Location
Prenzlauer Berg, Berlin, Germany

Type of Work
Residential / Historic apartment restoration Conserving original craftsmanship while introducing modern comfort: a fractured Altbau plan is opened, technologically upgraded and finished with continuous microcement and restored timber.

Overview
The apartment’s original charm was masked by fragmented rooms and incomplete modernisations. The project sought to reveal and preserve historical elements while expanding spatial flow and updating building systems. 

Our Beginning
Small, compartmentalised rooms and wear on original fabric constrained daylight and use. The brief required a sensitive restoration that would make the plan feel generous without erasing its heritage. 

Key interventions
• Conservative restoration: deep sanding and conservation of original floors and doors to recover wood warmth and grain.
• Bathroom in Ecomar microcement: a continuous, fuga-zero surface visually enlarges a previously compact bathroom.
• Technical upgrade: a full electrical renewal brought the flat to contemporary safety and comfort standards without compromising historic character.
• Spatial optimisation: reflective and continuous materials, together with careful proportioning, turned residual nooks into usable, designed moments. 

Role of the team
Design decisions balanced conservation and intervention; Berliner Bautechnik implemented structural, electrical and finish works to exacting tolerances. The collaboration preserved the apartment’s soul while introducing disciplined modernity. 

Transformation
The result is a quietly generous Altbau interior where restored timber and continuous mineral surfaces coexist. Light, materiality and technical refinement recalibrate the apartment from fragmented to coherent — an example of urban regeneration that honours history while performing for contemporary life.