Apartment Rungestrasse, Transforming part of a former office building from the early 1930s into an apartment we were confronted with the challenge to maintain the spaciousness that its open plan had to offer and refrain from subdividing it into a series of isolated rooms.
© Tobias Wootton
The first architectural element we introduced was therefore a shelf featuring five bays and two levels. Each bay houses an individual environment: an entry zone, a cooking area, a work space, a bathroom, a reading nook, a sleeping loft, ….Meandering around the shelf leads to the bedroom.
© Tobias Wootton
We also introduced three domed lamps three meters in diameter each hanging right above head-height and zoning the remaining open space. Each of them references an architectural precedent: the Pantheon, the “großes Schauspielhaus” and the geodesic dome.
Project Info
Architects:FAR frohn&rojas
Country: Germany, Berlin
Area: 211 m²
Year: 2024
Photographs: Tobias Wootton, Courtesy of FAR frohn&rojas
Project Team: Marc Frohn, Mario Rojas Toledo, Max Koch, Max Lefebvre, Maria Martinez
Isabelle Laurent is a Built Projects Editor at Arch2O, recognized for her editorial insight and passion for contemporary architecture. She holds a Master’s in Architectural Theory from École Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture de Paris-Belleville. Before joining Arch2O in 2016, she worked in a Paris-based architectural office and taught as a faculty adjunct at the École Spéciale d’Architecture in Paris. Isabelle focuses on curating projects around sustainability, adaptive reuse, and urban resilience. With a background in design and communication, she brings clarity to complex ideas and plays a key role in shaping Arch2O’s editorial