Fourrichon Architecture is a Berlin based group of architects, designers, builders and thinkers operating within the fields of urbanism, architecture, fashion, design, research and development. Fourrichon Architectures emerges out of a careful analysis of how contemporary life constantly evolves and changes. Not least due to the influence from multicultural exchange, global economical flows and communication technologies that all together require new ways of architectural and urban Organisation.

Our ideas are developed in close collaboration with the client, users and our team of consultants in order to achieve long-lasting buildings, products and reduced life-cycle costs.

Fourrichon Architecture Studio attaches great importance to designing environmentally friendly and integrated, energy-efficient solutions. Our projects are characterised by a high degree of social responsibility – not only in relation to materials and production but also as regards good, social and community-creating spaces.

We are a full service and multi-disciplinary practice citing positive and meaningful experiences at the centre of our approach to design.

Fourrichon Architecture
Frankfurter Tor 9 D-10243 Berlin
tel. +49.(0)30.99265800
info@fourrichon.com

2020 . 1st Price  Invited Competition “Ungewöhnlich Wohnen Kinder in der Stadt – uw KidS”
In collaboration with Giulia Andi & Davide Vianello

2019 . “Gold” at the Berlin Design Awards for the best Corporate Interior Design 2019
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2019 . “Silver” at the New York Design Awards for Best Corporate Interior Design in 2019
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2019 . “Office of the Month” – June 2019 at OFFICELOVIN
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2018 . “Milan Design Week 2018 -”Artemest : Stranger Pinks” selected to exhibition in a Gio Ponti 30′ House Background
Stranger Pinks   -  AD “The Best Installations, Collaborations, and Projects”

2016 . “Salone del Mobile – fuori Salone – Ladies & Gentlemen – 14 via Cesare Correnti Milano ”
Presentation on the palazzo terrace of the Marble Gravity Series Z6 & Z8

2010. i feel magazine – design and lifestyle from Tel Aviv featured the Berlin loft project

2008 . Publication in various Newspapers under the title “Pioneers in Berlin!” (Actual central Scene in Berlin – 2013)
article about creatives and artists disovering a new quartier in the Brunnenviertel…

2008 . 1st Price – Housing complex in Veteranen Straße 20, Berlin-Mitte, Germany.
Realization completion 2013 with Patrick McHugh, Aleksandra Kubos and Kuhn & Co. Gesellschaft von Architekten mbH

2007 . “calle de barrio, espacio de juego!”, Calle Humahuaca, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Street installation performance

2006 . Administrative and housing complex in Perly-Certoux, Switzerland, 1st mention.
Competition with Guy Corbaz & Pascal Oulevay Architectes Sàrl

2005 . La Bâtie Festival de Genève 2005, Inventer quelque chose à vivre, Switzerland
“Jouez! Redécouvrir le quotidien”, installation in collaboration with David Letellier

2004 . M°A°I°S, 6th Exhibition, The free will, Arena Berlin, Germany
“The Carnotzet”, installation in collaboration with Victor Tenorio Arias

2004 . Public equipment for the city of Le Mont sur Lausanne, Switzerland.
Invited competition in collaboration with Guy Corbaz, 2nd Price

2004 . Lausanne Jardins 2004, “Ombre et Parcours”, invited competition, mentioned project.
Realization and exhibition in collaboration with Guy Corbaz

Frédéric Louis Fourrichon_Architecte dplg

Davide Vianello _Architect & BIM Modeler

Elisabetta Romano_Architect & Interior Designer

Frank Trost_ Industry Designer

Matteo Castellani _ Architetto & Musician

Falk Friedrich Heuer_Architectural due diligence

Giulia Herman _Grafic Designer

Lulù Poletti _Fashion & Interior Designer

Victor Tenorio Arias_Architekt

S. Ferdinand Kern _ Architect 3D Master & Solution maker

K99 _Webdesigner

Lupo_Photographer

Company Name: FOURRICHON ARCHITECTURE

Founder: Frédéric L. Fourrichon – Architecte dplg

Architect chamber: Nr. 12197 (Architektenkammer Berlin)

Registered Office: Frankfurter Tor 9, 10243 Berlin, Germany (Geschäftssitz)

Office Location: Kastanienallee 32, 10435 Berlin, Germany

Company registration: 17843722 (Betriebsnummer)

Taxes Nr.: 14/289/03612 – Finanzamt Berlin Friedrichshain (SteuerNr.)

International VAT identification  number _  DE227846973 (USt-IdNr.)

Insurance:  R+V Allgem. Vers. AG, n°407/29/025847326 (Haftpflichtsversicherung)

Bank _ Commerz Bank Berlin, kto: 0405097600,  plz: 70080000,  IBAN : DE96 700800000405097600, Swift – BIC : COBA DE FF

© 2008  Frédéric L. Fourrichon  |   Site design: k99

As fast growing start-up, AirHelp relocated its Headquarter into a former Carpenter Factory in the scene district of Berlin-Friedrichshain. The client requested a space where people could meet, feel comfortable and work. A flexible working space where the distance between people can be modulate in order to respond to the multitude of uses: working area, concentrating, meetings, coffee breaks, lunches and parties.

The lines between work, life, and community are blurring, and the office should be designed to reflect these new realities. People are most productive when they are healthy, inspired, motivated, and valued, but not when they are stressed. The modern workplace is all about the employee experience. The workplace provided unassigned seating combined with a multitude of different environments for every need and personality.

We design an environment for the employees to work alone, then together and provide a variety of experiences with the intention to improve their life at work. The space has been divided in 2 distinct areas define social and focus.  Social is where all collaborations and interactions take place. Focus is a (cloistered) cocoon area where employees work alone.

AWARD

Office of the Month, OFFICELOVIN JUNE 2019

Silver at the New York Design Awards for Best Corporate Interior Design in 2019 

Gold at the Berlin Design Awards for best Corporate Interior Design 2019 

RECEPTION

© Luca Girardini – Architectural photography 2020

SOCIAL WORK AREA

© Luca Girardini – Architectural photography 2020

The building layout has a T-Shape and deep rooms, so we took advantage of the double exposition site to leave the light penetrate until the middle area.
Two large meeting room are separating the socialize area from the focus room, in which the wood and plants jungle are creating a small oasis of peace.

© Luca Girardini – Architectural photography 2020

© Luca Girardini – Architectural photography 2020

DEEP WORK AREA

The quite area of the “office “ – home like environment –  is a quite zone design to invite individual flow and focus.
More personal, it is favorable for concentration and achievement, wood flooring, soft fabric, plants and lot of lights complete and gives a sensation of isolation acoustically as well as visually.

© Luca Girardini – Architectural photography 2020

© Jácint Halász 2019

© Luca Girardini – Architectural photography 2020

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The area of the “office” – Coffee Shop like environment – is thought to be comfortable and recreate vibrant common known space being socially active stimulating the creativity, collaboration and builds community.

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KITCHEN & COFFEE BAR

Due to the really short time given between knowing the company culture and background and to design the space, we could not relay on industrial furniture companies, which give mostly a 90 days delivery.
We decided to proceed, as we already did before, with the customization and we quickly realized a furniture booklet to be developed in collaboration with the artisans.

Our pieces create flexible spaces. The design is made to be composed, decomposed and even dismantled when required.
The space are partly define and leave freedom to different modality of use. We were really proud to see that the space has revealed a good adaption and successful flexibility also in most extreme need as for instance the Covid 19 pandemic period.

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After the wall fall, the underground level of this factory building becomes un-useable since the states pump factory have been dismantled. To reactivate the used of the underground level, a water-proof Steel-Concrete slab have been implement in order to host new rooms. Additionally, the basement under the courtyard allowed to create wider pilar free structure in which today the theatre room is hosted. Formerly spread through the building and squeeze in reduce floor height for performance, the Theatre have been relocated with all its facilities to the underground, moving the repetition room of the theatre school beside in order to create a full functioning Theatre.

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Underground Theatre room framed from its original wall limits

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Underground Theatre under the sky light

Underground Theatre backside

Kitchen Block open to the Living Area, Privat Apartment in Berlin

Design Kitchen Block Berlin Brown Gold By FLF_Design Berlin Milan for vvall Architect

Design Kitchen Block Berlin Brown Gold By FLF_Design Berlin Milan for vvall Architect

Custom Kitchen Block Brown/Gold by FLF Design

From a single flat 3cm marble sheet to 3 dimensional dinning table

The Gravity Project is a research of a glue and screw free connections, embedding the top and leg plates, while the gravity weight of the material itself increases the overall stability of the entire structure.

“Z” Marble Table series is the continuity and optimization of the “M” Marble series, reducing the weight and the elements to a single material thickness. The connection is solved by an elegant cross double embedded connection and the continuity between the hole created on the top plate and the flank surface of its leg.

 A system envisaged in various different forms, sizes and various tables combination, with a common standardized special embedding.

Technical data and variants

Tables with various different finishes, configurations and heights made of white Carrara, Calacatta marble, grey Carnic marble, grey Bardiglio marble or green Guatemala marble.

Shapes, Modules compositions and Marbles variations can also be customized on request.

for more Detail and purchase, please visit:  www.melamposcapes.eu

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Z8 White Carrara Marble Table – 4 Legs/ 8 Seats Table
Dimensions: 186×142 cm ©Frederic Louis Fourrichon Design

Z6 Grigio Carnico Marble Table – 3 Legs / 6 seats
© Frederic Louis Fourrichon Design
Retail, store, interior, house

Z6 Grigio Carnico Marble Table – 3 Legs / 6 seats
© Frederic Louis Fourrichon Design

Z4 Rosa Portugallo Display Table – 2 Legs
© Frederic Louis Fourrichon Design

Z2.2 Fiore di Pesco Guéridon – 1 Leg
© Frederic Louis Fourrichon Design

Z2 Salome Marble Side Table & Z2 Guéridon – 1 Leg Twins
© Frederic Louis Fourrichon Design

Z2 Salome Marble Guéridon – 1 Leg
© Frederic Louis Fourrichon Design

Realization of the first concept-store for an emerging Italian fashion brand “Melampo”.

The marble table has been developed at the request of your client, so after that time emerge the Gravity “M” Marble Table Series follow by the  successful “Z” Series

Brass Look Display – Marble Accessory Display – Photo: © Lucrecia Althabe

Brass wall Display – Marble Table M – LED Appolo Lamp – Photo: © Lucrecia Althabe

Brass / Wood Duomo Display – Sputnik Lamp – 60×60 ceiling Decoration – Photo: © Lucrecia Althabe

Melampo Flagshipstore Plan

The Gravity Marble Table “M” has been design for the Fashion Store Melampo. From that table variations have been develop and commercialized

The production of this table is custom made and on request. For further information or order please fill the contact form here

Brass wall Display – Marble Table M – LED Appolo Lamp – Photo: © Lucrecia Althabe

Gravity Marble Table “M” Joint detail

A new ensemble of 3546 sqm composed of a front building, side wing and rear building will be erected facing the Weinsbergpark, prefered urban parc in Berlin Mitte. The front facade rythmed with balconies and large bay windows have been design to screen the view and protection from the direct sun light (South facade).

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The Loft is 280 sqm (3000ft) and occupies two storeys in a former factory. The “open room” concept acknowledges the loft character. A central “Service Box” with integrated sliding doors allows the loft to be subdivided without the need for conventional hallways or rooms. The zones “living” and “sleeping/bathing” can be alternately opened or closed.

Our design idea was to capt the existing multi-directional natural light exposure of an open space by giving to all resulting “rooms” all day long the benefice of it.

Loft entrance view – © Photography by LUPO

Loft “living” view – © Photography by LUPO

Loft Kitchen View – © Photography by LUPO

Loft with furniture – Living -credit Photography Natulis Group AG

Loft feature in ifeel magazine 7/12/2010 -credit Photography ifeel (www.allmag.co.il)

La modernisation de cette maison traditionnelle située en plein coeur du Beaujolais se caractérise par la requalification des espaces cloisonnés et confinés des lieux de vie au travers une relecture horizontale de la maison. Les espaces ainsi optimisés gagnent en luminosité, fonctionnalité et fluidité.

South West view / vue Sud-Ouest – © Photographie : Olivier Nord

Une Maison Beaujolaise – fenêtre à grand cadre bois dans une ouverture existante/ … © Photographie : Olivier Nord

Une Maison Beaujolaise – façade intérieure Sud/ südliche Innenfassade © Photographie : Olivier Nord

Une Maison Beaujolaise – Chantier/ Bauausführung (2008)

Bar Milano in Berlin Mitte is a cult bar where you can get an original drink with a snack from Milan.

A little Milano in Berlin at Aperitivo time!

Our intervention in this project is to add furniture elements between the already existing design Masterpieces…

Kevas_Aperitif high Table_design custom made _Marble/ Metal

Concept Plan Bar Milano in Berlin

Aperitivo high table
Brass/ Marmor

Z6 & Z8 Marble Table ©Frederic Louis Fourrichon @fuorisalone 2016 Milan

Fuorisalone 2016 – Milan Design Week
@ Ladies and Gentlemen Show Group Exhibition
Via Cesare Correnti 14 Milano
12 to 17 April 2016

The Factory Building is behind the second Courtyard of a Residential Ensemble.
Several Lofts Proposal have been develop until the destination of the building have been change and return to its former function = Workshop.

Boxhagenerstrasse Berlin Friedrichshain

Penthouse Variation

DJ Loft develop on 3 storeys

Part of the re-structuration of the Poletti Group, based in Santa Maria della Versa (PV), the Poletti Shirts Outlet – ICM has been relocated in a former shirt production workshop. The reversibility was one aspect of the planning to consider and an folded exposition wall has been dressed to separate the shop floor from the storage area with 2 access on the both extremity of it.

Factory Outlet ICM -Panoramic View / © vvall

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Factory Outlet ICM -Entrance View / © vvall

Factory Outlet ICM -shirts presentation / © vvall

Outlet ICM -Back View / © vvall

Built in 1997 for a Grafic Art Studio in Botosani (Romania) this building is planning to be turn into a fine food Restaurant. The Owner wants to share its Cuisine Origins and propose an Italian/French slow food card. In this region where many industry set-up their Manufacture business during the last decade, a meeting point between the local citizen and the visitor is still missing and this project intend to bring all together around a table.
Bon Apetit!

New Restaurant Location in Botosani City center , Romania © vvall berlin

in between this office building was used as a night club, Botosani © vvall berlin

Summer Conf, a garment Factory based in Botosani Romania, is moving to a couple of street closer to the City Center in a former Spinning Factory. Part of new reconstructed complex, SummerConf will double is production area and will be composed of a 4.000m² Production space, 1.500m² of storage rooms and 800m² of all other facilities (offices, canteen and other space dedicated to workers).

Organizing the space with the management in order to have better productivity and giving a comfortable working atmosphere in a nice environment is the common target.

Due to the permanent market changes, the needs of the client are constantly reevaluated, therefore we advise our client to give time to the planning, in closer collaboration, we are not seen only as a planning team but as valuable partner, in confidence, we support and develop together additionally their website: www.summerconf.com

SummerConf Production area before moving to the new manufacture.

In the existing space we found a lot of quality, it is only a matter of organizing it to the current needs!

SummerConf new location

SummerConf former Spining Factory, Botosani

SummerConf work in progress

To support them in their Indian Join-venture, the SummerConf Group mandate vvall to assist and represent them on site during the building construction. We saw, learn and exchange methods, we had fruitful relationship with the local staff and together we develop the Aurora Apparel Pvt. Ltd. website: www.auroraapparel.org

Aurora Apparel Nipani – view from security gate

Aurora Apparel Nipani – Open Space flexibility

In a listed historical ensemble,  a former seeds storage building, barn and a threshing floor area have been turn into an event place,  with a 100 Seats Restaurant, a 42 Bed Hostel and a 1200sqm Ball / Theatre Hall.

Opening 2011.

Künstlerhof Berlin-Buch

Künstlerhof, Berlin-Buch, Event Theaterraum, vor dem Bau

Kuenstlerhof Berlin Buch Lageplan

Kuenstlerhof Berlin Buch Schnitt

Kuenstlerhof Berlin Buch Restaurant, kurz vor der Eröffnung

The Théatre de Chambre is a theater compagnie of the north of France – Aulnoye-Aymeries – which after more than 20 years of temporary space location will open its own “Theater” or less better say “lieu de creation”!

We were invited by the artistic Director Christophe Piret after having the idea with his Producteur Pierre Laly to organize a low-budget” Berliner Bar”  under the repetition room. With about a tausend euro budget, we had to find furnitures, lampes and materials in order to bring this post-industrial space as a more cosy Place where people will like to stay…

This work was made togheter with Lulù Poletti a fashion designer

232U “espace bar” wostarchitects – photography © Lupo

232U “espace bar” wostarchitects – photography © Lupo

The design of the large urban space, left by the imprint of a football-field and a large parking area, becomes an opportunity to make a reflection on the whole town, aiming at a general urban redevelopment. The project moves from an interpretation of the place at a large scale: the orthography, the urban morphology, the relations between historical and modern town, between public and private areas and empty and built spaces.

Questa é Palma – Riequilibrio e Riconnessione

At a smaller scale, it investigates and interprets those recurring urban “materials” that have given the town its physical form over the time and have constructed its present image (ramps, passages, private gardens, walls and continuous building fronts).  Three functional strips can be identified: the system auditorium-public square, at the level of the historical town, connected with its monumental and civic axis, the museum and its garden at a middle level, and the large urban park, housing leisure and sport activities, beside the new commercial spaces and sport facilities.

Questa é Palma – section AA

Questa é Palma – section BB

Questa é Palma – pianta

Questa é Palma – Fascia del tempo libero

Questa é Palma

Questa é Palma – hanging garden

Questa é Palma – pick orange

Questa é Palma

The building is formally connected with a bridge – a new venue for meetings, reflections and views of Ostrow and środka. The bridge refers metaphorically to the original function of the lock – engaging and disengaging, and flowing from the people and information.

Our urban basic idea was to design the center along the axis between the Western and Eastern, today only symbolically, the existing site of the former sluice with a view to the importance of the “flowing through highlight” of people and events in the past and the place a to give new meaning in the present and the future.

Interaktywne Centrum Historii – …/ Prenstation model

Interaktywne Centrum Historii – …/ Bridge connection level

Interaktywne Centrum Historii – …/ Public side elevation

Interaktywne Centrum Historii – …/ night shot

Student life at Marathonos 34 is concieved around a modular composition which can be inserted into the long and narrow urban space of this ancient Athenian area. Circulations and outdoor living spaces that hug the building to the limits parcel constitute fully the volume of the building. The living units are seeking the depth of field, fostering openings and development of an effective interface that spread spaces to be annexed by related student groups to self-manage the site. These semi covered outdoor spaces characterize use of utilities that shares the independence of the street and the quiet of an interior. The flexibility of uses a part of these interfaces to allow multiple students to develop in places convenient for their age, family situation, or their financial resources. The collective spaces evolve according to the migrations of the students and open onto passageways and terraces which are gradually associated.

upto35 Student Housing – Facade Marathonos 34/ …

upto35 Student Housing – Siteplan (Viral Strategy)/ …

upto35 Student Housing – Axonometric Diagram/ …

upto35 Student Housing – Marathonos 34 (Interior View)/ …

upto35 Student Housing – View on Shared Park/…

upto35 Student Housing – Exterior View (Viral Strategy)/ …

A 2,600 m2 residential high-rise with 26 luxury lofts overlooking the historic Mauerpark in Berlin – Prenzlauer Berg.
wost atarchitects designed the facade and internal layouts of the flats. The rhythm of openings, solids and screened areas on the facade are meant to reflect the internal functions of living, sleeping, working, etc.

Mehrfamilienhaus Bernauer Straße 50 – Fassade/ …

Mehrfamilienhaus Bernauer Straße 50 – Plandiagramm/ …

Mehrfamilienhaus Bernauer Straße 50 – Konzeptskizze/ …

Mehrfamilienhaus Bernauer Straße 50 – Blick vom Postenweg/ …

Mehrfamilienhaus Bernauer Straße 50 – Fassade (Schwedter Straße)

WOST: a carving out of autonomous space, an enclave of immunity that liberates enough from the conditions of control to serve as a starting point.  A free zone, temporarily inserted into the ever-shifting center of the city.  The strip of land that was once a no-man’s-land, with it’s accompanying “ghost station” (Nordbahnhof), is recaptured and occupied.  A site of former terror becomes a new “spot of power”, completely independent from Germany and from the E.U.

WOST PARK Bernauer Straße – Foto von Modell/ …

WOST PARK Bernauer Straße – …/ competition board

WOST PARK Bernauer Straße

WOST PARK Bernauer Straße

WOST PARK Bernauer Straße

WOST PARK Bernauer Straße – Foto von Modell

wost (a combination of “West” and “East”) was founded in 2008 in Berlin, Germany by a group of enthusiastic architects of various nationalities.  Draw from a wide range of Background and experiences, Frédéric Louis Fourrichon (France), Aleksandra Kubos (Poland) and Patrick McHugh (US-Ireland), partners on projects managing all the phases offer a full architectural services.  Engaged in projects at many scales, from loft and commercial interiors to residential high-rises, urban parks & planning, wost deliver with a selected group of consultants a complete and professional solution.

Humans means: 6 persons, including 3 administratives

Activity: Architecture, urbanism, design

Managment: Frédéric Louis Fourrichon, Aleksandra Kubos, Patrick McHugh

Collaborators: Martin Bornemann, dipl-ing – Sandra Brauer, dipl-ing – Matteo Castellani, giardiniere architetto – Pierre-Antoine Maillard, architecte dplg – krembo ninenine, architect 3d master -