Office - allmannwappner

allmannwappner is an internationally active office based in Munich and Berlin. More than 150 employees from different nations work in project teams whose composition is geared to the respective planning task.

Our work is multi-faceted and has received numerous awards and accolades. Each of our projects enters into a contextual dialogue with its spatial circumstances. In the process of creation, we seek positions that are based on both aesthetic sensibility and rational, precise structures, and that test design conventions.

With specialists from all relevant disciplines, we ensure the success of excellent architecture at every stage of its creation, in order to develop a distinctive solution within the agreed project framework with the best of all good possibilities. Many more are involved in its genesis: Planning partners, clients, institutions and users. Openness and mutual appreciation characterize our cooperation.

allmannwappner is a participant in the United Nations Global Compact Initiative and supports the Ten Principles of the UN Global Compact in the areas of human rights, labor standards, environmental protection and anti-corruption as well as the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). By supporting the UN Global Compact, we want to show that we assume sustainable and social responsibility in our actions as a company.

Until the end of 2021, the office operated under the name Allmann Sattler Wappner Architekten GmbH.

Expertise

Our range of services includes project planning, climate-friendly design, urban planning, and interior design.

We win and develop our projects through competitions, feasibility studies, master plans and direct contracts. We design and realize office, commercial and industrial buildings, infrastructure projects, cultural and public buildings, trade fair buildings and residential buildings.

Our aim is to realize the maximum potential for climate- and social-friendly architecture in every project. Appropriateness is the key concept: How can we bring together the economic conditions and ecological needs in a convincing way? How can a maximum human quality be achieved with a minimal use of resources? We see ourselves as creators of ideas who want to improve the world a little bit every time with carefully researched, cleverly interpreted and confidently implemented projects.

The following main topics characterize our current activities:

Development of existing buildings

Against the background of the desired development towards climate neutrality, the appreciative and value-preserving approach to the existing buildings is becoming increasingly important: by transforming existing buildings into attractive, market-oriented and future-oriented properties, market viability and profitability can be secured in the long term.

The challenges in the sphere of development of existing buildings are diverse and specific and vary from the examination and evaluation of existing buildings to energy-efficient renovation, from development of conversion and transformation concepts to expansion and densification or even development of new spaces.

With the aim of preserving and sustainably increasing the value of real estate, we develop creative, sustainable and economically viable concepts for the energetic refurbishment, revitalization, reuse, expansion and densification of existing properties. By transforming existing buildings into attractive, market-oriented and forward-looking properties, marketability and profitability can be secured in the long term. We can look back on a large number of successful projects in the area of heritage development, ranging from the refurbishment, conversion and extension of listed buildings and ensembles to the general refurbishment, extension and repositioning of existing buildings from the 1970s and 1980s.

In addition to concept development and planning, we offer a wide range of consulting services for the project initiation phases. We have acquired the area of sustainability and climate management as a new field of expertise, which ranges from inventory assessment to the development of climate and energy concepts that comply with ESG and EU Taxonomy.

Climate-friendly design

The adoption of the European Green Deal and the German Climate Protection Act bring about profound changes for the construction and real estate industry.

With this in mind, we see it as our responsibility as architects and planners to redesign the way we think and conceive architecture. It is our aim and aspiration to develop the most sustainable options for each project and thereby to create projects with and for our clients that are both valuable and stable.

To be able to actively shape this process, we have focused our competences and methodologies – from large scale to detailed solutions – on sustainable goals for achieving climate neutrality. For us, the development of sustainable solutions at all scales involves, among other things, the flexibility and efficiency of the structure, the consideration of the facade as a high-performance shell, the constructive timber construction and the inclusion of circularity in the planning process.

Urban transformation

Climate change, land scarcity, demographic change, scarcity of resources as well as changes in the economy and mobility have an impact on the local level, sometimes instantaneously and directly. This presents cities and communities with major challenges: it is a question of the sustainable transformation of urban areas and settlements. This need is expressed not least in a large number of international agreements and national agendas, which define the models and goals of the transition to a climate-neutral city, such as the EU Green Deal, the 2030 Agenda or the new Leipzig Charter.

We are convinced that sustainable and livable (further) development of urban and landscape areas is an essential key to a climate-neutral future.

The city as a resource

For us, the associated sustainable transformation process involves more than a change in the way we deal with material and energy resources: it is also a question of integrating the city's social resources, the non-reproducible resource soil and the ideological and identifiable potentials as essential components in the transformation process. For us, the main starting point for the conception of the project is always the examination of what we find, the material and intellectual resources of the place.

Multiscalar and multidisciplinary

For sustainable, integrative urban development, we always pursue a multi-scalar design approach to test the objectives, strategies and concepts on different scales from the object to the district and the city to the region for their resilience and sustainability. To the same extent, we see urban development as a multidisciplinary task that takes into account a variety of expertise (landscape, mobility, climate, sociology, etc.) and combines them into integrated concepts.

New working environments

Working environments are subject to constant structural change. More recently, the experience of the pandemic has acted as a catalyst and with the integration of hybrid working methods, has created a new work culture, new skills and abilities.

Global influences such as the flexibilization and digitalization of the world of work require a steady increase in the ability of individuals and organizations to adapt to different tasks, regardless of the place of work and working hours.

Our focus is on the representation of the company's own work processes in an individually designed work environment. It must be adaptive and changeable in order to optimally support work processes: the use of new technologies as well as the increase in communication when working hours are not always synchronous make this an essential requirement.

Together with our customers, we develop flexible, hybrid and tailor-made room concepts with future potential and bring people, spaces and technology together cleverly and sustainably in a modern working environment.

Services

The allmannwappner gmbh covers all service phases - from the basic evaluation to the completion of the projects.

In addition to conventional architectural design, our service portfolio includes

Consulting & Project Development

For many years, we have provided consulting services for building contractors in their urban planning, site development or factory restructuring projects, working together to develop custom, high-quality, high-performance architecture.

One key element at the start of any project is the requirements analysis, in which we analyze workflows, usage patterns, development scenarios and space requirements in addition to factors such as corporate culture and characteristics that best express the client’s identity. We identify all particularities and interdependencies, translate them into a comprehensive set of process-related, structural and spatial specifications and deliver a cohesive architectural solution. In our master plans, we develop long-term, flexible and sustainable strategies for the use and development of a space and draft clear structural and architectural guidelines. Corporate decision-making and procurement processes are streamlined; consistent quality guaranteed. We develop identity-shaping corporate architecture that guarantees a high recognition factor and is flexible enough to be customized for use across the organization.

Our founders and partners also act as advisors in committees, jury panels and urban planning commissions. They support and advise municipal governments, public entities and building contractors in their strategic planning and in the design of their building projects.

Feasibility studies in project development

This dedicated department evaluates the potential of construction sites and existing buildings with regard to planning, construction law and commercial success. Based on that evaluation, we weigh all possible opportunities and risks as we determine realistic next steps for the process. Taking construction law concerns into account, we identify the qualities of the site in an urban planning context and define the optimal utilization plan at an early stage.

Design-build contractor across all performance phases

For end-to-end project management from a single service provider, our Lead Design services cover the organization, management and oversight of all participants during all performance phases of a project. Above all, this demands consistency in design, quality assurance during realization and efficient, close collaboration with all relevant experts.

Interior design

The priority here is establishing a link to the architecture itself – we understand and design interiors and exteriors as a cohesive unit. Design concepts developed for the architecture continue in the interior, creating homogeneous, easy-to-understand spaces across the entire project.

Methodology

Quality is one of our core values. In our definition, quality stands for commit-
ment to design and precision.

Context-aware design and a dialectical approach are the signature features of our project development process. Through the use of various digital and analog media and tools, we experiment with two and three-dimensional concepts and craft possible solutions. From the first sketch to the completed building, our Design Directors are involved in every performance phase.

We see close, project-specific collaboration with relevant experts as a key prerequisite for project success. Interdisciplinary consulting teams with engineering professionals play a prominent role in the early stages of a project in an aim to achieve forward-looking innovations and ensure the structural feasibility of our designs.

With our Design Directors involved in every performance phase, we guarantee that all of our projects make a bold design statement. The same applies to our attention to detail in implementation and proactive process management during execution. A dedicated project management staff takes responsibility for deadlines, expenses and performance throughout the duration of the project. A circular process of planning, execution, evaluation and implementation (Plan - Do - Check - Act) enables us to identify and leverage any potential for improvement. We structure our workflows using the DIN 69901 Quality Management System and the DIN/EN 6990 Project Management standards.

Our office relies on a building information modelling (BIM) system. This model-based process with 3D visualization increases transparency, optimizes interface management and improves communication between participants during all project phases: from design and planning to construction and occupancy.

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M.Sc. Architecture, Technical University of Berlin