Thyssen Krupp World, Essen - Germany [Competition, 2006]

The ThyssenKrupp Quarter meets a large urban park and a building together. The clear structure is broken down in the confrontation with ThyssenKrupp tradition, and the clarity of linear workflows and processes. The public effective functions of the space program, the Headquarter, the multi-functional building and the hotel which occupy prominent positions within the district. With this outstanding frame of the Plaza, the three urban buildings. The compact form of large leaves the existing landscape utmost share the park and created by the concentration of parts of the building a strong, identifiable form.
The modularity of the quarter underscores the recognition and the ThyssenKrupp Quarter meets a large urban park and a building together. The clear structure is broken down in the confrontation with ThyssenKrupp tradition, and the clarity of linear workflows and processes. The basic form is stringent as background for a playful, flexible architectural language, which includes the inventory building with a drive without your self up.
The ThyssenKrupp headquarters represented in its filigree materiality, using innovative facades - and building technologies ThyssenKrupp own claim to innovation and sustainability.
The headquarters is on the spacious lobby with the level of ThyssenKrupp World, and assigns the representative of top management facilities around the atrium.
The competition area in the north-south direction passing zoning band receives two pages with contrasted characteristics. During the ensuing area to the east a hard, urban quality receives, on the western part of the land the „soft“ image of a scenic parks. The park is considered generous, green space with open borders and solidified by the middle. The resulting landscape on the screen receives rasterorientierten tree plantations - composed of großkronigen and strictly maintained growing trees - an artificially-theoretical accent and transmits the image to the group Thyssen-Krupp, with its high standards of innovation and sustainability of the park, the tree-laden park Parts to linger and relax during the lunch break, the large open meadow for informal games and sunbathing. A principal from surrounding gesandstrahlten massive stainless steel plates, as well as a fine, internal park road network open the park and connect it with the adjacent Thyssen-Krupp Quarter Quarter and the extension.
A steel „ridge“ of four pedestrian bridges over the „Boulevard“ runs the Thyssen-Krupp Park with the west open spaces.

Architect: M. Stankovic + T. Jortzick [Marina Stankovic Architekten BDA]

Berliner Vorstadt Villas - Potsdam [2009]

Architect: M. Stankovic + T. Jortzick [Marina Stankovic Architekten BDA]

Hotel and Housing Chaussestrasse - Berlin [2008]

The adjacent new development that includes a hotel (Ramada) and a block of condominiums situated behind it closed the street front and gave rise to a double-row development for different uses. Both uses profit from their immediate environment. The hotel profits from its street-ward orientation while the residential development is oriented towards the landscaped interior of the block.
The objective of the infill on the Chausseestr. 121-122 property is to enable users to experience the quality of the property and its depth.
The long front of the southern firewall continues to point out the length of the property. However, it is being landscaped and turned into a vertical garden, becoming a desirable orientation for the new uses of the development.
The space between the street-facing façade and the neighbouring building serves as a passageway and a view axis, exposing the green garden on the fire wall. The passage is particularly perceivable since it is in the line of sight of Schlegelstrasse. The area between the vertical garden and the new building contains the public space that its reaching out to visitors inviting them to enter the property and walk along the ‘Catwalk’. to explore the depth of the property. At the same time, this interspace serves as an access to the hotel, the apartments and the ground-level uses (café, conference hall, possibly gallery etc). The widening of the ‘Catwalk’ in this area leads to patio-like open spaces that will be particularly busy due to the concentration of uses and activities.
The landscaped gable wall is meant to become an attraction and distinctive feature of the property. The vertical garden made up by multiple layers of greening and planting keeps the gable wall green all year. The reference objects on the topic of the “Vertical Garden” reflect a playful approach to the gable wall planting. The conference pavilion roof is also planted, creating a continuum with the vertical garden.

Architect: M. Stankovic + T. Jortzick [Marina Stankovic Architekten BDA]

Gyeonggi-do Jeongok Prehistory Museum - Korea
[International competition, 2006]

The surrounding area is characterized by the overwhelming natural hilly landscape, which inscribes the horizon lines and juxtaposes the agricultural patches of the fields. Contour lines converging at the ridge of this plane, echo and reveal the existence of a geological substratum of the basalt precipice.
The museum building becomes a mediator among the diverse conditions of the site, while marking a new access to the archaeological park, by laying open the layer of basalt. The zone of intervention marks the divide between ridge/field, up/down and archaeological plateau/alluvial plane. Intertwined in the path system of the archaeological park, the basalt line becomes a promenade between sky and ground, heaven and earth – a new place to contemplate and view. Both the basalt precipice and the found prehistoric artefacts are witnesses to the sediments of the site. The museum conciliates between artefact and raw material, nature of building and nature of basalt precipice, archaeological site and the exhibited objects, authentic site and museological narration, inside and outside. In its spatial relationships, the volume is both an enclosed container and yet oriented to the outside. The slit volume establishes a strong relationship to its immediate context by means of panoramic views and in the associations it evokes. Primal and heavy. It elevates itself above the ground, allowing transparency while the landscape to flows through it and articulates the path leading to the plateau.

Architect: M. Stankovic + T. Jortzick [Marina Stankovic Architekten BDA]

Masterplan and Villas Development, Shanghai - China [2007]

Architect: M. Stankovic + T. Jortzick [Marina Stankovic Architekten BDA]

Turkish Embassy, Berlin - Germany [Competition, 2007]

The new building of the embassy and administrative building of the Republic of Turkey occupies a prominent site in the Tiergarten district and represents a „piece of Turkey in Berlin“. This new development gives a confident, progressive image of the Republic of Turkey as a country aware of its cultural roots and able to demonstrate it. It represents a modern and European Turkey that functions as a transcontinental link between Occident and Orient while being conscious of its own history and tradition.
The new building ranks as a solitaire among the other embassy buildings along the Tiergarten Street, occupying a traditional embassy location in the city and contributing to the revival of this historic diplomatic district.
The properties located between Landwehr canal and Tiergarten create a special zone on the edge of the Tiergarten, separated from the city by the canal and profiting from the generosity of the Tiergarten layout.
At the same time, the edge of the Tiergarten is defined by the typology of the city villa, forming an urban edge.
The embassy acts as a self-reliant block of harmony inserted in the originally neo-classical building stock along the edge of the Tiergarten. As a solitary building, it has its own story to tell. Despite its compact volume, the building opens up to the surrounding area in order to take advantage of the exclusive location and to convey an image of openness to the outside world.

Architect: M. Stankovic + T. Jortzick [Marina Stankovic Architekten BDA]

International Weiterbildung- und Entwicklungszentrum Zschortau (InWEnt), Leipzig - Germany [Competition, 2008]

Architect: M. Stankovic + T. Jortzick [Marina Stankovic Architekten BDA]

New House of Representatives, City of Berlin [1996]

Renovation and extension of the former Prussian Parliament building, including a historic façade restoration. This historic heritage building and landmark houses the new House of Representatives for the City of Berlin. The core of the renovation included the Plenary Assembly Room, office space for the legislators, the library, the various parties’ conference rooms, the casino and the canteen. An extension includes additional office space of the parliament.
During the period of the divided city, the House of Representatives of West Berlin was temporarily located in the city district of Schöneberg. With the fall of the Wall, this location became obsolete. The Parliament decided to reoccupy the building of the former Prussian Parliament in Berlin-Mitte. The building was part of the ensemble of Göring´s Luftfahrt Ministry during the Third Reich. It had also been used as office space for the House of Ministries during the East German period. Thus the building is an important reminder of the complex history of both the city of Berlin and of Germany.
The renovation plan resulted from a careful reading of the building, originally designed by architect Schultze. Much like an archeological site, rules were established that would retain and ensure the visibility of the various layers of the history of the building. The intervention relates dialectically to the previous layers of occupancy and is designed to contrast the architectures of the past. A “historical promenade”, supported by the necessary functions, leads the visitors through the building and into the main assembly space.
The Plenary Assembly space is conceived as a “room within a room”. This allows for the walls to be interpreted exactly as they were discovered. The infill construction is composed of a primary steel structure - independent of its containing walls - and layered with acoustical panels and reflectors, which create the new assembly space for the plenary sessions. The transition between the various layers, from historical to contemporary, can be experienced in various aspects of the renovation. The principle of `layering´ defines the architectural language which is carried through all the areas of the building. The implemented materiality is a result of the conceptual attitude that is carried through to the project detailing.
In contrast to the architecture of Schultze and the other previous renovations, each expressing a single period and style, the project portrays a clear and pure language that is able to coexist with and respond to the existing architectures, building on them respectfully, yet adding a unique voice and expression.

Architect: M. Stankovic [Rave Krüger Stankovic Architekten BDA]

FKN Corporate Headquarters - Neuenstein, Germany [2002]

The FKN‘s headquarters expansion is located on a site along the main road into the historical town of Neuenstein, in the region of Baden-Württemberg. A context-specific stone wall delineates the site, leads to the level of the yard space, which is elevated in respect to the latter. The original building was obsolete in its form and architectural language; therefore the design team pursued the strategy of creating a new building and grouping it tighter with the other structures around the production courtyard. The expansion is linked to the existing administrative building by a glassed-in bridge which allows a functioning connection between the two administrative office areas. The new building contains office spaces and assembly room, comprising 1,800 sq.m. of usable space. The ground floor is accessed from the court, transforming the basement level to a fully-usable floor with natural light and an orientation to the street. In contrast to the office building’s three-story volume, the one-story glass design of the entrance pavilion creates a high, airy space with a gallery. The glass pavilion offers a view on to the gentle hilly slopes of the region. In the interior, space been designed with flexible partition walls to allow for future changes in the number and size of office. The interior of the entrance pavilion is in exposed concrete showing the basic construction of the building.The materials and their detailing speaks a minimal and clean language.

Architect: M. Stankovic [Stankovic+Bonnen Architekten BDA]

Nam June Paik Art Center, Suwon - Korea
[International Competition 2003, 1st Price. Completion 2008]

The design of the NJP Art Center aims to be an homage to the oeuvre of the artist.The work of Paik addresses the ongoing evolution and perception of our world in a playful manner, necessitating a flexible museum exhibition space that allows for experimentation. The NJP Art Center fills in the existing valleys of the museum’s park by spanning a grid roof structure over them. The appropriated space below the roof - the "petrified topography" - becomes part of the exhibition space of the museum. The tension between the Cartesian structure and the amorphous topography contributes to the identity of the museum.
The ideal of the "matrix" regulates the various aspects of the museum such as the museum space, the roof structure and the undulating floor, allowing for the necessary functions and flexibility, always relating to each other and creating not an object building but a rather perfect instrument for exhibiting. Cut-outs in the roof create a relationship to the landscape and manifest the continuity of the topography from the inside to the outside and vice versa.
Light, or its careful manipulation, plays a very important role in articulating the space within the main museum hall: Indirect and reflected light not only organises the space but also directs the visitors through it. A characteristic of the museum is its screen facade consisting of several layers of partly printed glass with different degrees of reflection. The façade becomes an instrument for controlling the volume and quality of permeating light, in this particular museum that exhibits luminous objects of art.
The NJP museum’s idea is born from the site and rooted in the particular park landscape of Suwon.
The design of the NJP museum applies the same methodology of approach as did Nam June Paik in his work and aims to be an homage to the artist.

Architect: M. Stankovic + T. Jortzick
[KSMS Schemel Stankovic, Ges. v. Architekten mbH]