plans. As a result of our planning, the property owner had the lucrative opportunity to convert six times the area previously used into affordable housing.
