Living on Kennedyallee

Mumm’sche Park, located on the edge of the city forest in Frankfurt-Sachsenhausen, is one of the most attractive residential areas in the Hessian metropolis. The district is characterized by representative palace-like buildings on large, park-like properties.

An exception to this was a very large office building built in the 1970s, which was most recently used by German air traffic control. When this Federal Air Traffic Control Agency was relocated to the neighboring community of Langen, the Frankfurt location and building were abandoned and the property was made available for the construction of residential buildings.

Nine free-standing buildings form an ensemble of solitary buildings that emphasize the original park character of the property.

While the new buildings along the adjacent streets define the backbone of the complex, the five to seven story high point houses positioned inside the quarter create open, flowing green spaces and highlight an attractive neighboring building: the Villa Mumm, a building built between 1902 and 1904 in the style The palace was built in historicism for the family of the “champagne baron” Hermann Mumm von Schwarzenstein.

Two of the buildings were built according to the plans of Turkali Architects. They are positioned along the busy Kennedyallee and organized as a four-horse team. On the noise-prone side they show a plastered, urban-looking perforated facade with floor-to-ceiling windows. The interior of the quarter is characterized by loggias in front of it that are built like shelves and are approximately 2.5 meters deep. Regardless of the size of the adjacent apartment, all loggias are identical in size and have a glass balustrade.

The fully glazed facade facing the loggia allows a framed and unobstructed view from the apartments to the neighboring buildings, the city forest and Villa Mumm. Sun protection screens mounted in front of the glass balustrades make the loggia a spatial complement to the living room.

The buildings are organized on the standard floors in such a way that large apartments are naturally lit from three sides. Smaller apartments may have one-sided exposure, but they also enjoy the advantages of facing the park.

The attic, designed as a non-full floor according to building regulations and designed as part of the overall volume, offers impressive distant views of the Taunus mountains, the city forest including the airport and the skyline of Frankfurt from the penthouse apartments and the partially covered terraces.