KoolKiel Tower_ 쿨키엘 타워

독일 북부 항구도시 킬의 다기능 복합건물,

패턴화된 매스 조합과 입체적인 공간 조합이 돋보여...

쿨키엘 타워는 독일 북부 슐레스비히홀슈타인 주의 주도인 발트해의 항만도시 킬에 계획한 복합타워이다. 피요르 최남단 산업지역에 65,000㎡ 규모로 들어선 건물은 호텔+오피스+하우징+상업공간을 절묘하게 결합한 다기능 복합타워이다. 킬의 도시 구획으로 재개발하는 현장에 대한 설계를 맡은 MVRDV측은 단지를 계획하면서 유연한 설계 시스템을 적용했다.

250개의 객실을 갖춘 호텔 타워는 긴 수직적 매스에서 매스의 일부가 캔틸레버로 돌출되어 나오는 특이한 형태를 자아낸다. 격자형 패턴으로 다양한 오브제를 엮어 표현한 다이내믹한 외관은 물론 내부의 풍부하면서도 다채로운 경관성을 이끌어 내주고 있다. 특별한 파사드를 구성하는 섬유 강화 콘크리트 패널로 창과 문, 조경, 경관 등의 요소를 모티브로 엮어낸 창의적인 결과물이다. 밤이 되면 다양한 패턴을 통해 새어 나오는 조명을 통해 건물은 더욱 입체감 있게 다가온다.

도로와 면한 단지를 따라 2개의 직방형 매스로 구획한 저층 하우징 모듈은 내부의 면적에 따라 다양한 지붕 매스를 형성한다. 건물의 매스 중간 중간은 비워져 있고 안뜰 상부는 상부 브리지로 서로 연결된다. 각 층의 옥상 공원은 안뜰과 계단과 브리지로 자연스럽게 연결된다. 저층 주거 블록 후면을 채우고 있는 댄싱 큐브는 사무실과 상점을 포함한 기단부로 타워와 연속되며, 상부에는 3개의 서로 다른 방향성을 가진 매스를 올린 형상이다. MVRDV의 공동창업자인 야콥 판 레이스(Jacob van Rijs)는 “쿨키엘 타워는 역동적이고 창의적인 커뮤니티를 형성하며 수요자의 요구를 충분히 수용하고 있다”고 밝혔다.

김정연 기자

Architect_ MVRDV, Principal-in-charge_ Jacob van Rijs

MVRDV´s “KoolKiel” Will Redevelop a City Block Using a Progressive Approach to Participation and Flexibility MVRDV has been selected as the designer of a 65,000-square-metre mixed-use complex that will redevelop a post-industrial site in Kiel, Germany. The proposal, which includes a hotel, offices, residences, commercial space, and an event space, makes use of a flexible design system, rather than a fixed and unchangeable plan, allowing the design to adapt easily to the needs and desires of the community as the design development progresses. Dubbed “KoolKiel”, the proposal is located in a formerly industrial area in Kiel, near the southernmost tip of the Kiel Fjord. Currently it is occupied by a large, single-storey building, which was originally used for storing chains for ships; however, in more recent times this location has become more notable for its connection to Germany’s famous Werner comics, which were printed in the building from the early 1980s. The building is now known as W8 Medienzentrum, and is home to a variety of companies working mostly(but not exclusively) in media and the creative industries.

This collection of tenants has given the area a unique and charismatic identity, which strongly influenced MVRDV’s subsequent design. The proposal calls to retain the existing structure of the W8 Medienzentrum as commercial units, topping it with apartments. Next to this, a new building is proposed with a zig-zagging plinth containing offices and shops, topped by several cubic blocks of housing, and a small tower of office spaces. At the end of the site, a 250-room hotel tower connects to the aforementioned plinth through a public event space, which will be used to host exhibitions and events organised by the community.

Lively exterior spaces are key to the project: a courtyard between the buildings filled with a variety of street furniture for the residents to occupy, while a rooftop park snakes its way around the three cubic blocks of housing. The project’s most eye-catching element is the façade panels, made from fibre reinforced concrete, which sit in front of the window and display a variety of icons inspired by the creative output of the locals. However, within this arrangement, the design proposal includes many opportunities for community input. By considering the design not as a fixed concept but as a flexible system, the building as it is eventually constructed might fall anywhere on a spectrum of options, from a conservative series of boxes to a wacky yet charismatic collection of cantilevers and iconography. This flexible design system includes options to change the size and number of cantilevers on the hotel tower(with the option to have no cantilevers also available), to change how much of the building is covered by pictographic panels, and to alter the size, number, and layout of apartments placed above the existing W8 building. “In a location with such a dynamic and creative existing community, it’s obvious that the community should have a say in this development,” said Jacob van Rijs, principal and cofounder of MVRDV. “KoolKiel is not only inspired by them, but it also allows them to tailor the proposal to their wishes—we’re presenting them with not just a design, but also a question: ‘how ‘Kool’ do you want it?’”

Architect: MVRDV

Principal-in-charge: Jacob van Rijs

Design Team: Philipp Kramer, Bartlomiej Markowski, Ruggero Buffo, Bartosz Karasinski, Christine Sohar, Daniel Mayer, and Eleonora Lattanzi Visualization: Antonio Luca Coco, Luca Piattelli, Masoud Khodadadi Images: © MVRDV

Location: Kiel, Germany

Client: Kap Horn GmbH

Client Spokesperson: Ralph Müller-Beck, Staatssekretär a.D./ State Secretary(ret.)

Size & Program: ca. 65,000sqm(Hotel, Office, Event, Restaurants, Shops, Housing, Collaborative Offices)

Partners_ Structure: Werner Sobek

Fire: Wenzel + Wenzel

Cost calculation: Wenzel + Wenzel