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MUNICH, GERMANY BUILDING


PROJECTS WERK12


Statement architecture


An award-winning mixed-use project in Munich features 5 metre high LED lettering and an industrially-inspired design that reflects the site’s heritage. Jonathan Schuster, project leader at MVRDV, speaks to Jack Wooler


largest city, designed by MVRDV with playful incorporation of references to comic strips and graffiti – in statement 5-metre tall letters across its facade. The project, say the architects, “forms the nucleus” of the Werksviertel-Mitte district – an urban regeneration plan on a former industrial site. Close to Munich’s East Station, the 7,700 m2


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Kultfabrik nightlife zone brings new restaurants, bars and offices, as well as a three-storey gym with a pool, to the area. This “legendary entertainment district,” in the words of MVRDV founding partner Jacob van Rijs, is on the site of a former potato factory, and has been transformed in recent decades.


Conceived in 2014 and completed in 2019, WERK12 celebrates the district’s lively nature while introducing “relevant and contemporary design,” as well as demonstrating an uncommon mixture of functionality and amusement, according to the architects. The latter is particularly found in the building’s expressive ‘art facade,’ featuring quirky expressions. MVRDV’s client, OTEC GmbH, worked together with the architects – alongside another practice, Steidle Architekten – to develop the masterplan for the project. The


ERK12 is a mixed-use office, culture and entertainment complex in Germany’s third-


building was in fact inspired by the iconic Dutch Pavilion Expo 2000 in Hanover, with some of this earlier design re-moulded and ported over to WERK12. Since its opening, this eye-catching project has unsurprisingly received a large amount of attention. It was featured prominently in the German Architecture Yearbook 2021, as well as the being awarded what’s been called the “most prestigious architecture award in Germany,” the DAM Preis 2021.


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Playful expressions Viewing the exterior, WERK12’s design prides itself on simplicity, with a combination of “honest” materials and “transparent” facades. The facade – the most striking feature of the project – is animated by an “urban art piece” developed in tandem with local artists Christian Engelmann and Beate Engl. It comprises bold LED letter forms spelling out well- known expressions taken from the German version of Disney’s Donald Duck comics. At night, the 5-metre tall lettering changes appearance through a programmed illumination allowing “simple geometries to morph into a vibrant light show,” say the architects. The colloquial nature of the expressions chosen for the lettering was a tribute to the city’s graffiti culture, as well as the extensive use of signage previously seen on the site.


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