Am Lokdepot is a cluster of new housing units. All are part of a brownfield conversion near the southern end of Gleisdreieck Park. The existing technical monument harking became the focal point of departure for the new residential project. The old depot building provided an opportunity to reject the current fetish in building for sleek surfaces for a more spatial and structural approach to both substructure and facade.Three building types S, M, L on a variety of plot sizes generate various types of apartments. There are small, one-roomed units (S). Other flats (M) stretch across an entire floor with a central elevator and external fire escape that doubles up as acommunal access space. and flats grouped around a one-and-a-half floor greenhouse (L). An 8 metres-high base mediates between the different levels of the new section and the former rail track site. It accommodates commercial usages and provides a contrast to the depot opposite.

With Lokdepot we have attempted to make use of the potential of the situation as found to provide one answer to the current crisis of architecture: Providing an architecture that is distinct, and yet links to its context in a matter-of-fact sort of way; architecture expressed in the materials used, which will age gracefully; architecture that finds a balance between communal aspirations and individualisation, between public and private.