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- Architects: RKW Architektur +
- Location: Liebrechtstraße, 45277 Essen, Germany
- Area: 4210.0 m2
- Project Year: 2018
- Photographs: Marcus Pietrek
- Project Management: Tobias Bünemann, Silke Lange
- Project Team: Thomas Zimmer, Anne van Loh
- Construction Management: REICHEL Ingenieurgesellschaft für
- Projekt Management: mbH, Erkrath-Düsseldorf
- Structural Analysis: R&P Ruffert Ingenieurgesellschaft mbH, Limburg
- Fire Safety: BSCON Brandschutzconsult GmbH, Essen
- Technical Building Systems: Ingenieurbüro Blasczok, Düsseldorf
- Building Physics: Ingenieurbüro Blasczok, Düsseldorf
- Landscape Architecture: Raitz von Frentz und Tilosen, Krefeld-Linn
- Client: City of Essen
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Text description provided by the architects. In Essen (Germany) the last two blocks of a homeless shelter were handed over to the users in 2018. The three clearly structured, parallel buildings characterised by exposed concrete and sky-blue glazed bricks are the result of an invitation to tender issued by the City of Essen.
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Ground floor plan
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What was sought were new buildings for a homeless shelter for 119 people, as well as office space for 2 social workers and 2 housing administrators. RKW Architektur + won the public tender with its modular concept. Despite or precisely because of the tight budget, the architects were able to deliver a complex of noticeable architectural quality.
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