The Education and Meeting Centre is an open house that offers localized activities to the social environment of Moabit. As a communications platform aimed at developing social awareness
through the direct, hands-on integration of experts, politicians and the general public, its influence radiates far beyond its immediate environment. It is a venue that sends a strong message of acceptance and mutual respect while providing a safe place for education and training to help people take an active part in the shaping of society.
The house is enabling diverse forms of inclusion as consultation rooms, a training restaurant, a vocational school and inclusive hotel management training company with 28 accommodation rooms rooms. Management and administration offices, a conference center as well as a “city balcony” with attached bar complete the model-wide, society-wide claim of the non-profit house. The supporting structure is a skeleton construction in reinforced concrete. The facades were constructed on the ground and 1st floors as a fully glazed mullion and transom facade, on the remaining floors as perforated facades in timber panel construction. The second facade level made of PTFE-coated glass fabric reduces the thermal load on the building.
The “Embassy for Children” is designed to be a visible place for this process of integration and struggle for social participation.