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Architecture practice

Practice

Dipl.-Ing. architect Jürgen Wichmann – architecture in Berlin since 1985, at home in Kreuzberg.

Jürgen Wichmann in his office

It all began with careful urban renewal: block reports and concepts for the International Building Exhibition IBA 1987 in Kreuzberg, commissioned by S.T.E.R.N. GmbH. That approach still shapes the work today – taking the existing fabric seriously, drawing out its qualities and building on in a way that lets buildings keep their history.

Four decades of practice have grown from those beginnings: modernisation and refurbishment of Berlin tenement houses – from the Chamissoplatz conservation area to the listed Krumme Lanke forest estate –, loft conversions and roof additions, new buildings from single-family houses to an apartment building with 12 flats, and the ongoing management of residential buildings in Berlin and Lübeck. Jürgen Wichmann is a member of the Berlin Chamber of Architects (member no. 03328).

Drawing table with floor plan in the studio

In the team

Olivera Reuther

Diplom-Ingenieurin of Architecture · Berlin University of the Arts (UdK)

For several years now, Olivera Reuther has strengthened the practice. She combines classic planning practice – floor plan, light, proportion, approvability – with something special: planning according to Vastu Shastra, the millennia-old Indian science of building.

Rooms planned according to Vastu arrange orientation, light and proportion deliberately – around an open, calm centre, following the course of the sun. A house designed with Vastu does not look “Indian”: it looks like a well-designed house – and feels different.

More about Vastu planning at vastu.net

Services

From concept to handover

Design and planning
From the first concept through permit and detailed design to tendering.

Site supervision
Construction management and coordination of the works – including occupied buildings.

Building within existing fabric
Refurbishment, modernisation, loft conversion and heritage-compatible repair – the core focus of the practice.

Reports and concepts
Urban studies, development concepts, renewal-needs assessments and privatisation preparation.

Property management
Ongoing care, maintenance and value preservation of residential buildings in Berlin and Lübeck.

Planning with Vastu
On request, the Vastu tradition informs design and floor plan – with Olivera Reuther (vastu.net).

Planning a project in an existing building?

Refurbishment, conversion, loft conversion or new build – I look forward to your enquiry.

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