BRICKS BERLIN SCHÖNEBERG

BRICKS BERLIN SCHÖNEBERG total of 128 new apartments, 107 on the Hauptstrasse and 21 on the Belzigerstrasse, along with 35 commercial units for offices, retail and restaurants, as well as a primary school, spaces for the university, a taekwondo school and Kabbalah Centre. The Kabbalah Centre was completed in 2015 and occupies a 7.5m-high space on the third floor that originally served as a telegraph switching exchange. GRAFT’s concept translates one of the central ideas of the teaching of Kabbalah – gradual perception as spatial development along a path – and interconnects all the space from the entrance up to a flexible lecture hall and a generous staircase to a second level that appears to float freely inside the hall. A giant mirror on the rear wall, visually extends the space, the reflected rhythm of the arches causing the space to appear twice as deep.