Description
Access to buildings by means of double-height entry vestibules (“hotel atmosphere”). In the suspended mezzanine story, small apartments for the elderly with hallway entries. Elsewhere, double- and triple-loaded stairwells around open elevator and stair cores. Free plan layouts are possible since only the outer walls and shafts are load-bearing (21 different types of floor plans, additional changes by tenants also possible).
Generally: clear separation of living and sleeping zones, both always directly accessible from entrance hall. Organization of living room, kitchen, dining area always handled differently: kitchen between living and dining areas; separate kitchen with dining area in living room; linear kitchen with dining area at the end, parallel to living room; or central kitchen as focal point of plan, with access to balcony. The bedrooms are always lined up along a separate corridor, bath and WC are invariably separated. Each apartment has one or two, often large, balconies. Maisonettes, terrace apartments, and studios on roof level.
Lower levels of maisonettes have bedrooms, baths, kitchens, and an expanded double-height dining area (small living room). The stairs between bath and dining area open above into a long gallery leading to a large living room (or living/bedroom).
A number of sports and leisure facilities: on ground floor level laundry rooms, common rooms, and daycare center. Semi-public sun terraces, indoor pool, sauna and restaurant on roof level.
Drawings
Floor plan diagram, scale 1:500
Bldg. A, No. 5, floors 2-21: 4-, 1½-, and 3-room apts., scale 1:200
Bldg. A, No. 1, floors 2-21: 4-, 2-, and 3-room apts., scale 1:200
Bldg. A, No. 2, roof story: 3-room apts., scale 1:200
Bldg. C, No. 4, 24th floor: duplex apts. upper level, studio upper level, scale 1:200
Bldg. C, No. 4, floors 23: 4-room duplex apt., 2-room studio, 2-room apt., 1:200
Bldg. C, No. 1, floors 2-22: 4-, 1½-, and 3-room apt., scale 1:200
Photos
Aerial view of model
Visualization of building complex
Originally published in: Oliver Heckmann, Friederike Schneider (eds.), Floor Plan Manual Housing, fourth revised and expanded edition, Birkhäuser, 2011.