Architecture News Plus (ANP) – Architecture and Design Magazine

Andreas Murkudis Store

This is a project by Gonzalez / Haase / AAS and it is located at Potsdamer Straße, Berlin, Germany. Project's program: Retail store. There are sixteen images for Andreas Murkudis Store.

: © Thomas Meyer / Ostkreuz

Project details

Project name: Andreas Murkudis Store
Location: Potsdamer Straße, Berlin, Germany
Program: Retail store
Area: Project Size: 1000 m2
Year: Completion: 2011
More details: Cost: 500,000 € • Services: Architecture, lighting, furniture
Project by: Gonzalez / Haase / AAS
Team: Principal Designer: Pierre Jorge Gonzalez, Judith Haase • Design Team: Clement Jacobzone, Nicholas Warner
Others: Dry Construction / Painting: Jakov Pahljina • Electric: CKG complexnet • Windows: Timm Fensterbau • Carpentry: Fs Möbelgestaltung GmbH • Metalwork: Vorschub, 8punkt8 • Flooring: Fußbodentechnik Schramm

Project images

Designer's statement

A re-interpretation of the department store.

As department stores use different space identities to recognize different brands or good-types, the AAS proposition would use different topological spaces like the one we can find in a city or in a village.

The former printer space of the Tagesspiegel is composed in two large halls that we can see as an exhibition space but also as an urban site.

The two halls have been cleared-out in the way all architectonic elements remain the only substance of the spaces.

The light is an important element and is just not lighting the goods but the space. The result is a magnified space that also loses all heaviness.

A few objects were carefully placed to articulate views on the goods. These objects work only on a scale that you will not imagine movable. The used material is fibreboard white painted, and is usually linked to building construction.