DI HALLE

Berlin, Germany

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DI HALLE

Berlin, Germany

Firm

Lena Wimmer Architects

Type

Commercial › Showroom
Cultural › Gallery Cultural Center

STATUS

Built

YEAR

2017

SIZE

10,000 sqft - 25,000 sqft

BUDGET

$50K - 100K

DI HALLE is a French family run gallery, bar, restaurant and club located in Prenzlauerberg, Berlin.
The collaboration started 9 years ago in Milan, when we decided to create a new concept in Berlin. Years later a unique property seemed ideal to house this concept - a 50´s car garage, in central Berlin. We immediately wanted to challenge this place, transforming it into a science fiction cathedral that could be on Mars but somehow landed in Berlin. To give the city a forum for music, art, culture and high quality food from a French Chef with one of the first Michelin stars awarded for his local green kitchen.

The building seemingly hides if not for its' entrance that grabs your attention as it sticks out of the building, while the inside stays hidden from the observer.
If you enter by a 6-meter high sliding door you unconsciously feel the outside noise disappears as you´re led by bent walls into the building. The shimmering grays on walls and floors are bearing a purple red ceiling that plunges the visitor in warm lights.
From here one is inbetween different openings, curves and doors that leed to the restaurant, club, gallery or bar.

Simple constructions and material techniques where chosen to realize the project on a tight budget, thereby saving money for some great handcrafted details. This complemented the true luxury already present. With 6 meter high ceilings, concrete columns and its old glass facade a new shaking body was placed into it. High chimney windows top the roof to let in natural light that enters obliquely to the inner core and trough the translucent glass doors.

With round corners, no 90-degree angles, parabolic openings and doors one enters a space that is strange but quiet and simple at the same time.