The Kiel-Steel-House is part of a new housing development on a former parking lot area in the town center of the city Kiel at the german baltic coast.

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Architects: BLK2 Architects

Location: Jensendamm, 24103 Kiel, Germany

Area: 600.0 m2

Project Year: 2016

Photographs: Ralf Buscher

Other Participants : LRW Architekten und Stadtplaner, Hamburg client: Projektgesellschaft Alte Feuerwache Kiel mbH & Co. KG

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From the architect. The Kiel-Steel-House is part of a new housing development on a former parking lot area in the town center of the city Kiel at the german baltic coast.

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Ground Floor

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Adjacent to the historic house and town museum "Warleberger Hof", the saddle roofing house with two exclusive apartments and a business unit on the ground floor is completely clad with Cortensteel. It forms an independent accent and marks the urban access to the new quarter with multi-family houses, townhouses and a student house.With a cafe on the ground floor, the steel house will become the small center of the new brick district. The saddle roof as a sign of classic, traditional house typology stands for a connecting piece of the quarter with the structure of the old town centre. The steel material, with its rough and industrial characte...