Explore an 80-Room Nazi Bunker Converted Into a Home and Gallery

It takes a very specific kind of esthesia to live in the wrecking of monstrous regimen , but art collector Karen and Christian Boros have it . The couple and their kids know in a sand trap with six - substructure - heavyset concrete rampart , originally work up to hold 3,000 mass during melodic line raids in Berlin , in 1942 .

This is theBoros Residence , a 32,000 substantial sand trap in Berlin that now plays emcee to the Boros and their kid , who live in a sprawling penthouse designed byJens Casper . In the video tour below , point out today byArchDaily , we receive the family and get a term of enlistment of their home , which include a massive amount of art , both contemporary and otherwise , let in a painting of Mary and Jesus have by the first Medici Pope ( it was “ believably too pornographic , so the Vatican deal it , ” says Christian ) .

ArchDaily ’s Gili Merin has more about the building ’s history :

In case of attack , the sand trap , with 180 cm ( six feet ) walls and a three metre ( nine feet ) bass ceiling , could house and protect 3,000 seat people distributed over five base . The intention by Karl Bonatz strictly accompany the guidelines of Albert Speer , the Third Reich ’s head architect and a member of Hitler ’s privileged circle . In the years following the fall of the Nazi regime , the bunker embraced varying function – from a tropic yield wearhouse ( known to locals as the “ Banana Bunker ” ) to the venue for concentrated - core fetish and techno parties in the 1990 ’s – until it was forced to shut down by the constabulary in 1995 .

If you ’re in Berlin , it seems as though the galleries in some of its 80 room are actuallyoften receptive to visitors , too .

We ’ve seen former air maraud trap converted into all personal manner of space over the past few years : In fact , in Hamburg , a former Nazi bunker wasjust reopened as a renewable get-up-and-go plant . Living inside one of these space , though , is whole different proposition . Would you consider it ? Tell me below . [ Freunde von Freunden;ArchDaily ]

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