Supertype group

PHYTOTYPES GREEN & SYMBIOTIC HOUSING INFRASTRUCTURES Master & M-Arch T Design Studio IfA TU Berlin Teaching: Tobias Schrammek OPEN STUDIO April 08, 2pm, A512 As cities continue to overheat, climate resilience demands a fundamental reconsideration of its constituent parts. Rather than treating buildings as static and isolated objects, this studio asks how architecture—besides housing humans—might operate as an ecological infrastructure capable of hosting, supporting, and interacting with plants. Despite the growing presence of greenery in contemporary architecture, plants are often reduced to an ornamental layer or used to conceal conventional and environmentally problematic construction practices. In such cases, they function less as agents than as instruments of architectural greenwashing. Yet plants possess significant environmental and programmatic capacities: through evaporation and transpiration, shading, carbon sequestration, and water retention they regulate microclimates, while simultaneously producing social and ecological value—from cultivation and food production to psychological well-being and urban biodiversity. This studio explores how plants and vegetation can become integral parameters of architectural design. It investigates their potentially mutually beneficial relationships with architecture across programmatic, systemic, and structural dimensions. On the one hand, the studio raises the question of how buildings can act as potential symbiotic habitats in which human and plant life coexist; on the other, it asks how architecture can be sensitively embedded within existing vegetation systems. Cooperations: - Chair for Urban Ecosystems (PIV) - Chair for Plant Ecology - Chair for Vegetation Technology and Plant Use

Taller participativo con el equipo y los profes de la Fundación Oasis Urbano para soñar y desarrollar los diferentes pisos y espacios de la Escuela Popular Moravia. Proceso colaborativo entre @supertypegroup y @fundacionoasisurbano Participatory workshop with the Oasis Urbano team and teachers to imagine and develop the different floors and spaces of the Escuela Popular Moravia. A collaborative process between @supertypegroup and @fundacionoasisurbano Gracias al equipo: @lasdeliciasdecleyda @dubimonsalve @mamachila_accesorios @amholguin2015 @lince7aa @ttmm_jj @maex.baex The collaborative design process is possible thanks to our wonderful partner @rearc.institute Special thanks to @ksenia_bazarevich , who collaborated with us 2 years ago to develop the 1:20 scale model, which proved to be the perfect tool for the workshop!

El estudio de arquitectura Supertype Group, de Berlín (Alemania), invita a la presentación de sus proyectos arquitectónicos y procesos de investigación, desarrollados con estudiantes de la Universidad Técnica de Berlín. Además, se expone y debate el proyecto actual «Escuela Popular Moravia», en colaboración con la Fundación Oasis Urbano de Medellín. Viernes 20 de marzo 2026, 5:30pm Casa Andina, Laureles, Medellín Entrada libre hasta completar el aforo. Informaciones e inscripciones: [email protected]

Last month, I spent time with my long-term friends from the architecture studio @supertypegroup looking at the financial side of their practice. Like many creative studios, they create high impact work with limited resources (they’re even nominees for the German Architecture Prize this year! 😱). But the unpredictable rhythm of architecture projects and the complexity of coordinating with external partners are real challenges. Having your financial numbers in order isn’t just helpful—it’s essential! Throughout the workshop we looked at different aspects of their business and pinned who takes the lead in which area—particularly important in their three-person founding team. My favorite part is always that moment when everything clicks (‘AHA!’) and people see how these seemingly annoying structures and processes actually create space for more creativity, not less. Try it, it’s cozy here! 😌

Late update, good news: Wintergarden House won an award at the German Architecture Prize, and we are very happy!! Huge thank you to everyone involved Structural engineering @bls_engineer Timber fabrication @bioholzhaus Timber assembly @zimmerei_feuerbach Metal work @ms_treppen To Alexandra the best client we could wish for And thank you @__hb_a__ for recommending us

Transformation of an old stable building in Spreewald The conversion of a vacant stable building in the Spreewald region into a residential house centers on developing an ecological building metabolism that integrates natural resources such as sunlight, rain, wind, and geothermal energy into the house’s supply system. A flexible spatial configuration enables the building to adapt to both changing climatic and social conditions. Two internal gardens function as climate-active thermal buffer zones and can either separate or connect three residential units, which are heated via thermally activated domestic elements. Within the intermediate green spaces that link the interior with the surrounding landscape, the original structure remains untouched preserving the historical character of the building. —— Der Umbau eines leerstehenden Stallgebäudes im Spreewald zu einem Wohnhaus konzentriert sich auf die Entwicklung eines ökologischen Gebäudemetabolismus, der natürliche Ressourcen wie Sonnenlicht, Regen, Wind und Erdwärme in das Versorgungssystem des Hauses integriert. Eine flexible Raumkonfiguration ermöglicht es, sich sowohl an veränderte klimatische als auch soziale Bedingungen anzupassen. Zwei innenliegende Gärten dienen als klimaaktive thermische Pufferzonen und können die drei Wohneinheiten entweder voneinander trennen oder miteinander verbinden. Diese werden über thermisch aktivierte Objekte beheizt. In den grünen Zwischenräumen, die den Innenraum mit der Landschaft verbinden, bleibt die ursprüngliche Bausubstanz unangetastet und so der historische Charakter des Gebäudes bewahrt.

Sie verstehen sich zwar als fluides Team, das projektbezogen mit verschiedenen Partner*innen kooperiert. Doch zum Kernteam der Supertype Group gehören Max Becker, Pia Brückner und Tobias Schrammek. In Deutschland machte das Studio mit einem Wintergartenhaus auf sich aufmerksam – ein Manifest-Projekt, das architektonische Haltung mit technischem Know-How vereint und in ein kleines tropisches Paradies verwandeln kann. Wir schauten hinter die Kulissen und erfuhren mehr über das Gestaltungscredo und die Gründungsgeschichte des Berliner Trios. Mehr über Supertype Group erfahrt ihr auf . Link in Bio. ___ They see themselves as a fluid team that cooperates with various partners on a project-by-project basis. However, the core team of the Supertype Group includes Max Becker, Pia Brückner and Tobias Schrammek. The studio made a name for itself in Germany with a conservatory house - a manifesto project that combines architectural attitude with technical expertise and can be transformed into a small tropical paradise. We took a look behind the scenes and learnt more about the Berlin trio's design credo and founding history. Find out more about Supertype Group at . Link in bio. ___ Bild 1-3: Marina Hoppmann Bild 4: Ruben Beilby Bild 5: Tobias Schrammek Bild 6-10: Supertype Group . . . . . #tropen #anbau #umbau #greenhouse #loggia #addition #gewächshaus #klima #konzept #concept #climate #construction #arch #architektur #architecture #konstruktion #neugier #wohnen #leben #bestand #system #outofthebox #studio #studiounderconstruction #baunetz #baunetzcampus

Winter Garden House nominated for DAM Preis 2026 🍒 Yuhuu! Photo by @ruben.beilby

In cooperation with @fundacionoasisurbano we are currently working on our design proposal for the Escuela Popular Moravia. Following the acquisition of a corner plot in the heart of Moravia next to a small public park in 2022, the programmatic foundations of the Escuela Popular, a culture and education center, were negotiated with various public and private actors. By applying easily reproducible design principles we aim to develop prototypical solutions which could be adapted elsewhere in the neighborhood. Following a structure infill approach, the open floors, accessed from the outside over a public circulation zone, can be variably built out and appropriated by its users. Historically strongly anchored in the neighborhood, recycling and reuse will be core aspects of the material concept. The thematization of the building infrastructure through the use of low tech means for climate regulation, solar energy and rainwater is another educational aspect of the design. —— In Zusammenarbeit mit @fundacionoasisurbano arbeiten wir an unserem Gestaltungsvorschlag für die Escuela Popular Moravia. Nach dem Erwerb eines Eckgrundstücks im Herzen von Moravia neben einem kleinen öffentlichen Park im Jahr 2022 wurden die programmatischen Grundlagen für die Escuela Popular, ein Kultur- und Bildungszentrum, mit verschiedenen öffentlichen und privaten Akteuren verhandelt. Durch die Anwendung leicht reproduzierbarer Gestaltungsprinzipien sollen prototypische Lösungen entwickelt werden, die auch an anderer Stelle in der Nachbarschaft adaptiert werden können. Die offenen Geschosse, die von außen über eine öffentliche Zone erschlossen werden, können nach dem Struktur-Ausbau-Prinzip variabel ausgebaut und von den Nutzer*innen angeeignet werden. Historisch stark im Quartier verankert, werden Recycling und Wiederverwendung zentrale Aspekte des Materialkonzepts sein. Die Thematisierung der Gebäudeinfrastruktur durch den Einsatz von Low-Tech-Strategien zur Klimaregulierung, Solarenergie und Regenwasser ist ein weiterer pädagogischer Aspekt des Entwurfs.

STUDIO FINALS ECOTOPIA 2034 Join us next Thursday February 13th at the Institute for Architecture of TU Berlin at Ernst-Reuter-Platz for our finals of the design studio Ecotopia 2034. The studio critically revisited the transformative ideas for ecology and solidarity from IBA ‘84 as well as from the international eco-movement and experimentally translated the findings to the contemporary context of former GDR modernist mass housing neighborhoods for the future IBA ‘34. Focusing on the socio-political challenges as well as on their systemic potentials, the studio aimed at the development of diverse strategies for the transformation of the repetitive, rigid and anonymized blocks into a solidary, adaptive and hybrid eco-typology. In a comparative approach the studio examined the same type in a rural (Premnitz, Brandenburg) as well as in an urban context (Marzahn, Berlin). Besides questions of ownership, governance and collectivity, the studio intensively investigated the integration of the building metabolism (water, energy, heating, waste) in the architecture, it's performance and the sorrounding eco-systems. Teaching: Tobias Schrammek, Nanni Grau Collaborators: Alejandro Orduz Trujillo (Chair for Landscape Design in the Anthropocene), Paul van der Kuil (Chair for Architecture Economics), Sebastian Wagner (@weltenverbinden ), Cornelia Freiheit (DEGEWO). Guests: Tanja Lincke (@tanjalinckearchitekten )

Moravia is an informal neighbourhood in Medellín, Colombia, founded in the 1960s by displaced families on the city’s landfill. People from all over the country created a new, diverse community based on the reuse and recycling of waste materials. For many years, Moravia was characterised by poverty, precarious living conditions and violence, but has undergone an impressive transformation process over the last two decades thanks to the tireless efforts of the community and the integral urban interventions of Social Urbanism. Today, with 50,000 inhabitants in half a square kilometre, Moravia is one of the most densely populated neighbourhoods in the country, a safe and colourful labyrinth of three- to five-storey houses with a thriving micro-economy and great ethnic and cultural diversity. Long stigmatised, the Moravitas are now proud of their neighbourhood and its history of change. Once founded in the periphery, Moravia is now in the middle of the city as a result of rural exodus and rapid urbanisation. This strategic location leads to urban renovation plans that threaten the future of Moravia. The Medellín and Berlin based collective Oasis Urbano @fundacionoasisurbano has been working in this extraordinary neighbourhood since 2017. They develop educational and cultural programmes for the community as well as participatory design processes to create urban and artistic intervention projects in public spaces, such as pocket parks, plazas, community gardens, public staircases, to name but a few. Co-produced with the community, these projects build on local potential and improve the quality of life of the neighbourhood. In 2022, the foundation acquired a single-storey house in Moravia as its new headquarters. In order to provide more space and spatial diversity for the wide range of educational and community activities, we are developing a new four-storey cultural centre through a collaboration between Oasis Urbano and Supertype Group. Viva Moravia 🤍

Escuela Popular Moravia Very happy about the publication of the result of 8 years of hard work and dedication by our friends from @fundacionoasisurbano in the new Arch+ 258 Urbane Praxis (Urban Practice). The foundation focuses on the social urban transformation of Moravia, an informal neighborhood in Medellín, Colombia. The project startet with the initiative of three architecture students and committed local residents and has meanwhile grown into a professional multicultural foundation that organizes various educational programs, workshops and events. The foundation is also active in interdisciplinary urban research and education and has realized several interventions that improve the spatial quality of the neighborhood. In 2023 the foundation managed to buy a lot on which the Escuela Popular, a self organized community and education center, will be built in order to expand and sustain their activities. We are thrilled about the collaboration and proud to show our design as a future part of this marvellous project! ------ Wir freuen uns über die Veröffentlichung der Ergebnisse von 8 Jahren harter Arbeit und Engagement unserer Freund*innen von @fundacionoasisurbano in der neuen Arch+ 258 Urbane Praxis. Die Stiftung konzentriert sich auf die soziale urbane Transformation von Moravia, einem informellen Viertel in Medellín, Kolumbien. Das Projekt begann mit der Initiative von drei Architekturstudierenden und engagierten Bewohner*innen und ist inzwischen zu einer professionellen multikulturellen Stiftung herangewachsen, die verschiedene Bildungsprogramme, Workshops und Events organisiert. Die Stiftung ist zudem in der interdisziplinären Stadtforschung und Lehre tätig und hat mehrere Interventionen zur Verbesserung der räumlichen Qualität des Viertels realisiert. Im Jahr 2023 ist es der Stiftung gelungen, ein kleines Grundstück zu kaufen, auf dem die Escuela Popular, ein selbstorganisiertes Gemeinschafts- und Bildungszentrum, gebaut werden soll, welches ihre Aktivitäten im Viertel konsolidieren und ausbauen soll. Wir sind dankbar für die Zusammenarbeit und freuen uns dieses großartige Projekt mit unserem Entwurf unterstützen zu können!