Construction area at Hamburg’s U5 City Nord station, between office buildings, with materials and a crane.

Infrastructure / Rail / Architecture

U5 East · Hamburg

Station architecture, design review and construction preparation for U5 East.

Hamburg, Germany

U5 City Nord construction, 2 September 2026. A later stage of the project; my work at HOCHBAHN ran from November 2023 to February 2024.Flor!an · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source

My roleProject Lead · Architecture & Stations

OrganisationHOCHBAHN U5 Projekt GmbH

My involvementNovember 2023 – February 2024

Scope of workStation fit-out · City Nord focus

01Project context

New stations for Hamburg.

U5 East brings station architecture, structural works and building systems together. At HOCHBAHN U5 Projekt GmbH, my focus was detailed design review and preparation for construction, particularly at City Nord.

The task

Station fit-out brings together structural, architectural and building-services design. Understanding their interfaces was essential to preparing the next stages of work.

02My responsibilities

The responsibilities described here were carried out within the named organisation and project team.

01
Reviewed construction drawings and design information for stations in the first section of U5 East.
02
Analysed site and construction conditions and prepared a construction-preparation document focused on City Nord.
03
Coordinated planning questions through project meetings with internal colleagues and external designers.

Methods & tools

Planning reviewConstruction logisticsMultidisciplinary coordination

Deliverables

Station-planning reviews and analysis of construction conditions.
A documented basis for construction preparation at City Nord.

Project images & drawings

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Project location

U5 Ost in context.

The first section links Bramfeld and City Nord through five stations, including the U1 interchange at Sengelmannstraße. The official network plan shows the geography; my responsibilities are described above.