Building Portrait: R50, ifau und Jesko Fezer + Heide & Von Beckerath

PLANE-SITE was invited to curate and produce a panel entitled "Housing as a Matter of Fact" as part of the World Architecture Festival in Berlin in November 2016. We visited four innovative projects to interview the residents and observe their lived experience at home within experimental architecture. By using video as a platform, we hoped to afford them the opportunity to relate their experiences, unscripted, in their own words, within the context of their own radical homes.
R50, designed by ifau und Jesko Fezer with Heide & von Beckerath, is one of Berlin’s most remarkable Baugruppe projects, promoting both participatory planning and collective decision-making. The residents of R50, guided by the architects, designed a building that would foster a strong sense of community. With a unifying balcony that connects all the units and creates a wrap-around exterior walkway and various shared spaces throughout the building, such as the rooftop garden, the residents are completely immersed in their shared environment.
Videographer: Michael Waldrep, for PLANE-SITE
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