Office Building Ritterstraße

The six-storey Ritterstraße office building in the Berlin district of Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg was built using solid construction methods. The design with an L-shaped floor plan was created by the Berlin office of Richter Musikowski; Werner Sobek was responsible (on behalf of checking engineer Prof. Hans Georg Reinke) for checking the structural design and supervising the construction as part of the inspection.

Construction Supervision of a complex Structural Design

As an underground railway tunnel runs beneath the building, the reinforced concrete skeleton structure was placed on a steel supporting grid structure. It spans the tunnel like a kind of bridge.

A café, a workshop area and an underground car park were integrated into the barrier-free office building in the former carriage quarter. Its striking, semi-transparent facade spans all floors and provides plenty of daylight in the workplace.