Completion: 2027

Location: Bergkamen, Germany

Client: Municipality Bergkamen
Team: Philipp Mecke, Ana Filipović, Simon Palme
Engineering: Bollinger + Grohmann Consulting GmbH, Frankfurt/M.

Construction management: lingens-baumanagement
Images: Veit Eckelt
Year: 2022

The proposed envelope for the future pump station in the city of Bergkamen consists of four graduated curtains of stainless steel rings. The curtains are only suspended from above and are thus gently moved by the wind. The gradations and the properties of the material evoke an ascending and flowing movement, which suggests the movement of water within the pump station itself. The metal mesh façade not only shapes the external appearance but also offers an essential function by providing an effective, external, low-maintenance sunshade for the building's occupants without obstructing the view to the outside.

Location: Leibnitz Universität Hannover, Dept. dMA

Type: Installation
Status: Ongoing research
Department: Digital Method in Architecture, Prof. Mirco Becker
Assistant Professor : Philipp Mecke
Tutor: Jan Zobel
Students: Rebecca Faulhaber, Maximillian Löwen, Ann Katrin Loewe, Sophia Haid,

Lin Chan Ting, Leon Schittek, Janek Zindler, Marco Schacht

The Research extends the contemporary developments in design, optimization and fabrication. In the 20th century, universal joint systems have been developed that brought such connectors to the forefront of serial production. Konrad Wachsmann, the architect who developed the Universal Connector in the 1950‘s stated how his main intention was „the liberation from the dogma of convention“. However, these standardized systems quickly reach their geometric and design limits in the construction of complex structures and as such could only be implemented at high cost and planning effort.

Type: Office Building

Year: Completion 2022

Location: Leipzig

Client: SAB
Team: Friedrich Ludewig, Heidrun Schuhmann, Tim Laubinger,

Dirk Mueller, Philipp Mecke
Engineering: Knippers Helbig

ACME's proposal for the SAB develops the traditional typology of a bank as an imposing institution representing stability, permanence and strength into a contemporary design for a bank of the 21st century. The traditional columns, acting as a transition between inside and outside, have been dissolved into a forest of supports carrying an overarching roof that covers the entirety of the site. Beneath this roof, a number of spaces are new public routes, and spaces are created like clearings in a forest, inviting inhabitation and passage. The columns and roof provide a sense of visual and acoustic enclosure towards the adjacent highway and integrate shading and passive cooling functions for the office spaces. This allows the offices to be open and transparent towards the new public space, creating an efficient, yet loose array of stacked and overlapping office floor-plates to accommodate the many differing departments of the SAB.

Type: Exhibition

Year: 2019

Location: Satiriko Theater in Nicosia

Client: Alternative Brain Rules
Team: Philipp Mecke, Ana Filipovic, Constantinos Kryprinaos

Spatial design for performative lecture series I'm permanence, held in Satiriko Theater in Nicosia, responded to the topic of permanence by looking at the temporary, yet the permanent structure of the Green Line, the demilitarized zone between the Greek Republic of Cyprus and the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus. A cease-fire line was materialized a wall of sandbags and gun emplacements appear rather soft and invisible in the city fabric. Amphitheater for the audience is thus created out of white sandbags, reinterpreting a traditional method for constructing defensive walls.

Type: Feasibility Studie

Year: 2023

Location: Island

Team: Philipp Mecke

Mala tectum is a study of a lightweight construction in a natural environment which means a minimum of intervention. A modular system allows the construction to be temporarily erected in the most inaccessible places. Due to the lightweight construction, no permanent intervention in the environment is necessary. The design plays with the intimacy to nature, through the different permeabilities of the layers of the facades it is possible to open up to the environment in different ways depending on the location and needs.

Type: Infrastructure competition, 3rd Prize

Year: 2018

Location: Plovdiv, Bulgaria

Client: Municipality Plovdiv
Team: Philipp Mecke, Ana Filipović, Veit Eckelt

Central square in Plovdiv marks a plethora of historical layers in non harmonious relation. One over another the layers are reclaiming their dominance over the square. Proposed design is using the language of one to expose the other and vice versa. The grid of the Forum of the ancient Philopoppolis is exposed on the surface in a repetitive regular form that is referring to the building legacy of the contemporary layer. Out of the regular grid arises a set of columns in two orthogonal axes, Cardo and Decumanus, thus marking every of the excavated sites. Their regularity in irregularity becomes a visual connection both present and absent in the image of the city. Columns appear as the sequence during the walk and culminate as a composition from one of the Plovdiv’s high points.The ancient Forum is merged with the square trough the transition from a hard paved to a soft green surface.