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Hans Kollhoff is a renowned German architect and professor known for his postmodern and new classical architecture. Some of his notable projects include the Piraeus apartment building in Amsterdam, which influenced housing design in Europe, and the Daimler Chrysler High-rise Building in Berlin, demonstrating the continued relevance of early 20th century American skyscrapers. Kollhoff's architecture is characterized by a classical style using traditional materials like stone and brick.

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Ar. Hans Holf

Hans Kollhoff is a renowned German architect and professor known for his postmodern and new classical architecture. Some of his notable projects include the Piraeus apartment building in Amsterdam, which influenced housing design in Europe, and the Daimler Chrysler High-rise Building in Berlin, demonstrating the continued relevance of early 20th century American skyscrapers. Kollhoff's architecture is characterized by a classical style using traditional materials like stone and brick.

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Hans Kollhoff

German Architect & Professor

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Ar. Hans Kollhoff
Hans Kollhoff :
Hans Kollhoff (born 18 September 1946 in Bad Lobenstein, Thuringia) is
a German architect and professor.
He is a representative of Postmodern and New Classical Architecture, as
well as a protagonist of New Urbanism.

Career:
• Kollhoff began his architecture studies at the University of
Karlsruhe in 1968
• In 1974 Kollhoff studied at the Vienna University of Technology.
• Then with a scholarship from the DAAD to attend Cornell University
• Kollhoff opened his own studio in Berlin in 1978, and since 1984 has
run the studio in partnership with Helga Timmermann.
• Until 1985, he was an assistant at the HdK (Berlin University of the
Arts), and until 2012, Kollhoff was Professor of Architecture and
Construction at the ETH Zürich.
• He has held several guest-professorships both at home and abroad.
His projects as an architect in Germany and Europe span all scales,
from the civic to the residential.
Ar. Hans Kollhoff
Hans Kollhoff :
• Hans Kollhoff takes us through the work of his practice,
characterised by its focus on the reconstruction of the European
city.
• Hans Kollhoff founded his practice in 1978 after completing his
studies at Cornell University, where he studied under Colin Rowe
and Oswald Mathias Ungers.
• Key projects include the monumental Piraeus apartment building in
Amsterdam (1994), which left a lasting legacy on housing design in
Europe, and the Daimler Chrysler High-rise Building in Potsdamer
Platz, Berlin, (2000) which demonstrated the continued relevance
of the language of early twentieth century American skyscrapers to
contemporary needs.
• The Architecture Foundation, in association with the Barbican,
presents Architecture on Stage – a programme of talks by the
world's leading architects.
• Hans Kollhoff's architecture is characterised by a classical building-
style and the use of solid, traditional materials, such as stone and
brick, worked according to traditional methods.
• During his career, Kollhoff has developed in the direction of a more
and more traditional form, often using classical motifs.
PROJECTS
Project done by him:
• The Beisheim Center on the Potsdamer Platz, Berlin
• Kollhoff-Tower at the Berlin
• Dominium in Colonge
• Galerie Roter Turm at the Neumarkt , Chemnitz
• The Statendam in Rotterdam
• The Compagnie in Rotterdam
• Colonel Building in Maastricht
• The JuBi-building in The Hague

The Beisheim Center Galerie Roter Turm


Potsdamer Platz, Berlin Neumarkt, Chemnitz Kollhoff-Tower Potsdamer Platz, Berlin
Redevelopment of Public spaces
Piraeus”, KNSM Eiland, Amsterdam

“Piraeus”, KNSM Eiland, Amsterdam


NL
High-density urban design and housing

• Net density 221 dwellings


per hectare (plus retail)
• Site density 289 dwellings
per hectare (plus retail)
• Height four to nine
storeys
• Architects Hans Kohloff
and Christian Rapp
Built 1989-1994
Piraeus”, KNSM Eiland, Amsterdam
Why “Piraeus” was chosen
• I visited Piraeus in 1995 shortly after it was completed, and again in 2007.
• It is an exemplary building and a rich subject of study.
• In 1995 it felt as though the building had already been there a long time.
Since that time the bright Dutch architecture of the 1980s has faded.
• The “architectural petting zoo” of neighbouring Java Eisland seems a little
neurotic and diffuse.
• Piraeus seemed old when built and hasn’t deteriorated since.
• As soon as it had been completed it was shaping a living neighbourhood
in a new area.
Apartment planning
• The Piraeus building has 56 different apartment layouts within. To quote
Gerald Maccreanor again “and that’s one of the things that makes this
building so successful.
• The building seems to house all the differences you find in the street, and
this variety makes it part of the street, and a part of the city”.
• Level accessible apartments are thoughtfully placed in the less busy
internal street.
• Apartments are served by vertical stairwells, glazed façade corridors and
external gallery circulation.
Piraeus”, KNSM Eiland, Amsterdam

Open space and landscape:


• The harbour is the landscape. The main street has a regular
avenue of trees.
• The southern courtyard is not used as occupiable open space;
instead it provides separation and a green aspect.
Environmental:
• The block is sculpted to improve solar access.
• The buildings to the dockside are lower and roofs are angled
allowing further solar access to the courtyard facade of the tall
street block.
• The southern courtyard is open to the west and lowered to the
east to permit further solar access.
• All apartments are dual aspect and no more than twelve metres
deep, permitting cross ventilation.
• Apartment balconies can be closed with bi-fold glazed windows
providing an outdoor space adaptable for windy and wintry
conditions.
Piraeus”, KNSM Eiland, Amsterdam
Materials and architectonics
• The building is made of sober, traditional, durable materials and
standardized elements.
• Raw brick is the traditional building material of the muddy
Netherlands and Amsterdam in particular, but was an
unconventional choice in the1990s.

Steel framed
• bi-fold windows give the building a 19th century industrial
appearance. The fragile, human scaled slender framing and small
glass panes are a counterpoint to the expanses of brickwork.
• It is currently not possible to use this type of glazing as part of a
facade because it does not comply with insulation requirements.
• The architects have instead employed it as an additional layer of
environmental protection; making a façade that sits comfortably in
its historical dockland setting.
Steel is also used in large paving panels in the internal street and in
the suspended operable steel fire escape.
Detail, colour, variation and texture reserved for the entrance points
of the building where people touch and use it.
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Redevelopment of Public spaces


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