Rinaldo
Makaj

A differentiated volume that acts as an urban hinge at Rathenauplatz, a tower turning toward the dense city centre along Kurfürstendamm and a lower high point turning toward the green fabric of Grunewald. The rotation between the two masses opens into a public entrée, its finely layered stone façade giving the whole a filigree, sculptural presence.

The redevelopment of the police headquarters site marks a highly visible new landmark within Frankfurt's historic fabric. A tapering high-rise volume, wrapped in a fine vertical grid, gathers offices, technical and public functions across roughly 90,000 sqm, its structure left legible on the façade so that scale and use remain readable from the street. Lead design architect while at Max Dudler Architects.

A university library built as a stacked sequence of reading rooms, book stacks and crossing stairs, its concrete section left legible so that the life of the institution becomes its own ornament. Structure here does not enclose activity so much as frame it, each floor a variation on the same idea of study as a shared, public condition.

For the new headquarters of Aareal Bank in Wiesbaden, three parallel office volumes are organised around a shared structural and material language. Framed by a deep concrete grid with glazed infill, the repetition of the three blocks gives the campus a calm, institutional scale of roughly 20,000 sqm, while allowing each volume its own address within the ensemble.

A competition entry converting the listed Ballonhalle into a new campus for the Academy of Fine Arts and TU Wien. Rather than annexing the historic hall directly, a sequence of distinct buildings frames it, leaving its delicate structure to stand free at the centre of the new ensemble.

A monolithic seminar building at the heart of the new philosophy campus at Justus-Liebig University. Its calm, rational façade allows the open, multi-layered plan within to read outward, while an exposed structural frame carries the same clarity inside, shaping a continuum of seminar rooms, working areas and gathering spaces around a double-height entrance foyer.

A new campus headquarters for Leipziger Stadtwerke, where three monolithic volumes of staggered height gather around an urban square shared with the existing building. A common material and rhythm of façade tie old and new together, translating the company's history into a contemporary, timeless language.

A slender infill volume proposed between existing masonry buildings on the edge of Central Park, its narrow glass and stone volume wedged into the street wall as an extension of the museum. Studio project developed in collaboration with E2A, Accademia di Architettura di Mendrisio.